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SHIFT: Jose Campos and Oliver Herbert

Artist teachers Jose Campos and Oliver Herbert discuss their teaching practices during lockdown; re-igniting experimentation while taking stock of 'the new normal' through using everyday materials in their remote lessons.

14-min watch
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Visualise: Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education

A landmark research commission and report on race and inclusion in art education in the UK.

185-min read
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Resist - Things Artists Do While Learning To Teach

A documentary follows a year in the collaborative project between the Institute of Education (University College London) and Freelands Foundation.

24-min watch
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SHIFT: Jess Gilbert

Artist-teacher Jess Gilbert discusses her methodologies for encouraging students to play, take risks and embrace the uncertainty of process-led learning.

12-min watch
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Should We Teach Art?

Responses by Juan Bolivar, Michele Gregson and Munira Mirza, chaired by Andy Ash.

71-min listen
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Thinking Making

A documentary that explores the work of Plymouth College of Art and its pioneering approach to art education.

29-min watch
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Edges of Edie Evans

A response to the practice of Edie Evans during their fellowship at Swansea College of Art. 

5-min read
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SHIFT: Katherine Smith

Artist Katherine Smith discusses her investigation into using materials as an interface for connection to the body. 

18-min watch
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Championing making practices in UK art schools

A reflection on five years of thinking, teaching and practicing painting in UK higher education by Freelands Foundation.

8-min read
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Art Schools, Place and Policy

A conversation about the impact of place and policy on teaching and art practice with Dr Silvie Jacobi and Dr Matthew Macaulay, chaired by Paul Haywood.

100-min listen
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SHIFT: Chris Francis

Secondary school art lead from Bournemouth and founder of @ArtPedagogy and @PhotoPedagogy Chris Francis reflects on his approach using the prompts ‘Culture and Concepts’, ‘Mischief and Meaning’ and ‘Authenticity and Actions’. 

13-min watch
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SHIFT: Nicola Hepworth

Artist teacher Nicola Hepworth discusses how her decades of teaching in secondary schools in London informs her painting practice, reflecting her students and wider community.

12-min watch
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Balancing Acts: Between Abstraction and Figuration

Drawing on his extensive career teaching on Foundation courses, Sean Kaye discusses how to teach painting by not teaching painting, and the relationship between the abstract and the representational.

59-min watch
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The Unteacher: Philip Guston and pedagogy as practice

A conversation on painter Philip Guston’s relationship to teaching practice with Sepake Angiama, Dana Clancy, and Alexis Harding, chaired by Ben Street. 

92-min listen
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SHIFT: Natasha Kidd & Jo Addison

Artists Natasha Kidd and Jo Addison reflect on their collaborative practice and the participatory performances that have constituted their ongoing project #InventoryofBehaviours.

12-min watch
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What if the environment was our teacher?

A student-led film documenting the Haberdashers’ Borough Academy project, led by artist Sean Roy Parker, to imagine an eco-responsive curriculum.

11-min watch
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SHIFT: Daniel T. Barney

Artist and educator Daniel T. Barney explores the productive 'misuse' of tools in an exploration of artistic teaching practices that go beyond traditional curricula to enable a pedagogy of play.

11-min watch
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SHIFT: Sadegh Aleahmad

Artist and educator Sadegh Aleahmad explores the discourse of ‘Decolonisation of Mind’, investigating its applications in his practice and its influence on his methodology for facilitating art workshops for primary school children.

11-min watch
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Lou Blakeway: Painting Her Stories

A response to the practice of artist and 2024 Freelands Studio Fellow Lou Blakeway during her fellowship at the University of Brighton.

6-min read
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SHIFT: Shepherd Manyika

Artist and educator Shepherd Manyika discusses the relationship between his roles as artist, university tutor and working in arts outreach, and the thoughts that arise for him when working with others, including collaboration, orientations and site.

23-min watch
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Rachel Wharton: Wishful Thinking

A response to the practice of artist and 2024 Freelands Studio Fellow Rachel Wharton during her fellowship at Belfast School of Art.

6-min read
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Painterly Perversions: Expansion as Translation

Magnus Quaife delivers a talk that explores the boundaries of painting and how it might be defined.

73-min watch
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SHIFT: Joanna Fursman

Artist educator and researcher Joanna Fursman reflects on how educators and students negotiate the complex relationship between educational spaces and art-making.

19-min watch
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Tia Maria Taylor Berry: Unquenchable Spirit

A response to the practice of artist and 2024 Freelands Studio Fellow Tia Maria Taylor Berry during her fellowship at Robert Gordon University.

5-min read