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Flock
South West
What we do
Flock South West can provide a variety of production services for organisations, artists, and communities. This ranges from individual art works and one off events to larger festivals, exhibitions, and programmes of work. We can deliver the whole project or offer consultation, advice or time in areas you need a bit more support.
Between our directors and associates we have the skills to support every aspect of developing and delivering arts projects, including: project management, curating, marketing, budget management, fundraising, interpretive writing, administration, technical support, documentation, logistics, community engagement, and evaluation.
You can explore Flock's current and past project, as well as the variety or projects that we’ve worked on before setting up Flock below.
We Will
British Art Show 9 Plymouth Creative Programme, 2022
Client: British Art Show 9 Plymouth partners
Development and production
WE WILL is a creative programme pairing artists with different groups in the city to make art in response to the British Art Show 9.
Plymouth-based artist William Luz worked with Barnardo’s Multicultural Stay and Play Group which brings families and pre-school children who have English as an additional language together once a week to play and access support to make a large scale paper work inspired by important everyday items.
Sound artist and musician Jodie Saunders worked with members of OUTYouth Plymouth to explore sound, recording and the theme of ‘imagining new futures’ to create a new sound work in response to Oliver Beer’s work.
Families from the Devon Ukrainian Association worked with Faye, Caroline Deeds and Simon Paulter to use mobile phones to create animations and short films. They’ve been inspired by Andy Holden’s installation at The Box which features hundreds of ceramic cats that were left to him by his grandmother.
Printmaker Lorna Rose worked with service users from Devon and Cornwall Refugees Support (DCRS), which provides advocacy, advice, support and a welcoming communal space for asylum seekers in the region. Members of its walking group and art group have joined Lorna on a series of walks to the city’s BAS9 venues, using street printing and collage to explore the environment around them and capture the everyday.
We also invited performer, poet and facilitator Charice Bhardwaj to deliver a digital storytelling workshop for art students and local people who are acting as Ambassadors for British Art Show 9. The group became ‘roving reporters’, creating short videos and social media reports about the exhibition. We’ll be sharing their reports in our stories, but look out for the hashtag #bas9rovingreporters.
Production: Sophie Mellor and Phil Rushworth
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.
Image: Service users of the Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support during a workshop with Lorna Rose. Photo by Dom Moore
Image description: Two men are standing by a lampost on the street, making a rubbing of the 3D plaque with paper and a pastel.
Client: British Art Show 9 Plymouth partners
Development and production
WE WILL is a creative programme pairing artists with different groups in the city to make art in response to the British Art Show 9.
Plymouth-based artist William Luz worked with Barnardo’s Multicultural Stay and Play Group which brings families and pre-school children who have English as an additional language together once a week to play and access support to make a large scale paper work inspired by important everyday items.
Sound artist and musician Jodie Saunders worked with members of OUTYouth Plymouth to explore sound, recording and the theme of ‘imagining new futures’ to create a new sound work in response to Oliver Beer’s work.
Families from the Devon Ukrainian Association worked with Faye, Caroline Deeds and Simon Paulter to use mobile phones to create animations and short films. They’ve been inspired by Andy Holden’s installation at The Box which features hundreds of ceramic cats that were left to him by his grandmother.
Printmaker Lorna Rose worked with service users from Devon and Cornwall Refugees Support (DCRS), which provides advocacy, advice, support and a welcoming communal space for asylum seekers in the region. Members of its walking group and art group have joined Lorna on a series of walks to the city’s BAS9 venues, using street printing and collage to explore the environment around them and capture the everyday.
We also invited performer, poet and facilitator Charice Bhardwaj to deliver a digital storytelling workshop for art students and local people who are acting as Ambassadors for British Art Show 9. The group became ‘roving reporters’, creating short videos and social media reports about the exhibition. We’ll be sharing their reports in our stories, but look out for the hashtag #bas9rovingreporters.
Production: Sophie Mellor and Phil Rushworth
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.
Image: Service users of the Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support during a workshop with Lorna Rose. Photo by Dom Moore
Image description: Two men are standing by a lampost on the street, making a rubbing of the 3D plaque with paper and a pastel.
Seals'kin
Hanna Tuulikki, 2022
Client: KARST
Production
An improvised lamentation based on fragments of Scottish seal-calling songs, performed as part of British Art Show 9.
For as long as humans have inhabited the earth, we have shared the seas, coasts and islands with seals – web-footed mammals adapted to life in the water. In Scottish folklore, mythical seal people known as selkies were said to shed their skins and step from water as humans until mysteriously disappearing back to sea. Embedded within the folklore are a number of musical traditions that appear to blur the line between human and grey seal, including melodies which imitate their plaintive sounds and haunting seal-calling songs sung to attract seals to the shore.
