Resilience Project

With support from Arts Council England (and funded by players of the Lottery – thank you!), Art Work Exeter ran an ambitious programme of online engagements across our social media platforms.
We commissioned activity on the theme of ‘personal development’, for members of the cultural community.

Podcasts – with artists chatting to other creative people in other places about what keeps them going, what they are eating and how Covid-19 has affected their practice are here and on the new devon.stream

Lee Morgan(PRSD) talking to Beth from Creeping Expansion about working class young people’s writing
Kelly Lloyd speaking with Fiona Reilly about resilient practices in current arts funding landscape.
Pablo Paillole and Wingshan Smith – Mapping Millennial Struggles: Hope for Young People in the Arts?
Stuart Crewes talks about An Ever-Moving Now with Rosie Sherwood
Contemporary musician Emma Welton ‘walks with’ Composers Makoto Nomura and Mari Satomura
Emma Welton’s Sound Walk with and for people with Autism
Shelley LeFleur hangs with The Glitter Queen
Annemarie Bălă and Mihaela Drăgan talk Roma Futurism
Mary Morris from Arvon chats with novelist Max Porter about ‘The Pagan in the Corner’

Workshop videos from artists and talks are here:

Nadine Mahoney – How to make paint.
Huhtamaki Wab – Edible Human
James Bond Playfulness, Resourcefulness, Togetherness
Anne Jackson – THE WITCHCRAFT SERIES: HISTORY, MAGIC & METAPHOR
Simon Whetham – Sound Environment

Thank you to all participating artists and those who came along and took part from home.

Logo and project design by Amani Ridd: https://www.behance.net/amaniridd https://www.instagram.com/amanigraphics

Our instagram engagements were managed by artist Monica Shanta-Brown, on the theme of #InspirationsForResilience with a second set for the Pelican Project, delivered by Fliss Shillingford.