Exodus Crooks is a British-Jamaican artist currently working between Birmingham and Kingston. They have been an educator for the last six years and an artist for as long as they can remember, formally studying art throughout high school and college before pursuing graphics at university.
Andee Collard is a visual artist based in Bolton. He embraces the cross-pollination of ideas and techniques working across media, processes and genres. Collard’s artistic approach combines aspects of painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, design, coding, engineering, writing and education.
Jennie Guy is an artist, curator, writer, public art consultant and educator based in Dublin. Through these different roles, her work embraces textual, visual, performance and event-based output, initiating both formal and informal collaborations and environments.
For our August SHIFT in place of a film, we have invited contributors to this year’s video series to recommend a text for our summer reading list. Find out more and read the full list here.
Joanna Fursman is an artist educator and researcher who lives and works in the West Midlands. She makes work exploring the interactions between materials, objects and bodies, using photography and film to explore how these interactions emerge in education spaces.
As a duo, Professor Melissa Bremmer and Professor Emiel Heijnen lead the Research Group Arts Education at Amsterdam University of the Arts, the Netherlands. In this film, they discuss the historic, artistic and educational background of their book Wicked Arts Assignments: Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education.
Sarah Christie is an artist and educator working mostly in clay and drawing, who teaches on the BA Ceramic Design course at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London.
Shephard Manyika discusses being an artist, a university tutor and working in arts outreach, and how he sees the relationship between these three roles.
Since 2018 Michael Crowe has run ‘Spaghetti Club’, an after-school class at Grasmere Primary School, London. Michael also publishes artists’ books on topics such as video games, bum poems and psychic farce and works as a contemporary dance consultant.
Artist Katherine Smith discusses her investigation into using materials as an interface for connection to the body. Katherine is a performance artist and sculptor who also works with children in hospitals, galleries and other community settings.