Production: Lucy Elmes, Phil Rushworth, Katy Richardson
Marketing and production support: Tilly Craig
Seals’kin in Plymouth was delivered by KARST as part of British Art Show 9 and with support from Paul Mellon Centre.
Image: Seals'kin performance by Hanna Tuulikki at Devil's Point, November 13th 2022. Photo by Dom Moore.
Image Description: Hanna Tuulikki, a blonde haired white woman in a dark waterproof jacket and hat faces the water, her mouth is open as she sings. Behind her deveral other people are also singing.
Client: KARST
Production
An improvised lamentation based on fragments of Scottish seal-calling songs, performed as part of British Art Show 9.
For as long as humans have inhabited the earth, we have shared the seas, coasts and islands with seals – web-footed mammals adapted to life in the water. In Scottish folklore, mythical seal people known as selkies were said to shed their skins and step from water as humans until mysteriously disappearing back to sea. Embedded within the folklore are a number of musical traditions that appear to blur the line between human and grey seal, including melodies which imitate their plaintive sounds and haunting seal-calling songs sung to attract seals to the shore.
Production: Lucy Elmes, Phil Rushworth, Katy Richardson
Marketing and production support: Tilly Craig
Seals’kin in Plymouth was delivered by KARST as part of British Art Show 9 and with support from Paul Mellon Centre.
Image: Seals'kin performance by Hanna Tuulikki at Devil's Point, November 13th 2022. Photo by Dom Moore.
Image Description: Hanna Tuulikki, a blonde haired white woman in a dark waterproof jacket and hat faces the water, her mouth is open as she sings. Behind her deveral other people are also singing.
FRONTPAGE/BACKPAGE/CENTREFOLD
2022
Developed and Delivered in Partnership with CAMP
FRONTPAGE/ BACKPAGE/ CENTREPAGE is a book work featuring selected artists from Cornwall and Devon.
Developed in response to the British Art Show 9 in Plymouth FRONTPAGE/BACKPAGE/CENTREFOLD is an opportunity to celebrate the variety of amazing artists who live and work in Devon and Cornwall. It was made available for free at BAS9 venues across the city during the exhibition.
Featuring work by:
Bettina Amtag
Ros Bason
Sovay Berriman
Katrina Brown
Erika Cann
Catherine Cartwright
Rachael Coward
Emma Digerud-White
John Elliot
Hannah Holford
Anna Harris
Jess Holland
Sophie Ingram
Mark Leahy
Leifang Collective: Phoebe Bray and Katie Platts
Thaïs Lenkiewicz
LOW PROFILE
Daniel Philips
QUIETBRITISHACCENT
Katy Richardson
Stuart Robinson
Janet Sainsbury
Camilla Stacey
Tom Stockley
Emma Saffy Wilson
Work was selected from an open call out, asking artists to submit ‘work for the page’ with a prize for the front, back and centrefold pages.
Produced by: Sophie Mellor and Phil Rushworth
Assistant producer: Ashanti Hare
Design by: Intercity Design
Made possible and kindly supported by:
Plymouth Culture, Plymouth Octopus Project, Arts and Culture at University of Exeter, Visual Arts South West, Arts University Plymouth, Exeter Pheonix, CAST, Visual Arts Plymouth, CAMP & Flock.
Developed and Delivered in Partnership with CAMP
FRONTPAGE/ BACKPAGE/ CENTREPAGE is a book work featuring selected artists from Cornwall and Devon.
Developed in response to the British Art Show 9 in Plymouth FRONTPAGE/BACKPAGE/CENTREFOLD is an opportunity to celebrate the variety of amazing artists who live and work in Devon and Cornwall. It was made available for free at BAS9 venues across the city during the exhibition.
Featuring work by:
Bettina Amtag
Ros Bason
Sovay Berriman
Katrina Brown
Erika Cann
Catherine Cartwright
Rachael Coward
Emma Digerud-White
John Elliot
Hannah Holford
Anna Harris
Jess Holland
Sophie Ingram
Mark Leahy
Leifang Collective: Phoebe Bray and Katie Platts
Thaïs Lenkiewicz
LOW PROFILE
Daniel Philips
QUIETBRITISHACCENT
Katy Richardson
Stuart Robinson
Janet Sainsbury
Camilla Stacey
Tom Stockley
Emma Saffy Wilson
Work was selected from an open call out, asking artists to submit ‘work for the page’ with a prize for the front, back and centrefold pages.
