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SHIFT: Polly Brant

Artist educator Polly Brant emphasises practice as lifelong learning in this short film, while discussing making publications, materiality through collaboration and dismantling barriers for working-class primary and secondary school students.

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SHIFT: g.a.d.o

Artist duo g.a.d.o. share their experiences as artists-in-residence in a rural German school, where they live and work on school grounds in collaboration with teachers and students.

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SHIFT: Louise Ashcroft

Multidisciplinary artist Louise Ashcroft discusses using comedy in their facilitation to enable honest, participatory, non-hierarchical teaching. 

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Studio Fellows: Kelsey Cruz-Martin

A deep-dive into the experience of a Fellow at Cardiff Metropolitan University.

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Studio Fellows: Jennie Bates

A deep-dive into the experience of a Fellow at Birmingham City University.

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Studio Fellows: Marly Merle

A deep-dive into the experience of a Fellow at Bath School of Art.

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Studio Fellows: Matthew Wilson

A deep-dive into the experience of a Fellow at Falmouth University.

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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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Studio Fellows: Désirée Coral

A deep-dive into the experience of a Fellow at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.

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Speaking Studios

Simeon Barclay, Emii Alrai, Vivian Ross-Smith and Samra Mayanja explore their relationships 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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Studio Fellows: Toby Rainbird

A deep-dive into the experience of a Fellow at University of Brighton.

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SHIFT: Jenny Eden

Artist and lecturer Jenny Eden offers practical advice on supporting students to develop ideas through the process of making.

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SHIFT: Joseph Doubtfire

A meditation on the collage-like role of the artist-teacher by artist and educator Joseph Doubtfire.

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Studio Fellows: Kirsty Bell

A deep-dive into the experience of a Fellow at Ulster University, Belfast.

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Studio Fellows: AJ Stockwell

A deep-dive into the experience of a Fellow at University of Dundee.

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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.

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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’.

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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: 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: 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’.

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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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