Hello from the study group (well…Bettina). Our study period has ended and we are now back in our individual endeavours, perhaps still taking the time to digest what we have explored together or integrating what we’ve individually taken from these […]
27-01-2021 Movement, moving together, to walk at the same time through distance. We voice call over WhatsApp whilst walking around our neighbourhoods describing our locations and what we can see. noticing the moss growing everywhere in the urban environment and […]
Bettina Fung sums up the group’s reflection on this study period and includes some more of her thoughts. We held a reflection session after our bursary supported study period and bounced off ideas for our next step, which is still […]
For our final meeting, we decided to have a more in-depth conversation about the things we had been discussing and did this through a live interview/writing session in a Gdoc. It was a really nice way of speaking, listening and […]
Dear a-n blog readers. As the Artists Make Change – Peer Learning Group (PLG) Bursary comes to an end, it is time for the Bristol Artist-Led Forum (BA-LF) to resume and reflect upon this extremely valuable opportunity we are grateful […]
20-01-21 To walk or latte? Arranged to all make turmeric lattes to sit and chat. One of us remembered, tea will do fine. Thinking of walking in city scape – both port cities Southampton and Rotterdam are connected in stories? […]
Extracts from our conversation presented as a stream of consciousness. The two accompanying images depict public placements of some of the text extracts. Three is the magic number so they say. Where’s my pen. Where’s my tea. How does […]
As you might be aware of from previous posts, after our third meeting in November we’ve decided to divide into 4 sub-groups of interest to focus on specific aspects of our broad research. We will now be introducing the contents […]
As you might be aware of from previous posts, after our third meeting in November we’ve decided to divide into 4 sub-groups of interest to focus on specific aspects of our broad research. We will now be introducing the contents […]
As you might be aware of from previous posts, after our third meeting in November we’ve decided to divide into 4 sub-groups of interest to focus on specific aspects of our broad research. We will now be introducing the contents […]
As you might be aware of from previous posts, after our third meeting in November we’ve decided to divide into 4 sub-groups of interest to focus on specific aspects of our broad research. We will now be introducing the contents […]
On Thursday 17th December, Bristol Artist-Led Forum has been invited to take part to Doughnart! event by the Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL). We presented the research our 4 subgroups carried out so far focused on how to apply the Doughnut Economic to […]
As part of our Peer Learning Group bursary project, Rabbits Road Press, Tender Hands Press and Granby Press meet regularly to discuss some of the opportunities and challenges they face as risograph presses. In this blog post, Saffa Khan and […]
Speaking from the hole in the ground: What has kept you optimistic since we last spoke? What’s been entertaining you? What have you been worrying about? what gives you energy? We turn up differently and start the conversation from a […]
The theme for this session was ‘Relationship between art and society’ and it was our last bursary supported session. It was led by Catherine Harrington and myself. We started by looking at images of artworks that have a focus on […]
Karen Le Roy Harris reflects on our last bursary supported study session. Mirei and Catherine who were running this week’s session set us a task to find a piece of work that inspired us in relation to our role as […]
#04 I 10:18 The soil from my mother’s garden crunches in the hand shells of snails accumulated grit roots as strong and delicate as greying hairs. Ground that welcomes rain and pushes between toes on bare feet leaving marks like […]
FrancisJohn Chan’s Reflection on the Study Group – Art/Activism, initiated by Bettina Fung. This study group session, led by Bettina Fung and Karen Le Roy Harris, bleeds beyond the hours on my calendar, has me thinking about how we artists/activists […]
25 November 2020 Themes Ranting, survival, health, trauma, recovery Tentacles of enquiry “I didn’t mean to start off with ranting”. Some of us needed to vent, to release energy and frustration. ..Processing is part of the process… Coming back to […]
Reflection on Session #2 by Jimena Mendizábal de Moral Our study group is composed of a wide range of practices within the art world. We are all art agents yet we are testaments of the diversity that make up the […]
Session summary written by Catherine Harrington This session explored self-care and empathy, through physical exercises and readings – and a focus on elevating our approach to each other, through using compassion: We started off with an exercise set by Colleen […]
In the fading light on a December afternoon, Fraisia, Dan and Anna met at the Hotwells Piazza in Bristol to discuss how doughnut economics could apply to an artists’ network and how that could specifically relate to our community art […]
07 November 2020 Themes Health, bodies, communities, expression, trauma, stress, somatics. Tentacles of inquiry Reflecting on first hand experience of Long COVID. Bodies go wrong because we’re human. Realities of body and brain exhaustion. Current situation means people are enduring […]
Throughout our sessions we will each bring something to share, be it observations, experiences or emerging strategies. These share’s will connect to the previous session, forming leap-frog flows of playful movement, allowing the conversations to evolve and expand our […]
We kicked off the study period with a session looking into nature, paying attention to non-human relationships that could inspire new ways of thinking. The session involved: memory and location mapping exercise: connecting the body, memories, places and imagination, a […]