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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: 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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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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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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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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Painterly Perversions: Expansion as Translation

Magnus Quaife delivers a talk that explores the boundaries of painting and how it might be defined.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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