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Reflecting on the role of the Freelands Awards in championing the importance of art education within the UK’s cultural life.
4-min read
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What is an Art Teacher?
A series with art teachers on their journey into learning how to teach in different environments, and maintaining their artistic practice.
32-min listen
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SHIFT: Joseph Doubtfire
A meditation on the collage-like role of the artist-teacher by artist and educator Joseph Doubtfire.
17-min watch
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Artists typically need four things to make work: space, time, money and dialogue.
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On Doughnuts and the 10%
A short essay by writer and curator George Vasey on how artists build resilience, connection and interdependency.
3-min read
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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’.
21-min watch
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Painting Education in UK Higher Education: 1950s until today
An essay contextualising changes in Painting Education through shifts in UK Higher Education Policy and Socio-economic settings, from the 1950s onwards.
16-min read
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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.
9-min watch
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On Art Writing: Exploring an Interdisciplinary Field
A conversation on the hybrid, plural practices of art writing with Gina Buenfeld-Murley, Rebecca Jagoe and Rosa-Johan Uddoh, chaired by Dr Laura Haynes.
59-min listen
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Art teachers should have the space to be rebellious
Artists Joanna Brinton and Freya Kehoe discuss reclaiming space, navigating school structures, embracing restriction, and allowing for testing and failure during their durational collaboration.
13-min read
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Learning Takes Place… in Artist Studios
Reflections on how the site of the ‘studio’ impacts an artist’s practice and supports their learning and development
9-min listen
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SHIFT: henry bradley
Performance art is absent from most mainstream art education; how could it impact the wider school ecology?
21-min watch
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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.
14-min watch
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Examining the Social in Practice
Jacqueline Donachie and Alistair Hudson, in conversation, with Catriona Whiteford, on the possibilities of collaboration between artist and institution, and moving beyond the limitations of 'art speak'.
6-min read
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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’.
18-min watch
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Why Artists Should Teach
A conversation on the relationship between teaching and artistic practice with Joseph Cartwright, Jenny Eden and Shepherd Manyika, chaired by Raksha Patel.
51-min listen
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SHIFT: Terri Newman
Artist, educator and researcher Terri Newman discusses her research into collaborative pedagogies in the art classroom.
9-min watch
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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.
7-min watch
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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.
16-min watch
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Visualising Art Education
Shade podcast presents a five-part series of conversations with art educators and practitioners that springboard the chapters of the Visualise report.
139-min listen
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ARTISTEACHER Toolkit
Guidance on facilitating experimentation and creative risk-taking within the classroom using 'Which Way is Up?', a set of imaginative prompts designed by Hannah Rennie and Shepherd Manyika with Cement Fields.
2-min read
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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.
11-min watch
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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.
22-min watch
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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.
7-min watch
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The Studio as a Site of Community and Collective Action
A conversation on the potential for studio spaces to contribute to a diverse and inclusive art world with Dr Charlotte Bonham-Carter, Dyana Gravina, Jane Morrow, and Rosalind Nashashibi.