Tag Archives: art
Visit to an Idea Fund project
An inspiring visit yesterday to see progress on Johana Hartwig’s Idea Fund project based in Cardiff Bay. Johana is exploring how her city could find ways to feed itself utilising a kind of hydroponic system, grown on the waste discarded … Continue reading
Idea Fund Award – using urban river waste to create aesthetic, floating structures for growing food
Our latest ‘I’ve got an idea’ Fund award is to Johana Hartwig, a Cardiff based artist exploring creative solutions to urban environmental issues. Her work has focused on water bodies within populated spaces and public access to natural resources. Johana … Continue reading
Art, conversation & Pie-economics
The endless joy and stimulation of working as an experimental psychologist with visual artists…. Larks & Ravens has just run our first experimental Pie Supper at https://bricksbristol.org/ We invited 4 guests to use art and sharing a pie supper to … Continue reading
COP-26 Art Installation – The Planet’s Case of Abuse
With my alternative Larks&Ravens hat on, I’ve been working with my 2 artist colleagues to create an installation in the old Victorian Courtroom in Brecon to trigger conversation around climate change. What would happen if the Planet brought a case … Continue reading
The power of oblique
I enjoy working with my 2 visual artist colleagues precisely because they push me out from the comfortably rational into other ways of doing and knowing. Together, we’ve been exploring the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI). We generated a … Continue reading
Forget the statue, what about the plinth?
In the midst of the hot debate about whether certain public statues should be removed, no-one talks about the plinths on which such statues are erected or considers toppling those as well. Does this mean that the plinth is 100% … Continue reading
What does redundant really mean?
It looks like masses of people will become redundant as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown. And our economic systems and government policies have made paid employment the sole means to reliably feed, clothe and house your family. It is … Continue reading
The Covid who came for G&T
OK, so the unexpected ring at the door WAS a surprise but I (being both ‘home’ and ‘alert’) saw it as an opportunity to face the enemy and try to understand her perspective on causing a devestating pandemic. She did … Continue reading
A small rant about project ‘outcomes’
I’ve just completed a project proposal which required a section entitled ‘Outcomes’ ( “The way a thing turns out” according to the OED). Grant Applications often require this too along with a description of “Outputs” (“The amount of something produced … Continue reading
What’s £10 worth?
My artist colleagues and I are on Day 5 of our short residency in Newport Market – learning surprising things every week about exchange and value and the weird and distorting nature of money. The last 2 visits we’ve been … Continue reading
The Prospectory 