Produced by: Sophie Mellor and Phil Rushworth
Assistant producer: Ashanti Hare
Design by: Intercity Design
Made possible and kindly supported by:
Plymouth Culture, Plymouth Octopus Project, Arts and Culture at University of Exeter, Visual Arts South West, Arts University Plymouth, Exeter Pheonix, CAST, Visual Arts Plymouth, CAMP & Flock.
PEOPLE
2022
Artists: LOW PROFILE
Production, marketing and community outreach
PEOPLE (Plymouth) is a new artwork by LOW PROFILE, celebrating people who volunteer their time in our city’s communities to make Plymouth great.
In July 2022 they will bring hundreds of people together in a mass gathering of volunteers on Plymouth Hoe, standing in line to spell out the word PEOPLE, and to create a new commemorative photograph of this event.
Production: Phil Rushworth
Marketing: Tilly Craig
Outreach and recruitment: Hannah Pollard
Image credit: LOW PROFILE, 2022 photograph by Jay Stone
Image description: An arial photo of Plymouth Hoe, where people are lined up to spell the word 'people' on the tarmac. The city and the war memorial are visible in the background.
Artists: LOW PROFILE
Production, marketing and community outreach
PEOPLE (Plymouth) is a new artwork by LOW PROFILE, celebrating people who volunteer their time in our city’s communities to make Plymouth great.
In July 2022 they will bring hundreds of people together in a mass gathering of volunteers on Plymouth Hoe, standing in line to spell out the word PEOPLE, and to create a new commemorative photograph of this event.
Production: Phil Rushworth
Marketing: Tilly Craig
Outreach and recruitment: Hannah Pollard
Image credit: LOW PROFILE, 2022 photograph by Jay Stone
Image description: An arial photo of Plymouth Hoe, where people are lined up to spell the word 'people' on the tarmac. The city and the war memorial are visible in the background.
Give & Takeover commissions
2022
Client: MIRROR, the gallery at Plymouth College of Art
Production, marketing and audience development
To launch MIRROR’s Give & Takeover programme strand, MIRROR commissioned three South West based artists to respond to the 2022 exhibitions programme.
Molly Erin McCarthy, Dan Guthrie and Rhys Morgan were each been paired with an exhibition/artist in the MIRROR programme, and each took a different approach to responding to what a Give & Takeover intervention can be.
For Give & Takeover, Molly Erin McCarthty created a series of augmented reality (AR) filters. These AR vignettes showcase landmarks and objects from Artificial Ruin, a speculative fiction world based on the Rame Peninsula (which is known as The Forgotten Corner of Cornwall).
Dan Guthrie is developing a new body of work investigating historical and contemporary Black presences and mis-presences in his hometown of Stroud, working across moving image, sculpture and writing. He is looking forward to presenting elements of this at MIRROR in dialogue with Huma Mulji’s upcoming South West Showcase exhibition.
Rhys Morgan will be bringing together members of the LGBTQIA+ community in the South West to form a queer Sea Shanty choir to write and perform a contemporary queer response to the traditional song form. Exploring the idea of community identity and cultural heritage, Rhys is drawing on his experience as a queer person growing up in coastal settings to create a work which disrupts these traditions, so as to find commonality between lived experiences.
The Give & Takeover commission series has been funded by Arts Council England with the support of National Lottery players.
Production: Phil Rushworth
Marketing and Audience Development: Sophie Mellor and Tilly Craig
Image credit: FENTEN (Well), DREHEVEL (Construct), TEVYANS (Growth) Molly Erin McCarthy, 2022.
Image description: A set of three portrait images of black and green digital 3D structures overlaid onto photos of real locations. From left to right: a 3D building or structure with a pitched roof and an arched doorway, a small wiry plant with lots of leaves growing out of black polygon rocks and a black floating curved grid (like a metal grate) with a long green vine hanging down.
Client: MIRROR, the gallery at Plymouth College of Art
Production, marketing and audience development
To launch MIRROR’s Give & Takeover programme strand, MIRROR commissioned three South West based artists to respond to the 2022 exhibitions programme.
Molly Erin McCarthy, Dan Guthrie and Rhys Morgan were each been paired with an exhibition/artist in the MIRROR programme, and each took a different approach to responding to what a Give & Takeover intervention can be.
For Give & Takeover, Molly Erin McCarthty created a series of augmented reality (AR) filters. These AR vignettes showcase landmarks and objects from Artificial Ruin, a speculative fiction world based on the Rame Peninsula (which is known as The Forgotten Corner of Cornwall).
