The Starbeck community has created a mosaic dedicated to supporting mental health after three young people from the area died from suicide last year.
Starbeck Post Office has funded and erected the large mosaic for a wall on Camwal Terrace, Harrogate. The mural reads ‘Mental Health Matters’ and is surrounded by brightly coloured tiles.
Postmaster Andrew Hart, who runs the Red Box in Starbeck commissioned the artwork. He said:
“The mosaic remains our tribute to the memory of three young people the community lost.”
The Red Box Starbeck
The artwork was commissioned from Artizan International and created by Liz Cluderay, director of Artizan’s cafe and creative space in Harrogate. Ms Cluderay and her students set to work creating the art piece last summer.
Ms Cluderay said:
“It took us a number of weeks to complete it is a huge project, now it is up it looks tiny but it was huge. All of the Artizan community got involved in the art, from the design to completion.
“The students especially liked the messiness of grouting. It is really important for disabled artists to be recognised by the public for their work and to beat stereotypes.
“We were grateful to be commissioned by The Red Box, the mental health mosaic is an important topic and it was good for us to have important conversations about mental health with our disabled artists. It is good to raise awareness so they can be aware of their own mental state, often disabled people can feel isolated but this opened up important communication.”
Liz Cluderay and Andrew Hart
Starbeck Post Office commissioned a large mosaic rainbow for the same wall, which Henshaw’s created. The rainbow mosaic is dedicated to local medical staff, carers and key workers who worked during covid.
Then last year a mural of Bees for the High Street was commissioned, dedicated to the king’s coronation. It was painted by Sam Porter of Muralminded.
Starbeck rainbow mosaic
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Sneak peek: Colourful charity crafts store opens in Harrogate
With a story behind each and every product on the shelves, a colourful new charity shop is preparing to open its doors in Harrogate tomorrow.
Artizan International’s debut store on Oxford Street will sell crafts made by disabled people from the UK, Peru and Ecuador.
The charity, which was previously known as Craft Aid International, was founded by Susie Hart when she returned to Harrogate from Tanzania 10 years ago.
The shop sells bright cushions, lampshades, jewellery, headbands and more made by disabled people. The charity trains them in crafts and gives them a living through the sales.
A new shop in Harrogate on Oxford Street in the former Harrogate Hub.
Picking up a pair of pink earrings off the shelf, Ms Hart explained to the Stray Ferret how the charity changes lives:
“They were made by a young man in Peru called Steven who uses a wheelchair. He had never had a job before and had never been able to support his girlfriend. Things were really desperate for him before he joined us.”
The pink earrings made by Steven.
The new shop on Oxford Street is the former home of Harrogate Hub, which no longer needed the space so offered it to Artizan at half the price.
When an anonymous donor heard about this, they stepped in with £200,000 to help Artizan buy the building.
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Juggling the new shop with the charity’s existing work has been a huge challenge over the last few months.
The coronavirus lockdown meant all of the craft sessions and tutorials abroad and at home needed to stop or move online.
Bright and colourful headbands on the shelves.
It also meant all of the Artizan teams in Peru and Ecuador had to stop production. They still have some stock leftover from before the pandemic but Harrogate Scrubbers also stepped in to help fill the shelves.
Artizan plans to open a cafe in the building at the start of next year staffed solely by people with hearing disabilities.
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Artisan market set to return to MashamMasham’s artisan market is set to make a comeback.
The town’s parish council this week approved plans to bring it back after locals called for a return. The last farmer’s market was August 2019.
The market is expected to take place on the second Sunday of each month from April to September next year.
Councillors will now listen to the proposals of local traders before giving the official go ahead.
It will have stalls selling farmers’ produce as well as other items. Masham already has Wednesday and Saturday markets.
Masham’s Wednesday markets are often busy with visitors looking to buy local produce.
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Councillor Ian Johnson said:
“Yes, we have passed it for next year in the summer season. It’ll mainly be the traders who will organise it, they think they can find a few traders in farm produce and artisan items so it sounds good.
“Our Saturday market is always popular. This weekend we have about 20 stalls so hopefully the new one will be a success too.”