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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.
DRUMROLL
2020/ 2021
Artists: LOW PROFILE
Production, partnership development marketing support.
DRUMROLL is a new audio artwork composed for 8 drums, distributed online on New Years Eve (31 Dec 2020) as a shared (but distant) listening event.
DRUMROLL takes a simple, recognisable musical flourish (a drumroll) as a starting point and extends and expands this to create an evocative, engaging, immersive listening experience.
DRUMROLL (2020) made in collaboration with Richard Sharp.
Production and Partneship Development support: Phil Rushworth, Lucy Elmes,
Marketing: Tilly Craig and Molly Erin McArthy.
Image: DRUMROLL (2020) LOW PROFILE.
Photo credit: Dom Moore.
Image description: A close up photo of an orange snare drum on a stand in front of an out of focus image of the sea crashing against rocks. Two drumsticks rest on top of the drum.
Artists: LOW PROFILE
Production, partnership development marketing support.
DRUMROLL is a new audio artwork composed for 8 drums, distributed online on New Years Eve (31 Dec 2020) as a shared (but distant) listening event.
DRUMROLL takes a simple, recognisable musical flourish (a drumroll) as a starting point and extends and expands this to create an evocative, engaging, immersive listening experience.
DRUMROLL (2020) made in collaboration with Richard Sharp.
Production and Partneship Development support: Phil Rushworth, Lucy Elmes,
Marketing: Tilly Craig and Molly Erin McArthy.
Image: DRUMROLL (2020) LOW PROFILE.
Photo credit: Dom Moore.
Image description: A close up photo of an orange snare drum on a stand in front of an out of focus image of the sea crashing against rocks. Two drumsticks rest on top of the drum.
Speedwell
2020
Artists: Still/Moving
Public Engagement Production and Marketing.
A site-specific installation, Speedwell uses the simple language of illuminated signage to oppose the historic idea that there ever was a 'New World'. It urgently asks us to imagine new ways of living, caring and dying well together on this damaged planet.
As the text changes slowly and silently in the vast space of Plymouth Sound it gives rise to complex questions. By using three words (NO, NEW, WORLDS) it invites viewers to ask complex questions about themselves, the damaged planet and the legacy of the pivotal journeys made by the Mayflower and its companion ship, Speedwell
Public Engagement Production: Lucy Elmes, Phil Rushworth
Marketing: Tilly Craig
Additional Consultation: Rachel Dobbs
Image: Speedwell at Mount Batten Breakwater, 2020, Still/Moving
Image courtesy of the artists.
Image description: The words 'No New Worlds' are spelt out in loghts, in capital letters across the breakwater, with water below and sky above. It is night and the water and sky are both dark blue. The letters cast a short reflection on the water.
Artists: Still/Moving
Public Engagement Production and Marketing.
A site-specific installation, Speedwell uses the simple language of illuminated signage to oppose the historic idea that there ever was a 'New World'. It urgently asks us to imagine new ways of living, caring and dying well together on this damaged planet.
As the text changes slowly and silently in the vast space of Plymouth Sound it gives rise to complex questions. By using three words (NO, NEW, WORLDS) it invites viewers to ask complex questions about themselves, the damaged planet and the legacy of the pivotal journeys made by the Mayflower and its companion ship, Speedwell
Public Engagement Production: Lucy Elmes, Phil Rushworth
Marketing: Tilly Craig
Additional Consultation: Rachel Dobbs
Image: Speedwell at Mount Batten Breakwater, 2020, Still/Moving
Image courtesy of the artists.
Image description: The words 'No New Worlds' are spelt out in loghts, in capital letters across the breakwater, with water below and sky above. It is night and the water and sky are both dark blue. The letters cast a short reflection on the water.
Plymouth Art Weekender 2020
Client: Visual Arts Plymouth
Coordinators and Community Engagement Producers
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.
Coordination: Lucy Elmes, Phil Rushworth
Community Engagement Production: Rachel Dobbs, Beth Emily Richards, Leah Harris
Image: Lockdown Tarot, John Walter at KARST.
Photo Credit: Dom Moore
Image description: John Walter sits behond a round table in front of a black room. He is hearing a turquise cropped wig, a plastic face sheild and a short cleeved shirt covered in brightly coloured drawings. The table is covered in matching fabric and there is a small pump bottle of hand sanitiser on the table. John is fanning a set of orange tarot cards and looking directly at the camera.
Coordinators and Community Engagement Producers
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.
Coordination: Lucy Elmes, Phil Rushworth
Community Engagement Production: Rachel Dobbs, Beth Emily Richards, Leah Harris
Image: Lockdown Tarot, John Walter at KARST.
