The whole Caylus project is dedicated to the wonderful characteristic Caylus Potter Michel Carriquiry who with his family helped so kindly with the project at a time when they were going through great hardship.

I was invited by John McNortonand Grete Hayward of Arts Culture Education (ACE) to organise and run a firing project in the village where ACE is located, Caylus, near Carcasonne airport in the south of France. The main emphasis of the project was to hold an event and workshops for the whole community to participate in or view in the centre of the village - La Place de la Marie. The Mayor of Caylus agreed to part fund the project together with ACE. The project acted as an event to draw public attention to ACE and to the Drawing Research Action Workshop (DRAW) also located within Caylus in a beautiful 12/13th C building. However rather than running a project in which a version of the DRAW buidling was constructed and fired, it was felt that The Jean-Baptiste church should be fired instead as it is such a focal point for the community and is such a glorious building. The church connects well with the creativy and light of a kiln, and it was felt that there was great potential to hold workshops centred around making angels that could be fired within the transformative heat of the church kiln.

The Jean-Baptiste chuch is a 16th Century building with a rich history, and currently holds a crucifiction sculpture by the sculptor Zadkine.

The above images describe the project. Photographer Peter Dibdin documented the project. He then presented images and movies of the projects development as part of the artwork during the final event. All images are the copyright of Peter Dibdin. To contact Peter Dibdin please email him at info@peterdibdin.com

A huge thanks to all the lovely people who helped on drawing breath building light. Without them it would definitely not have happened.