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Artist and educator Dr Sadegh - Sepanta 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.
22-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 Ulster University, Belfast.
6-min read
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Painterly Perversions: Expansion as Translation
Artist Magnus Quaife on the boundaries of painting and how it might be defined.
43-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
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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.
56-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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SHIFT: Harold Offeh
Artist Harold Offeh discusses the role that collaboration plays within his practice.
20-min watch
transcript available (pdf)
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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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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
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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 in discussions of painting, and the importance of returning to these principles to restore painting as a legitimate discipline in its own right.
59-min watch
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The Idea of Art School
Writer and academic John Beck and artist and course leader Matthew Cornford investigate the history of British art schools.
37-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 of painting.
91-min watch
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SHIFT: Laura Wilson
Laura Wilson discusses the fluidity of developing her artistic practice through collaboration with everyday processes and people, from bakers and archaeologists, to choreographers and bricklayers.
20-min watch
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Painting, Psychology and Simultaneity
Jenny Eden gives a chronological journey of her painting, exploring the therapeutic aspects of making art and the challenges of balancing painting and teaching.