Photo Credit: Dom Moore
Image description: John Walter sits behond a round table in front of a black room. He is hearing a turquise cropped wig, a plastic face sheild and a short cleeved shirt covered in brightly coloured drawings. The table is covered in matching fabric and there is a small pump bottle of hand sanitiser on the table. John is fanning a set of orange tarot cards and looking directly at the camera.
In The Company of Insects
Fiona Benson 2020 Arts Commission
Client: Arts and Culture, University of Exeter
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
Cultural Producer: Phil Rushworth
Image: In the Company of Insects listening event at RAMM, Nov 2019.
Image description: Fiona Benson, a woman with long hair, is reading from a notebook on a stage with dim green and clue lighting, her face is illuminated. In front of her Mair Bosworth is sitting in front of a laptop at a table, her long hair covers her face. You can see a sound mixing programme on the laptop.
Client: Arts and Culture, University of Exeter
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
Cultural Producer: Phil Rushworth
Image: In the Company of Insects listening event at RAMM, Nov 2019.
Image description: Fiona Benson, a woman with long hair, is reading from a notebook on a stage with dim green and clue lighting, her face is illuminated. In front of her Mair Bosworth is sitting in front of a laptop at a table, her long hair covers her face. You can see a sound mixing programme on the laptop.
Creative Fellowships 2019-2020
Client: Arts and Culture at University of Exeter
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..
Cultural Producers - Phil Rushworth, Lucy Elmes, Hannah Jones
Image: Domenico Vicinanza and Dr Genevieve Williams, V-Simulator facility, University of Exeter
Image Description: The photo is of a room with bright blue walls with lots of power pounts and cables. There is a large grey metel panel inset into the wooden floor. Dr Genevieve Williams stands on the metel panel, wearing a black VR headset and a head to toe black outift with white dots along her limbs. her hair is tied up. The the right, and slightly behind her, Domenico Vicinanza, with short black hair and wearing a black jumper and black trousers, kneels floor, just on the edge of the platform, looking at various sound and computer equipment, including a sound recorder and digital sensor.
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..
Cultural Producers - Phil Rushworth, Lucy Elmes, Hannah Jones
Image: Domenico Vicinanza and Dr Genevieve Williams, V-Simulator facility, University of Exeter
Image Description: The photo is of a room with bright blue walls with lots of power pounts and cables. There is a large grey metel panel inset into the wooden floor. Dr Genevieve Williams stands on the metel panel, wearing a black VR headset and a head to toe black outift with white dots along her limbs. her hair is tied up. The the right, and slightly behind her, Domenico Vicinanza, with short black hair and wearing a black jumper and black trousers, kneels floor, just on the edge of the platform, looking at various sound and computer equipment, including a sound recorder and digital sensor.
Plymouth Art Weekender 2019
Client: Visual Arts Plymouth
Coordinators and Community Engagement Producers
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.
Coordination: Lucy Elmes, Phil Rushworth, Rhys Morgan, Tim Mills Community Engagement production: Rachel Dobbs
Image: MAKE IT UP, Tabatha Andrews and Tim Bolton, Union Street.
Photo Credit: Dom Moore
Image description: The photo is a view of a white wall behond a pavement and road. On the wall hangs a line of six groups of large cut out shapes of different materials and colours (red, black, green and a light bare wood). Each group includes several cut out shapes, layered on top of each other, they vary in shape from square and angular to curved or a micture of both. Five out of focus people walk in front of the wall, on the pavement. Two of the people are walking next to each other.
Coordinators and Community Engagement Producers
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.
Coordination: Lucy Elmes, Phil Rushworth, Rhys Morgan, Tim Mills Community Engagement production: Rachel Dobbs
Image: MAKE IT UP, Tabatha Andrews and Tim Bolton, Union Street.
Photo Credit: Dom Moore
Image description: The photo is a view of a white wall behond a pavement and road. On the wall hangs a line of six groups of large cut out shapes of different materials and colours (red, black, green and a light bare wood). Each group includes several cut out shapes, layered on top of each other, they vary in shape from square and angular to curved or a micture of both. Five out of focus people walk in front of the wall, on the pavement. Two of the people are walking next to each other.
Urgency Arts Commissions
2019, Fiona Benson, Catherin Cartwright, IJAD Dance
Client: Arts and Culture at University of Exeter
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 Your 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.
Cultural Producer: Phil Rushworth
Image: Futureproof Your Body 01, IJAD Dancy, University of Exeter Nov 2019
Photo Credit: Steven Haywood
Image description: A photo of two female dancers, taken from the thigh upwards, in the middle of the photo. They are both wearing black outfits with large white spots, VR headsets and they are holding VR controllers. One dancer is at the front of the image, facing the camera and looking up. her right arm is stretched above her head and her left arm reaches out to her side. Behind her the second dancer faces away from the camera, looking towards the floor and with her arms kept low and bent loosely at the elbow. They are in front of a black background with lines of purple and blue lights fanning out from the centre.
