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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.

6-min read
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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.

17-min watch
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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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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
transcript available (pdf)
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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.

60-min watch
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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
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Why Painting Matters Now More Than Ever

Dougal Mckenzie talks about how his painting practice has developed over time, exploring the broader motivations and attitudes that drive the act the painting.

91-min watch
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Painting, Psychology and Simultaneity

Jenny Eden gives a chronological journey of her painting, exploring an interest in the therapeutic aspects of making art and the challenges of balancing painting and teaching.

57-min watch