Hay Festival
Jon created two giant 2×2x2m cubes, a smaller cube, two 1×2m panels and twenty A1 sized panels for the Hay Festival. The Hay Festival happens each year in the town of Hay-on-Wye in Wales.
Anyone could come along to the Sky Arts dome where the cubes were and color them in, completing the work how they saw fit. If you were amongst the first 200 people to come and color in each day you got an exclusive tote bag designed by Jon too, for free. The pens for the event were kindly provided by Posca.
Writes Jon:
The nice thing about this project, other than getting paid of course, was that lots of different types of people really got into it. Young and old and very old all seemed to enthusiastically colour in my work. Some diligently stayed within the lines but others, probably free-spirited types, fancied scrawling and scribbling over everything to make their mark. There were no rules to how people responded to the work, so even though some bits of the cube really got heavily covered in Posca pen ink, it was allowed. It was interesting for me to see how people coloured in and drew over my work as it was, of course, very different to how I would of done it. Lots of it looked excellent too.
Whilst I was drawing on the cubes people wanted to colour them in, even though I wanted to finish the drawing first. The Sky people had to make these signs and cordon off the area I was drawing in with rope barriers. But people still couldn’t wait and lent over the barriers to try and sneak some colouring in. Maybe they couldn’t read the signs, so much for it being a literary festival…
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