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Crafts Council Development Team Associate
Crafts Council Development Team Associate supporting talent through mentoring. It has been both a privilege and great fun sharing time with Hot House Maker Maria Jones aka kochi-kochi – seeing & supporting her journey. https://www.craftscouncil.org.uk
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The Clearing, bo.lee, London
The Clearing, a group exhibition of selected works by Sue Arrowsmith, Paul Fry, Philippa Lawrence and David Nash in celebration of bo.lee gallery’s ten year anniversary. Since opening in Bath in 2009, bo.lee has championed emerging and mid career artists alongside established names. At its core has always been an exploration of our relationship to…
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Spike Island Open Studios, 2019
An invitation to engage in a 1-2-1 conversation with studio holder Philippa Lawrence to: Discuss an artistic ambition or project? Gain advice on making, collaboration or opportunities? Talk about education, ideas, research studio culture or Something else? Philippa has considerable experience, as an artist, academic, coach & project manager, nationally and internationally. Book one of a limited…
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Materiality Disclosed Seminar
Materiality Disclosed Seminar, Hestercombe House 15th February 2019 This seminar explores the themes found in the exhibition, Materiality: provisional states Speakers include Irish poet, novelist and curator Cherry Smyth, who has written an essay for the exhibition catalogue which will be launched at this event. Artists Sarah Bennett, Megan Calverand Philippa Lawrence will also speak about their individual…
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Network for Creative Enterprise
NfCE participant and small grant award recipient. NfCE was a partnership between UWE Bristol , and Watershed, Watershed, who worked closely with The Guild (Coworking Bath), Knowle West Media Centre and Spike Island to support creatives across the West of England to make a sustainable living from their ideas. The programme offered residency opportunities with free space and a package of business…
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Materiality: Provisional States, Hestercombe Gallery
Sarah Bennett, Megan Calver and Philippa Lawrence have been directly engaged with Hestercombe House and Gardens over three years and the resulting exhibition has developed from these experiences. It features exhibits using a range of media from photography, sculpture to drawing and text. Collectively interested in issues related to labour and the management of landscape and nature, Materiality: provisional states aims to…
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BEING HERE & BEING THERE: PULLING THREADS
An Artist Book an illustrated essay drawn from extensive site research and consideration of concepts relating to the future of Hestercombe House, questions raised during a 3-year research period that culminated in the exhibition Materiality: Provisional States with Sarah Bennett and Megan Claver, November 2018 – February 2019. The essay examines site and place of…
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Whispering Colour, bo.lee, London
Whispering colour asks us to examine our learned and automatic responses to an inferred value system of colour and the essence of natural materials. Unified in their poetic commentary, and considered in their quest for harmony, these six artists make work that is lyrical and evocative in its aesthetic. An engagement with natural materials is…
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Disclosures & Dialogues in (im)materiality: Hestercombe Unfolds
A series of five dialogue events at Hestercombe House and Gardens, Taunton, Somerset entitled Disclosures and Dialogues in [im]materiality: Hestercombe Unfolds led by artists Megan Calver, Philippa Lawrence and Sarah Bennett, with Hestercombe’s Curator Tim Martin, Archivist Kim Legate, Head Gardener Claire Greenslade and Kate Best, Independent Curator. The aim of the series is to…
