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WE WILL
We Will is a British Art Show 9 engagement programme created by Flock South West. We Will is an exchange of ideas between the artists in the British Art Show and the people of Plymouth. Working with a range of Plymouth communities, We Will blurs the boundary between viewer and maker, with participants working with a variety of techniques, supported by regional artists, to produce their own work in response to BAS9.
MAKING THE EVERYDAY: WILLIAM LUZ AND FAMILIES FROM BARNARDOS MULTICULTURAL STAY AND PLAY GROUP
For Making the Everyday William Luz invited families from Barnardos Multicultural stay and play group to make a paper patchwork square celebrating an important item from their everyday life.
William assembled the squares into a giant patchwork quilt for alongside squares made during William’s October Half Term Artist Takeover sessions. The resulting work, Making Everyday Together, will be shown at The Box in November and December 2022.
Making the Everyday is inspired by the work of Katie Schwab
Photo courtesy of The Box
Photo courtesy of The Box
Photo courtesy of The Box
credit: Jodie Saunders and OUTYouth members
photo credit: Dom Moore
photo credit: Dom Moore
credit: Jodie Saunders and OUTYouth members
RECORDING THE EVERYDAY: JODIE SAUNDERS AND OUTYOUTH, PLYMOUTH
Sound artist and musician Jodie Saunders spent several weeks with members of the group, thinking about the main exhibition theme of ‘imagining new futures’ and experimenting with sound and sound recording.
The resulting sound collage, Spoiler Alert: Imagining New Futures is available online or by borrowing a headset from the Arts University Plymouth reception throughout November and December 2022 as part of MIRROR’s Give & Takeover programme.
Recording the Everyday was made in response to Oliver Beer's work.
ANIMATING THE EVERYDAY: FAYE, SIMON PAULSON AND FAMILIES FROM DEVON UKRAINIAN ASSOCIATION
Filmmaker Faye and artist Simon Poulter worked with families from the Devon Ukrainian Association, making a series of animations inspired by everyday objects.
The sessions created a ‘time out’ moment, where parents and their children, many of whom have just arrived in the UK from Ukraine, could become absorbed in creative making and enjoy the company of other families.
The animations will will be on display at The Box in February 2023.
Animating the Everyday was made in response to the work of Andy Holden'
photo: Dom Moore
photo: Dom Moore
photo: Dom Moore
photo: Dom Moore
photo: Dom Moore
photo: Dom Moore
photo: Dom Moore
photo: Dom Moore
WALKING THE EVERYDAY: LORNA ROSE AND DEVON AND CORNWALL REFUGEE SERVICE USERS
Artist Lorna Rose and service users from Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support have used street rubbings, gelli plate printing and collage to explore street shapes and textures on a series of walks around Plymouth. Nature and the patterns of the city feature in a range of prints made by the group. Walking and talking, and hanging out together over coffee and cake, whilst learning printing techniques from Lorna, provided a safe space for us for conversation and creativity, and the opportunity to hear about each other's lives.
The prints from Walking the Everyday will be on display at The Box in February 2023.
RECORDING THE UNUSUAL DAY: BRITISH ART SHOW 9 ROVING REPORTS
Recording the Unusual Day invited some of the BAS9 Plymouth Ambassadors and art students to become roving reporters, creating short videos and social media reports about aspects of the exhibition and surrounding events from their own perspective.
Charice Bhardwaj was invited to lead them in a workshop exploring storytelling for social media within the context of the themes of the British Art Show.
We have collected these reports in our Instagram story highlights
We Will has been commissioned for the British Art Show 9, a Hayward Touring exhibition delivered in partnership with The Box, KARST, The Arts Institute at the University of Plymouth and MIRROR at Arts University Plymouth.
WE WILL ARTISTS
CHARICE BHARDWAJ
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Charice Bhardwaj is a dynamic performer, poet and facilitator working across theatre, spoken-word and digital storytelling. Playfully bold, with sharp edges, she adores devising new works which attempt to explore sticky social topics with curiosity and punch. Recent pieces speak to anger, Michael Jackson and Queen Victoria’s obsession with collecting stuff. Charice is always drawn to the intersections of things, and loves finding ways to connect seemingly different worlds.
JODIE SAUNDERS
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Jodie Saunders is an artist/musician/support worker who explores sound as substance, alternative narratives and improvisation. They are interested in listening as an attentive, embodied and essential way of seeing/hearing/being.
LORNA ROSE
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Lorna Rose is a Creative Producer and printmaker whose work incorporates arts research alongside, designing and coordinating projects which elevate Black and Brown voices in the art field. Lorna uses her art practice as a catalyst for conversations about the nuances of the Black experience, visibility and Black joy. Working playfully, Lorna’s printmaking practice incorporates screenprinting, cyanotype and collage techniques to capture the everyday.
WILLIAM LUZ
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William Luz is an artist based in Plymouth whose practice explores drawing in an expanded sense through works on paper, print, ceramics and video with a focus on a process that aims to refer directly back to the act of making itself, the materiality of drawing and the performative nature of an artist’s work.
FAYE
Faye is Television Course Leader at the School of Film & Television, Falmouth University, having joined the University in 2016. Faye specialises in Cinematography, working as a Director of Photography on independent features, documentary projects and TV Drama.
SIMON POULTER
Simon Poulter is an artist and curator with a national profile in devising new work with creative technology. He has worked as a commissioned artist and curator with Watershed, FACT, AND Festival, Now Festival, Furtherfield, Knowle West Media Centre and Whitechapel Art Gallery.
WE WILL COMMUNITIES
BARNADO'S MULTICULTURAL STAY AND
PLAY GROUP
This group is for families and children 0-5 years with English as an additional language. The Multicultural group meet weekly to provide a safe and fun place for children under 5 and their families to play together and access support.
DEVON AND CORNWALL REFUGEE SUPPORT
Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support (DCRS) provide advocacy, advice, support, education and a welcoming communal space for asylum seekers in the region.
OUTYOUTH PLYMOUTH
Part of the Plymouth City Council, Community Connections Youth Team , OutYouth provides a safe, friendly and welcoming environment for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, trans, queer and questioning young people in Plymouth and the surrounding area. They aim to create opportunities where the young LGBTQ community can meet and make new friends, explore their identity, access support, build supportive networks, celebrate and have fun'
BRITISH ART SHOW 9 AMBASSADORS
British Art Show 9 Ambassadors are representatives from the local community who have been working with the BAS partners in Plymouth to explore themes from the main exhibition with their open communities.
DEVON UKRAINIAN ASSOCIATION
Devon Ukrainian Association was created in response to the current humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and is driven by their desire to help as many Ukrainian people as possible, those who need help in Ukraine and those who are coming to the UK on the Sponsorship Scheme.