Artist Influences

Guerra De La Paz sculptures inspired our U is for Unconventional workshop. Collaborative Cuban artists 'Guerra De La Paz' create sculptures out of unconventional colourful sculptures out of recycled clothing. They find inspiration in the ready-made and the archaeological qualities and significan

Paper available at: https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/11/artist-as-educator-examining-relationships-between-art-practice-and-pedagogy-in-gallery-context This paper looked at the relationship between art practice and education in galleries through discussion. It included int

We where lucky enough to have a teams meeting with the London-based artist Ruth Beale. Ruth is an artist who works collectively and collaboratively, exploring the way culture, governance and social discourse create society. Her practice includes socially-engaged processes, as well as drawing, pe

The Wild Swans Available at: https://www.terriwindling.com/blog/2019/06/the-folklore-of-nettles.html The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Anderson is a fairytale in which a princess has to save her brothers from an evil spell by spinning coats of nettles. She runs out of time due to the harm and injur

Holly White worked with other artists to make a 'film-in-a-day', inspired by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s practice of completing a painting in one day. Holly developed the ideas of fiction and movement in Lynette’s exhibition 'Verses After Dusk' and turned the park into a film set for a futuristic spac

The artists behind TC Trash Art are Rebecca Fatzinger and Cristina Maldonado. These artists collaboratively work together to build art out of discarded materials that they find along their local beach. Appalled by the way the beach was being treated, they decided to turn the found trash into art