Dan Guthrie is developing a new body of work investigating historical and contemporary Black presences and mis-presences in his hometown of Stroud, working across moving image, sculpture and writing. He is looking forward to presenting elements of this at MIRROR in dialogue with Huma Mulji’s upcoming South West Showcase exhibition.
Rhys Morgan will be bringing together members of the LGBTQIA+ community in the South West to form a queer Sea Shanty choir to write and perform a contemporary queer response to the traditional song form. Exploring the idea of community identity and cultural heritage, Rhys is drawing on his experience as a queer person growing up in coastal settings to create a work which disrupts these traditions, so as to find commonality between lived experiences.
The Give & Takeover commission series has been funded by Arts Council England with the support of National Lottery players.
Production: Phil Rushworth
Marketing and Audience Development: Sophie Mellor and Tilly Craig
Image credit: FENTEN (Well), DREHEVEL (Construct), TEVYANS (Growth) Molly Erin McCarthy, 2022.
Image description: A set of three portrait images of black and green digital 3D structures overlaid onto photos of real locations. From left to right: a 3D building or structure with a pitched roof and an arched doorway, a small wiry plant with lots of leaves growing out of black polygon rocks and a black floating curved grid (like a metal grate) with a long green vine hanging down.
Artificialia: Fake Minerals & Fancy Plinths
2022
Artist: Bridgette Ashton
Production and marketing.
“A display case of what appear to be elaborately presented geological specimens, reveal themselves as imitations of mineral-like objects."
Exhibited at Newlyn Art Gallery, Lostwithial Muesum and Auction House in Redruth, all locations with important links to the history of Cornish mining and mineral collecting.
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. With additional support from Redruth Unlimited in partnership with FEAST, Historic England & Cornwall Council. With thanks to Newlyn Art Gallery; Lostwithiel Museum; Auction House Redruth; Plymouth College of Art and Flock South West.
Production: Lucy Elmes and Molly Erin McCarthy.
Marketing: Tilly Craig
Photo credit: Paul Mounsey
Image description: Four intricate handmade sculptures of fictional minerals on coordinating hand made plinths of different sizes. A variety of materials, form porcelain to cardboard, has been used to make them.
Artist: Bridgette Ashton
Production and marketing.
“A display case of what appear to be elaborately presented geological specimens, reveal themselves as imitations of mineral-like objects."
Exhibited at Newlyn Art Gallery, Lostwithial Muesum and Auction House in Redruth, all locations with important links to the history of Cornish mining and mineral collecting.
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. With additional support from Redruth Unlimited in partnership with FEAST, Historic England & Cornwall Council. With thanks to Newlyn Art Gallery; Lostwithiel Museum; Auction House Redruth; Plymouth College of Art and Flock South West.
Production: Lucy Elmes and Molly Erin McCarthy.
Marketing: Tilly Craig
Photo credit: Paul Mounsey
Image description: Four intricate handmade sculptures of fictional minerals on coordinating hand made plinths of different sizes. A variety of materials, form porcelain to cardboard, has been used to make them.
Before forming Flock, and outside of thier work here, our directors and associates worked on projects across the South West both with arts organisations and directly with artists. These include gallery exhibitions, off-site projects, festivals, conferences and artist residencies. We’ve put together a selection of these below.
RAME PROJECTS CIC
2019 onwards
Founded and co-directed by Beth Emily Richards, co-directed with Lucy Stella Rollins
Image: Landscape, Performance and Feminisms workshop by Natalie Raven
Image description: A small one story building with bown walls, a sloped black roof and a wide chimney in the middle is surrounded by long grass on a clear day. The front of the building has six windows blocked out wiht blakc pianted wood. In front of each window stands a figure drapes entirely in a pale covered sheet of cloth.
Founded and co-directed by Beth Emily Richards, co-directed with Lucy Stella Rollins
Image: Landscape, Performance and Feminisms workshop by Natalie Raven
Image description: A small one story building with bown walls, a sloped black roof and a wide chimney in the middle is surrounded by long grass on a clear day. The front of the building has six windows blocked out wiht blakc pianted wood. In front of each window stands a figure drapes entirely in a pale covered sheet of cloth.
THE ALBION WORKSHOP
2018 onwards
Community Accessible Wood Workshop in Mutley, Plymouth, Technical Co-Director Ryan Curtis
Image description: On wall in the interior of a building with white painted brick walls and a dark grey floor. Against the wall, and across the whole image, is a wooden workbench with racks of woodworking tools and a bench drill on top. There are two pin boards on the wall painted in bright block colours and two small, red fire extuinguishers are on the floor at the bottom left of the image.
