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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’. 

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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.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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
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Studios Make Artists: How Studios Can Support Artist Development

A conversation on how studios can support artists’ making, learning and professional practice with Colette Griffin, Dan Brown and Dr. Maggie Matić, chaired by Exodus Crooks.

79-min listen
transcript available (pdf)
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Pippa El-Kadhi Brown: A World Inside Out

A response to the practice of artist and 2024 Freelands Studio Fellow Pippa El-Kadhi Brown during her fellowship at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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SHIFT: Exodus Crooks

Artist and educator Exodus Crooks discusses how their research and experience as a freelance art educator has influenced their philosophy of art education, which centres care as a pedagogic practice.

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SHIFT: Jorge Lucero

Artist and educator Jorge Lucero describes his work as "making the material of schooling pliable". In this film, he sets out his theory that the 'pliability of school' comes through the practice of reading the traits, mechanisms, potential, and troubles of an institution.

19-min watch
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Dominic McKeown: An Echo in the Walls   

A response to the practice of artist and 2024 Freelands Studio Fellow Dominic McKeown during his fellowship at Bath Spa University.

5-min read
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SHIFT: Harold Offeh

Artist Harold Offeh discusses the role that collaboration plays within his practice, through the lens of three approaches including to ‘Co-operate’, ‘Co-Create’ and ‘Facilitate’.

20-min watch
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On Space

A conversation that examines the role of space in artistic practice with Graham Ellard, Pallas Citroen, Harold Offeh, and Anna Colin.

82-min listen
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Site: Where Paintings Happen and How

Artist and Director of Freelands Foundation, Henry Ward, speaks about his approach to painting, its relationship to site and the notion of process.

43-min watch
Mapping provision of arts subjects at 40 Primary Schools
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Researching the Arts in Primary Schools

A report summarising a three-year research commission by the University of Nottingham that examines the teaching of creativity in primary schools.

78-min read
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Organising Painting

Ian Hartshorne delivers a lecture that foregrounds the loss of valuable principles when discussing painting, and the importance of returning to these principles to restore painting as a legitimate discipline in its own right.

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The Idea of Art School

A talk by John Beck and Matthew Cornford investigating the history of British art schools.

56-min listen