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A look back at 2024

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As the year comes to a close, we want to express our gratitude to everyone who has contributed to the Art, Freedom, Care studios and workshops. The artist makers who join us each week, bringing creativity and passion, an amazing group of artist facilitators who do so much to support everyone, and the parents and carers who have become a big part of our community and shared their lives with us.

Update on Arches Development

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Work continues into 2025 as work on site at the Arches in Hastings takes shape. Renovations will greatly improve the Arches, resurface the front yard and provide completely new studio spaces in Arch 3. As part of the funding for the site we have received over £70,000 for a lift and Changing Place facilities from the Hastings Skills Capital Fund. The funders for the Arches development are: Arts Council England, Wolfson Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, Clothworkers Foundation, Foyle Foundation, and Levelling Up Partnership funding (who have also funded some of the development work at Trinity Hall as well as the Architectural Heritage Fund).

Residency at Bethlem Gallery

In January 2025 we will launch a residency by Project Art Works across the Bethlem Gallery and the National Autism Unit. The exhibition (Jan 28th – Feb 7th) invites visitors to experience an environment informed by the strengths and interests of people who have been before them. Supported sessions in the pop-up studio will enable a range of people to represent themselves on their own terms through authentic responses which become part of an evolving installation.

Press Release – Michelle Roberts: Red, Blue, Up

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Michelle Roberts: Red, Blue, Up 22 February – 1 June 2025 De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill Image: Michelle Roberts, Hastings, 2009, Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm. Courtesy Project Art Works. De La Warr Pavilion is pleased to present Red, Blue, Up, a major new exhibition of paintings and drawings by Bexhill-based artist, Michelle Roberts, in the First floor gallery this spring. This solo exhibition is programmed in collaboration with award- winning arts charity Outside In, following the artist winning first prize in its national open exhibition, Humanity, in 2023, and Project Art Works, a neurodiverse collective of artists and activists based in Hastings, of which Roberts is a member.

PAW Christmas Market

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Project Art Works will be setting up a pop up shop at the Observer Building Christmas Market in Hastings on Saturday 7th December. We will be selling original pieces of art works, prints and books. Come down and say hi! Open from 11.00 – 17.00. Find the Observer Building at 53 Cambridge Road here. Can’t make the Christmas Market? You can still buy gifts from Project Art Works via Untitled Gallery.

Changing Place Toilet Funded

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Project Art Works has been awarded the Hastings Skills Capital Fund. We have received over £70,000 for a lift and Changing Place facilities to be installed in the newly built Arch 3 which is due to reopen in summer 2025. Image: Architect drawing of the Project Art Works Changing Place, August 2023, courtesy of Adams & Sutherland (click to enlarge) One of eleven projects designed to support training and boost employability across Hastings and Rother, this funding is a share of Government funding worth £1 million.

Invitation: 24 November Event in Van Abbemuseum

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Join us on November 24th, the final day of the Soils exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, for a special event dedicated to Watching Cow and Landscape (Kijken naar Koe en Landschap). This project explores questions that are not only relevant to farmers, but concern us all, such as solutions for sustainability. We welcome both experts and enthusiasts to look at the soils with us. How can the museum, and especially the art of seeing and watching, help us answer the important questions?

OIL publication: launch and story so far

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OIL online launch Thursday 7th November 6-7pm GMT This publication has developed from ‘Oil as far as the eye can see – Energy regimes in the everyday’ a tour curated and guided by Rachel Grant that took place across Aberdeen, as part of Myvillages’ Summer Camp titled ‘Who Has the Energy’, commissioned, produced and held at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden, July 2023. Join us for a presentation and discussion with OIL publication author and editor Rachel Grant (Fertile ground, Aberdeen), Sam Trotman (Programme & Partnerships Director Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, Aberdeenshire), Kathrin Böhm (Myvillages) and Scott Herrett (Just Transition Organiser for Friends of the Earth Scotland and member of Friends of St.

The Stimming Pool

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The Stimming Pool, directed by The Neurocultures Collective (a collective of neurodiverse directors; Sam Chown Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy) and Steven Eastwood, has been selected by film festivals nationally and internationally. “The Stimming Pool is a unique film exploring a world shaped by neurodiverse perspectives. The narrative unfolds through an autistic camera, capturing diverse subjects navigating environments both challenging and comforting. Characters, some concealing their autism, others thriving in their communities, share a common goal: finding a space free from societal norms—the Stimming Pool.

I Hear You, Mikhail Karikis

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A film featuring five artists from Project Art Works and those closest to them is currently being screened as part of The Whole World in our Hands in Toronto, Canada. The Blackwood gallery have worked with curator Jacqui Usiskin on this multi site installation across the University of Toronto Mississauga. Images: Mikhail Karikis, I Hear You, 2019/2024. Special edition for The Blackwood. Single-channel video without sound, 20:57. Originally commissioned by De la Warr Pavilion and Project Art Works, UK.

Make Studio Exhibition

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Five of Project Art Works artists have had work selected for an online exhibition, Cordially Invited, curated by Make Studio. Make Studio is a supported studio based in Baltimore and the online exhibition is running alongside a physical one that is open at the same time. The artists whose work has been selected are: Gemma, Lucy Jenion, Mark Lockton, George Smith and Jakob Wright. Visit the online exhibition here: make-studio.

Arus Balik–Shifting Currents Symposium Day 2 @Nieuwe Instituut harvest by Setareh Noorani and Sandro Armanda, September 2024

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NOTE: This harvest is mainly keywords and partial recollections…Good to rewatch the video registrations of the symposium day(s) (online ASAP) Symposium Day 1 Symposium Day 2 Introduction to the day by Anita Halim Lim (on behalf of Museum Arsitektur Indonesia) Shifting currents: Added temporal layer, coming back to a place where you have been before. Diaspora as richness, negotiation as bridge. Home as archipelago, connecting and dispersed. Vocabulary, tools and artistic practice towards shared futures.

Arus Balik–Shifting Currents Symposium Day 2 CLOSING WORDS @Nieuwe Instituut harvest by Setareh Noorani, September 2024

Closing words Arus Balik – Shifting Currents Symposium Day 2 by Setareh Noorani (Nieuwe Instituut) Thank you everyone for joining us during this second day of the Arus Balik – Shifting Currents symposium, either in person or online. I once again want to thank the chairs Setiadi Sopandi, Robin Hartanto Honggare, and Ayos Purwoaji, and all the speakers, Amanda Achmadi, Sandro Armanda, Nashin Mahtani and Mohammad Nanda Widyarta, Remco Vermeulen, Yasmin Tri Aryani, and Paoletta Holst.

Arus Balik–Shifting Currents Symposium Day 1 @Nieuwe Instituut harvest by Isabel Bruijstens, September 2024

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Session 2 Diasporic imaginariesChair: Made Ngurah Amanda PinatihSpeakers: Christopher Reinhart, Setiadi Sopandi, Nazif Lopulissa How does the existence of diasporic vernaculars impact the lived realities in the 21st century? And how can we view architecture and design as tangible reflections of these realities? Such questions lay at the base of the second session in the Arus Balik–Shifting Currents symposium. It traced the diasporic imaginaries that arise through an intermingling of diverging temporalities, traditions, identities and localities, while also exploring how such imaginaries are re-articulated through architecture and design.
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