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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: Jennie Bates

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

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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: 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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Studio Fellows: AJ Stockwell

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

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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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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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