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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 the variety or projects that we’ve worked on before setting up Flock below.

Urgency Arts Commissions

2019
Client: Arts and Culture at University of Exeter
Cultural Producer - Phil Rushworth

Flock worked with Arts and Culture at University of Exeter to produce three interdisciplinary arts commissions exploring the theme of Urgency:
Brave New World by Catherine Cartwright, used printmaking to explore the controversial use of automatic facial recognition technology and potential impact on public protest.
Future Proof you Body 01 by choreographer Joumana Mourad (IJAD Dance) experimented with virtual reality to explore the science behind the way we move how this technology could help us unlock our bodies’ potential.
In the Company of Insects, a collaboration between poet Fiona Benson and Sound artist Mai Bosworth produced a series of sound works encouraging us to celebrate and empathise with insects.

In the Company of Insects

Fiona Benson 2020 Arts Commission
Client: Arts and Culture, University of Exeter
Cultural Producer: Phil Rushworth

Continuing her 2019 ‘Urgency’ commission collaboration with Mair Bosworth, Fiona Benson, In the Company of Insects continues to explore the urgency inherent in an insect’s short lifespan, as well as the urgency of the environmental crisis and shrinking biodiversity.
In the Autumn and Winter of 2019 and 2020, Fiona led a range of poetry workshops with the public, including school children, families, students, poets and non-poets. She also continued her own research, talking to entomologists and other experts.
The culmination of the commission is an online audio pamphlet of Fiona’ poems and a selection produced in the workshops, with sound pieces produced in collaboration with Mair Bosworth and Eliza Lomas

Plymouth Art Weekender

Flock South West have been the coordinators & community engagement producers for Plymouth Art Weekender for 2019 and 2020

Plymouth Art Weekender is a three day contemporary art festival that takes place throughout the city each September. Organised by Visual Arts Plymouth CIC, The Weekender showcases a wide and diverse range of free events and exhibitions by artists from near and far; from large scale exhibitions to interventions in public spaces and participatory events. Growing year upon year, PAW has been made possible with generous support from sponsors, Plymouth City Council, partner art organisations in the city and project grant funding from Arts Council England.

Client: Visual Arts Plymouth

2019:
Lucy Stella Rollins, Phil Rushworth, Rhys Morgan, Tim Mills - Coordination
Rachel Dobbs - Community Engagement production

2020:
Lucy Stella Rollins, Phil Rushworth - Coordination
Rachel Dobbs - Community Engagement production

Photo credit: Dom Moore

Creative Fellowships

2019-2020
Client: Arts and Culture at University of Exeter
Cultural Producers - Phil Rushworth, Lucy Rollins, Hannah Jones

Arts and Culture Creative Fellowships at the University of Exeter offer creative practitioners the opportunity to engage with innovative research across the University’s colleges and campuses. Rather than being a ‘residency’ where an artist produces work for a host that assumes the context of audience, these opportunities are described as placements, where the cultural practitioner is a peer, producing creative outputs that support and enrich the core activity of the host

The 2019/2020 placements were: Choreographer Lea Anderson with the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, musician Domenico Vicinanza with the V-Simulator facility and Vibration Engineering/ Human Movement Science and artist Alex Julyan with the European Centre for Environmental Health and Health and Environment Public Engagement Group.

TESTING GROUND 2013, DISAPPEARING INTO ONE

2013 at Zabludowicz Collection
Co-curated by Lucy Stella Rollins (with Sasha Burkhanova, Louise Chignac, Karina Dar Juan, Iben Elmstrøm, Stephanie Neoh, Helena Palomero Gorrindo, Emily Purser, Ravian van den Hil and Jiaxue Zhang

Artists: Ulla Von Brandenburg, Laura Buckley, Susan Collis, Michael Dean, Ryan Gander, James Ireland, Alicja Kwade, Edgar Leciejewski, Nobuaki Onishi, Kaz Oshiro, Damien Roach, Erin Shireff, Keith Tyson, and Guido Van Der Werve from the Zabludowicz Collection along with Nicole Bachmann, Andrej Bako, g.bridle, Lindsay Seers, Luuk Schröder and Oliver Lee Terry

Photos courtesy of the Zabludowicz Collection