SHIFT: A Particular Reality

A Particular Reality (APR) is a collective formed by students, alumni and educators from the Fine Art departments at Goldsmiths University of London, Kingston School of Art and Manchester Metropolitan University.

Building creative learning environments upon the values of equity and care, their work addresses experiences of racism, exclusion and isolation in arts education, university and careers. In this film, APR collectively presents key themes underpinning their nuanced pedagogies, centring and produced by, with and for marginalised and minoritised people.

Founded in 2018 by artists and educators Michelle Williams Gamaker and Jo Addison, APR has now grown in scale and scope, and across APR activities and institutions in the last 5 years they have facilitated over 150 events, with over 2000 students and alumni engaging as participants, co-producers and facilitators. APR has collaborated with numerous arts, cultural and education organisations including South London Gallery, Autograph, Gasworks, Tate Britain, BEAF, UAL: Camberwell and Thomas Tallis Secondary School. APR has also collaborated with a growing list of artists, academics and practitioners.

This film is part of SHIFT – Freelands Foundation’s seasonal series of short films spotlighting varied practices, approaches and philosophies within art education. 

All audiovisual material and research is courtesy of the artists.

Produced by Giulia Vandelli.

Captions and editing by Sixbetween.