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Speaking Studios

Simeon Barclay, Emii Alrai, Vivian Ross-Smith and Samra Mayanja explore their relationality to their studio spaces and the importance of the artist’s studio as a space for learning and a site for teaching. 

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Belonging in Practice: The Artist-Teacher Residency

A 2025 film by Kit Vincent exploring Dianne Minnicucci’s time as the resident artist-teacher at Thomas Tallis School. Part of Autograph’s Visible Practice Residency.

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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.

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SHIFT: henry bradley

Performance art is absent from most mainstream art education; how could it impact the wider school ecology?

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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.

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SHIFT: Terri Newman

Artist, educator and researcher Terri Newman discusses her research into collaborative pedagogies in the art classroom.

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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.

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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.

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SHIFT: A Particular Reality

Student/educator collective A Particular Reality (APR) discuss the themes underpinning their nuanced pedagogies by, with, and for marginalised and minoritised people.

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SHIFT: Michael Crowe

‘Take your time to make sure you get it wrong’ is the principle for the after-school class ‘Spaghetti Club’, explains Michael Crowe in this film describing the content and outcomes of the programme.

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SHIFT: Hannah Kemp-Welch

Sound artist Hannah Kemp-Welch presents aspects of her research into Sound Arts Practice, including exploring the role of listening as a social art practice and the tensions around participation, ownership and representation in socially engaged art.

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SHIFT: Melissa Bremmer & Emiel Heijnen

Melissa Bremmer and Emiel Heijnen discuss the philosophies behind their book Wicked Arts Assignments: Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education (2020), and how the assignment as artwork can help facilitate students’ creative processes.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Thinking Making

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

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SHIFT: Katherine Smith

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

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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