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Artist and lecturer Jenny Eden offers practical advice on supporting students to develop ideas through the process of making.
14-min watch
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Freelands Awards – Celebrating Art Education
Reflecting on the role of the Freelands Awards in championing the importance of art education within the UK’s cultural life.
4-min read
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Visualising Art Education
Shade podcast presents a five-part series of conversations with art educators and practitioners that springboard the chapters of the Visualise report.
139-min listen
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SHIFT: Joseph Doubtfire
A meditation on the collage-like role of the artist-teacher by artist and educator Joseph Doubtfire.
17-min watch
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Studio Fellows: Kirsty Bell
A deep-dive into the experience of a Fellow at Ulster University, Belfast.
5-min watch
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Marly Merle: Touching, over and over
A response to the material practice of artist Marly Merle during their 2025 fellowship at Bath Spa University.
6-min read
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What is an Art Teacher?
A series with art teachers on their journey into learning how to teach in different environments, and maintaining their artistic practice.
32-min listen
transcript available (pdf)
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Studio Fellows: AJ Stockwell
A deep-dive into the experience of a Fellow at University of Dundee.
5-min watch
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SHIFT: Alexander Costello
Artist, teacher and gallery owner Alexander Costello discusses his philosophy and practice of encouraging secondary school students to make up their own mind on what they want to make, and growing their confidence through displaying their work.
19-min watch
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Artists typically need four things to make work: space, time, money and dialogue.
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On Doughnuts and the 10%
A short essay by writer and curator George Vasey on how artists build resilience, connection and interdependency.
3-min read
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SHIFT: Jennie Guy
An exploration of Guy's curatorial project Art School, examined through readings from ‘Curriculum: Art Goes to School’.
21-min watch
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Painting Education in UK Higher Education: 1950s until today
An essay contextualising changes in Painting Education through shifts in UK Higher Education Policy and Socio-economic settings, from the 1950s onwards.
16-min read
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SHIFT: Paul Morrow
Artist and educator Paul Morrow issues a powerful call to action for educators to enact anti-ableist pedagogy in the art classroom, presenting an introduction to its liberatory ideas alongside practical tools for its application.
9-min watch
transcript available (pdf)
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On Art Writing: Exploring an Interdisciplinary Field
A conversation on the hybrid, plural practices of art writing with Gina Buenfeld-Murley, Rebecca Jagoe and Rosa-Johan Uddoh, chaired by Dr Laura Haynes.
59-min listen
transcript available (pdf)
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Art teachers should have the space to be rebellious
Artists Joanna Brinton and Freya Kehoe discuss reclaiming space, navigating school structures, embracing restriction, and allowing for testing and failure during their durational collaboration.
13-min read
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Learning Takes Place… in Artist Studios
Reflections on how the site of the ‘studio’ impacts an artist’s practice and supports their learning and development
9-min listen
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SHIFT: henry bradley
Performance art is absent from most mainstream art education; how could it impact the wider school ecology?
21-min watch
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SHIFT: Sarah Christie
Artist and educator Sarah Christie discusses her interdisciplinary work using clay as a means of facilitating different modes of observation – both artistic and scientific – through touch.
14-min watch
transcript available (pdf)
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Examining the Social in Practice
Excerpts from Jacqueline Donachie and Alistair Hudson in conversation on the possibilities of collaboration between artist and institution, and moving beyond the limitations of 'art speak'.
6-min read
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SHIFT: Matt Caldwell
A reflection on the application of socially driven pedagogical approaches in a nursery school context, including the 2019 project ‘The Nursery With No Toys’.
18-min watch
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Why Artists Should Teach
A conversation on the relationship between teaching and artistic practice with Joseph Cartwright, Jenny Eden and Shepherd Manyika, chaired by Raksha Patel.
51-min listen
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SHIFT: Terri Newman
Artist, educator and researcher Terri Newman discusses her research into collaborative pedagogies in the art classroom.
9-min watch
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SHIFT: India Harvey
Artist and researcher India Harvey explores how notions such as play can challenge perceptual and sensory hierarchies, opening up different ways of engaging with the world.
7-min watch
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West Rise, School by the Marsh
A documentary about West Rise Junior School in Eastbourne, which takes a hands-on, outdoors-oriented approach to learning, informed by the school’s location on the site of a Bronze Age settlement.