Project Art WOrks x BAltic
Image: Albert Geere, House with Red Window, 2011
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Exhibition Title: Project Art Works presents Residential
Exhibition Dates: 23 September 2023 - 25 February 2024
Venue: Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, NE8 3BA
On the 23rd September Project Art Works opens Residential at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art as part of Explorers.
Residential, Project Art Works, 2023, Reece Straw, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Project Art Works holds an archive of over five thousand works that embodies a visible trace of people often hidden in the world. A selection of works is presented in this exhibition alongside a new film from Project Art Works’ studios in Hastings - I’ve Got Ideas, Don’t You Worry. Like the process behind the paintings, the film reveals people on their own terms as they negotiate connection – with materials, the environment and each other.
Following awareness raising and relationship building in the North East of England, the exhibition includes a programme of workshops for local people, families and caregivers. A studio installation next to the main space will host a series of collaborative events that bring partners and collaborators, audiences and artists together in creative production. Find out more here.
This exhibition is dedicated to Robbie Gordon and Edward Purdey.
Residential forms part of Explorers, a national programme of art and conversation generating productive and creative collaborations between cultural organisations artists and paid and unpaid caregivers. Explorers aims to increase visibility and representation of neurominorities in society, art and culture.
Explorers is supported by Arts Council England and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
Artists: Kate Adams, Liam Ash, Aida Ashall, Alison, Connor Ashley, El Bass, Luke Bebb, Michael Bounds, Sammy Brooks, Paul Colley, Andrew Cooper, Tim Corrigan, Edward Cox-Smith, Oliver Crowther, Natalie Dance, Mark Daniels, Sara Dare, Dion Downes, Sarah Dunne, Stanley Ellis, Gemma, Amy Fenton, Patricia Finnegan, Siddharth Gadiyar, David Geall, Albert Geere, Jo Goldman, Jack Goldsmith, Charlotte Hanlon, Peter Hersey, Rachel Hine, Cherry Lane, Lucy Jenion, Neville Jermyn, Annis Joslin, Eden Kötting, Aisha al-Kurd, Thomas Lepora, Lucy, Claire Matthews, Leila McMillan, Heidi Nice, Louise Newham, Sean Ormonde, India O’Sullivan, Magda Patza, Johnny Pell, Sharif Persaud, Phoebe, Ellen Prebble, Peter Quinell, Gabby R, Michelle Roberts, Georgie Scott, Carl Sexton, Maya Shapiro Steen, Will Shepherd, George Smith, Sam Smith, Darryl Spencer, Charlotte Stephens, Daniel Wells, Jakob Wright, Sarah T, Katie Taylor, Charlie Thomas, Christopher Tite, Marion Willis.
Project Art Works Administrative team:
Emily Baines, Helen Charlton, Jessica Courtney Bennett, Wendy Routley, Martin Swan
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Visiting the Baltic, find out more here:
https://baltic.art/plan-your-visit/supporting-your-access-needs/
The Programme
Residencies as Exhibition
26–29 September 2023, 17–22 October, 28 November–1 December 2023, 16–19 January 2024,
20–23 February 2024 Further information: www.projectartworks.org
Taking place within a temporary studio installation at Baltic, these residencies as exhibition will include a series of group and individual art actions that are personalised to individual needs, including large-scale drawings, painting and solar printing. The residencies will have invited guests participating each day, including groups and individuals from the social care sector in Newcastle and Gateshead, the staff team from Baltic and Project Art Works artist-facilitators.
These workshops will focus on sharing art practice and ‘play’ as the starting point for greater understanding between people, with the long-term vision being the development of sustainable relationships between Baltic and local social care communities.
Terrains of Care: Speaking and non-speaking with Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
Wednesday 18 October 2023
Booking information: projectartworks.org
Terrains of Care responds to an invitation by Project Art Works to explore the intersections between art and care in Spain through artistic practices that operate in the converging terrains of complex care needs, disability and neurodivergence. The event will examine and challenge conventional notions of care by looking at the intersections between communities and social systems of care, which simultaneously enable and disable people. The programme will be part of a site-specific sector-wide international learning event, which is the culmination of the two-year Explorers programme.
Explorers Final Event 2023
How can cultural institutions evolve into more caring and inclusive spaces?
28 – 29 November 2023
Booking information: eventbrite.com
This national event will celebrate the culmination of five years of the Explorersproject and the transformation in the representation of neurominorities in art and culture generated through its partnerships and actions.
Residential Review
Wednesday 21 February 2024
Further information: eventbrite.com
Social care processes place value on people and their abilities, through complex and sometimes adversarial systems of assessment and review. These then determine the care that people receive through local or national frameworks of support. This event takes a similar approach to looking at the cultural and social value of exhibitions for and by neurominorities.
Project Art Works will facilitate a reflective session and in conversation with the audience assess the impact of the exhibition, workshops and experiences over this eighteen-month collaboration. This will be a moment to contribute and commit to a plan for the future where the inclusive paradigms that have been conceived and tested through the project endure and evolve into the future. The event will have an inclusive environment and structure that facilitates the widest possible contribution from contributors supported by film and recorded documentation and feedback from audiences, participants and collaborators in the project.