Community Accessible Wood Workshop in Mutley, Plymouth, Technical Co-Director Ryan Curtis
Image description: On wall in the interior of a building with white painted brick walls and a dark grey floor. Against the wall, and across the whole image, is a wooden workbench with racks of woodworking tools and a bench drill on top. There are two pin boards on the wall painted in bright block colours and two small, red fire extuinguishers are on the floor at the bottom left of the image.
REVERBERATIONS
2019 - 2020 for Take A Part
Devised, developed and delivered by Beth Emily Richards with Gem Ward
Beyond Face Teats Hill Amphitheatre commission,
Photo by Rosie Bowery
Image description: A photo looking down a gravel pathway towards a small round, stone amphitheatre set into the grass in front of Plymouth habour. Nine people of varying ages and heights stand in a line in the middle of the amphitheatre. Three people sit on the stone stepped edge of the amphitheatre with a golden retreiver, to the right of the image, facing away from the camera and towards the standing people. Closer to the camera, and to the left of the image, a person in a yellow hooded jumper, blue jacket and jeans stands with their back to camera. there is a small brown dog at their feet.
Devised, developed and delivered by Beth Emily Richards with Gem Ward
Beyond Face Teats Hill Amphitheatre commission,
Photo by Rosie Bowery
Image description: A photo looking down a gravel pathway towards a small round, stone amphitheatre set into the grass in front of Plymouth habour. Nine people of varying ages and heights stand in a line in the middle of the amphitheatre. Three people sit on the stone stepped edge of the amphitheatre with a golden retreiver, to the right of the image, facing away from the camera and towards the standing people. Closer to the camera, and to the left of the image, a person in a yellow hooded jumper, blue jacket and jeans stands with their back to camera. there is a small brown dog at their feet.
KATIE SCHWAB - A WORKING BUILDING
2019 for The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art. Curated and produced by Hannah Jones and Leah Harris, Technical consultation and production by Ryan Curtis
THE ATLANTIC PROJECT: AFTER THE FUTURE
2018 for the Atlantic Project with Plymouth University and The Box
Produced by Phil Rushworth, Lucy Stella Rollins and Tim Mills, Technical support by Ryan Curtis, Llyr Davies and Andy Cluer
Fathom by Jane Grant and John Matthius
Photo credit: Dom Moore
Produced by Phil Rushworth, Lucy Stella Rollins and Tim Mills, Technical support by Ryan Curtis, Llyr Davies and Andy Cluer
Fathom by Jane Grant and John Matthius
Photo credit: Dom Moore
LAURA PHILLIPS - I FELT LIKE THE SOUND OF A HARP
2018 for The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art. Curated and produced by Hannah Jones and Leah Harris, Technical consultation and production by Ryan Curtis
ROSE WYLIE
2018 at Plymouth Arts Centre
Assistant Curator: Lucy Stella Rollins
Photo credit: Andy Ford
Assistant Curator: Lucy Stella Rollins
Photo credit: Andy Ford
JAMBOREE
2018 for LOW PROFILE
Marketing and Communication Production by Beth Emily Richards, Technical support by Ryan Curtis
Silent Swimming by Simon Lee Dicker
Marketing and Communication Production by Beth Emily Richards, Technical support by Ryan Curtis
Silent Swimming by Simon Lee Dicker
SOCIAL MAKING: SOCIALLY ENGAGED PRACTICE NOW AND NEXT
2016, 2018 and 2020 for Take A Part
by Beth Emily Richards
Photo credit: Gem Ward
by Beth Emily Richards
Photo credit: Gem Ward
WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE WORK: CIARRA PHILLIPS
2017 at Plymouth Arts Centre
Assistant Curator: Lucy Stella Rollins
Photo credit: Andy Ford
Assistant Curator: Lucy Stella Rollins
Photo credit: Andy Ford
LARRY ACHIAMPONG AND DAVID BLANDY
2017 at Plymouth Arts Centre
Assistant Curator: Lucy Stella Rollins
Photo credit: Sam Garwood
Assistant Curator: Lucy Stella Rollins
Photo credit: Sam Garwood
MIKE PERRY
2017 at Plymouth Arts Centre
Assistant Curator: Lucy Stella Rollins
Photo credit: Sam Garwood
Assistant Curator: Lucy Stella Rollins
Photo credit: Sam Garwood
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