The Art & Science of Noticing
The Art & Science of Noticing is an enquiry led approach to learning in museums and galleries, devised by Bradford Museums & Galleries Learning Team.
Commissioned by Bradford Museums & Galleries 2017
The Machinery Installation
Making its premier at the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Festival 2018, The Machinery Installation is a new collaborative art work by Caroline Radcliffe (clog dancer), Sarah Angliss (composer and digital artist) and Jon Harrison (digital film maker).
The three screen, immersive, sound and visual installation expresses the dehumanisation and alienation of the industrial worker - relentlessly subjected to an exhausting cycle of repetition.
The ‘heel-and-toe’ clog steps are layered with looped sounds taken from a working, 19th century cotton mill and a 21st century call centre, emphasising the connections between the two industries.
Documentary film by University of Birmingham, October 2018.
Making the Case for the Arts - Opportunity and Experience
A CapeUK film making the case for using the arts and creativity in education to boost children's learning. This film shows how staff and pupils at Barugh Green Primary School have used the arts across the curriculum.
Commissioned by CapeUK (IVE) 2015 (1 of 3)
Making the Case for the Arts - A Deeper Understanding
A CapeUK film making the case for using the arts and creativity in education to boost children's learning. This film shows how staff and pupils at St Marie's Primary School have used the arts across the curriculum.
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Commissioned by CapeUK (IVE) 2015 (1 of 3)
Making the Case for the Arts - Creative Confidence
A CapeUK film making the case for using the arts and creativity in education to boost children's learning. This film shows how staff and pupils at High Storrs School have used the arts across the curriculum. Made in collaboration with A level Film Studies students at High Storrs School.
Commissioned by CapeUK (IVE) 2015 (1 of 3)
Tom Wood - Painter's Progress: The Journey from There to Here.
A talk by Tom Wood - painter and portraitist, former professor of Fine Art at Bretton Hall College, outlines his own recent work with reference to selected items from the National Arts Education Archive at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Recorded 16 September 2016 at the NAEA (National Arts Education Archive)
Eileen Adams: Agent of Change
NAEA Gallery (26 Sep–15 Dec 2015)
This exhibition showed how revolutionary initiatives have prompted change in art, design and environmental education, taking art out of the gallery into school grounds and onto the street.
Recorded 27 October 2015 at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Herbert Read & Alec Clegg: A Revolution Realised
NAEA Gallery (31 Jan–29 Mar 2015)
Two of the most influential educators of the 20th century - Herbert Read, English anarchist, poet, literary critic and co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Sir Alec Clegg, Chief Education officer for the West Riding of Yorkshire (1945–1974).
Recorded 25 March 2015 at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Art Educated 1
The National Arts Education Archive was established in 1985 to provide a documentary trace of the development of arts education in the UK and worldwide, by collecting children’s and students' work and the papers, letters and work of key educators and artists in the visual arts, music and language. YSP has managed the Archive since 2009. This material, comprising more than 100 catalogued collections, is based in the purpose-built Lawrence Batley Centre on the former Bretton Hall College campus and is available to researchers, lecturers and the general public by appointment on Mondays and Tuesdays each week.
Recorded 2 April 2016 at NAEA (National Arts Education Archive)
Art Educated 2
The National Arts Education Archive was established in 1985 to provide a documentary trace of the development of arts education in the UK and worldwide, by collecting children’s and students' work and the papers, letters and work of key educators and artists in the visual arts, music and language. YSP has managed the Archive since 2009. This material, comprising more than 100 catalogued collections, is based in the purpose-built Lawrence Batley Centre on the former Bretton Hall College campus and is available to researchers, lecturers and the general public by appointment on Mondays and Tuesdays each week.
Recorded 14 May 2016 at NAEA (National Arts Education Archive)
Eileen Adams Drawing Conclusions: The Educator’s Response
Eileen Adams speaks about her work as the Director for Power Drawing and using additional references from the Learning Through Drawing Collection, considers the potency of drawing as language and as a key element in the education of children.
Recorded 27 May 2017 at NAEA (National Arts Education Archive)
Philip Rawson: Philosopher-Sculptor-Educator
Piers Rawson speaks about his father's multi-faceted art collection, which includes work in 2D and 3D, figuration, landscape, the oriental and erotic, calligraphic forms, aesthetics, philosophy, letters and publications, and his personal library of 3,000 books, magazines and pamphlets, now housed at the NAEA in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Recorded 23 May 2015 at the NAEA Gallery