Client: Arts and Culture at University of Exeter
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 Your 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.
Cultural Producer: Phil Rushworth
Image: Futureproof Your Body 01, IJAD Dancy, University of Exeter Nov 2019
Photo Credit: Steven Haywood
Image description: A photo of two female dancers, taken from the thigh upwards, in the middle of the photo. They are both wearing black outfits with large white spots, VR headsets and they are holding VR controllers. One dancer is at the front of the image, facing the camera and looking up. her right arm is stretched above her head and her left arm reaches out to her side. Behind her the second dancer faces away from the camera, looking towards the floor and with her arms kept low and bent loosely at the elbow. They are in front of a black background with lines of purple and blue lights fanning out from the centre.
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
THE CORNWALL WORKSHOP
2016 organised by CAST
Production support by Phil Rushworth, technical support by Ryan Curtis
Led by Ben Rivers at Kestle Barton.
Photo credit: Richard Broomhall
Production support by Phil Rushworth, technical support by Ryan Curtis
Led by Ben Rivers at Kestle Barton.
Photo credit: Richard Broomhall
SISTER SISTER
2016 - 2018
Co-directed by Beth Emily Richards (with Rosie King, LOW PROFILE, Molly Rooke and Clare Thornton).
Photo credit: Holly Knowles
Co-directed by Beth Emily Richards (with Rosie King, LOW PROFILE, Molly Rooke and Clare Thornton).
Photo credit: Holly Knowles
(NOT) EVERY THREAD/ YOUR SPLIT ENDS ARE SHOWING
2016 at DKUK SALON
Co-curated by Lucy Stella Rollins (with Leo Cohen)
Artists: Merike Estna, May Hands, Byzantia Harlow, Zoë Paul, Sophie Jung
Photo credits Rob Harris
Co-curated by Lucy Stella Rollins (with Leo Cohen)
Artists: Merike Estna, May Hands, Byzantia Harlow, Zoë Paul, Sophie Jung
Photo credits Rob Harris
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE RIVER
2014 for River Tamar Project/ Plymouth University
Produced by Phil Rushworth
Screening of The Dividing Line by Mark Vernon
Photo credit: Dom Moore
Produced by Phil Rushworth
Screening of The Dividing Line by Mark Vernon
Photo credit: Dom Moore
THE CORNWALL WORKSHOP
2013 organised by CAST
Production Support by Phil Rushworth
led by Simon Starling at Kestle Barton
Production Support by Phil Rushworth
led by Simon Starling at Kestle Barton
CONFLUENCE
2013, Falmouth University and University of Exeter
Curated by Phil Rushworth
Deposition by Alex Murdin
Curated by Phil Rushworth
Deposition by Alex Murdin
24HR. COMIC ETC.
2011
Co-directed by Phil Rushworth (with Tom Sharpe)
Eden Project edition
Co-directed by Phil Rushworth (with Tom Sharpe)
Eden Project edition
PROJECT SPACE 11
2010 -2011
Co-directed by Beth Emily Richards (with Bryony Gillard and Scott Daniels)
‘Peepshow’, Subjectivity and Feminisms research group, University of the Arts London.
Co-directed by Beth Emily Richards (with Bryony Gillard and Scott Daniels)
‘Peepshow’, Subjectivity and Feminisms research group, University of the Arts London.
COME TO OURS
2011 for the British Art Show 7 fringe
Co-devised, developed and delivered by Beth Emily Richards with Bryony Gillard, LOW PROFILE, Christopher Green, Mark James, Neil Rose.
Image credit: Video Takeaway, photographed by Josh Greet
Co-devised, developed and delivered by Beth Emily Richards with Bryony Gillard, LOW PROFILE, Christopher Green, Mark James, Neil Rose.
Image credit: Video Takeaway, photographed by Josh Greet
...AND ALL THE DIFFERENT VARIETIES
2009 at Falmouth University
Curated by Phil Rushworth
A Participatory Celebration through Bunting by Lois Wild
Curated by Phil Rushworth
A Participatory Celebration through Bunting by Lois Wild
WASTELANDS
2009 at Newlyn Art Gallery
Co-curated by Phil Rushworth (with Rebecca Darch, Ruth Gooding and Jeni Frasier)
Artists: Jane Bailey, Sarah Bunker, Paul Chaney, Joe Doldon, Andy Harper, Ally Mellor, Kate Parsons, Alison Sharkey, Lucy Willow, Zierle & Carter.
Co-curated by Phil Rushworth (with Rebecca Darch, Ruth Gooding and Jeni Frasier)
Artists: Jane Bailey, Sarah Bunker, Paul Chaney, Joe Doldon, Andy Harper, Ally Mellor, Kate Parsons, Alison Sharkey, Lucy Willow, Zierle & Carter.
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