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Artist, researcher and educator Laura Yuile traces the educational, cultural and spatial conditions that have shaped her site-responsive pedagogy whilst working in Xiamen, China.
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SHIFT: Polly Brant
Through the lens of ‘art as common’, artist-educator Polly Brant discusses her collaborations with primary and secondary school students, and the central role of art in everyday life.
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Creative Break Time
A 2026 short film documenting a collaborative project designed to support the wellbeing and creative practices of teachers in Southend.
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SHIFT: g.a.d.o.
Artist duo g.a.d.o. share their experiences as artists-in-residence in a rural German school,where they liveand work on school grounds in collaboration with teachers and students.
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SHIFT: Louise Ashcroft
Multidisciplinary artist Louise Ashcroft discusses how the use of comedy techniques can enable honest, participatory, and non-hierarchical teaching in art education.
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Studio Fellows: Kelsey Cruz-Martin
A deep dive into the experience of a Freelands Studio Fellow at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
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Studio Fellows: Jennie Bates
A deep dive into the experience of a Freelands Studio Fellow at Birmingham City University.
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Studio Fellows: Marly Merle
A deep dive into the experience of a Freelands Studio Fellow at Bath School of Art.
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Studio Fellows: Matthew Wilson
A deep dive into the experience of a Freelands Studio Fellow at Falmouth University.
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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 as part of Autograph’s Visible Practice Residency.
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Studio Fellows: Désirée Coral
A deep dive into the experience of a Freelands Studio Fellow at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
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Speaking Studios
Artists Simeon Barclay, Emii Alrai, Vivian Ross-Smith and Samra Mayanja explore their relationships to their studios as spaces for learning and sites for teaching.
28-min watch
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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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SHIFT: Jenny Eden
Artist and lecturer in painting Jenny Eden offers practical advice on supporting students to develop ideas through the process of making.
14-min watch
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SHIFT: Joseph Doubtfire
A meditation on the collage-like role of the artist-teacher by artist and educator Joseph Doubtfire, cobbled together from the floor of the art classroom.
17-min watch
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Studio Fellows: Kirsty Bell
A deep-dive into the experience of a Freelands Studio Fellow at Ulster University, Belfast.
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Studio Fellows: AJ Stockwell
A deep-dive into the experience of a Freelands Studio Fellow at University of Dundee.
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SHIFT: Alexander Costello
Artist, teacher and gallery owner Alexander Costello discusses his philosophy and practice of encouraging secondary school students to make up their own mind on what they want to make, and growing their confidence through displaying their work.
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SHIFT: Jennie Guy
An exploration of Guy’s curatorial project Art School, examined through readings from ‘Curriculum: Contemporary Art Goes to School’.
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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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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: 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’.