Interweave Arts create mini arts trail for Tamar Valley Peace Festival

Set to launch on Sunday, the collection was put together by Interweave Arts for this year’s Tamar Valley Peace Festival.

Visitors will be given a map to assist them locate the mini sculptures, which are hidden in the grounds surrounding Interweave’s studio.

Each item on the trail is contained in a perspex box, 10 centimetres in diameter and five centimetres high.

Everyone from students to Tamar Peace Trust members is represented in the works.

The mini trail consists of about 20 pieces, each reflecting the contributing artist’s interpretation of peace. 

Interweave Arts coordinator Kim Schneiders said the studio hoped to add more to the trail in the months following the peace festival. 

“The peace section will be launched on Sunday, but there will ultimately be a number of other sections that will be included in Mofo,” she said.

“We’ve been working on this section for the past three months, but the concept of a mini arts trail is something we have been looking at for the past two years.”

It’s going to be a busy month for the studio, which will host Remade on August 25.

The sustainable art show features catwalk fashions created from recycled and reusable materials. 

Themes for this year’s show include the colour blue, waterways, illumination, light and sound.

Ms Schneiders said Remade would soon have its own section on the mini arts trail.

“There is a role models category in Remade which features little miniatures that have been photographed,”  she said.

“We’ve 3D scanned the models to be be part of the mini arts trail, and for Mofo, we are planning on having little treasures.” 

Sunday will not be the first time Interweave Arts has displayed works in parts of the city. 

Last year the studio collaborated with City Heart and Cityprom to have street art put into Dicky White’s Lane.

Part of Cityprom’s city activation program, each of the pieces were completed on asphalt art with an aluminum and self-adhesive backing. 

Ms Schneiders said this year’s mini trail was about bringing the action closer to home.

“Given we live at the studio, we decided we would like to put a few more layers around Inveresk,” she said.

“This is something we will just keep expanding and playing with.

“Even when we were setting up the trail, we had people from the arts school come over and have a look.”