This project explores the use of mobile phones as tools for creativity, within artistic and learning contexts, in Higher Education and beyond. It was conceived as a response to the ubiquity of mobile phone devices in everyday life and the apparent ambivalence of both educators and students towards phone use...
MALEFICARUM premiere Friday 22nd May, 7.30pm Read the full script here: Final Script Maleficarum 22nd May, 2020. The Magistrates Court Leeds. The press are waiting hungrily outside, for the verdict, cameras snapping, microphones pressed up against the windows, trying to hear a whisper of what is happening inside. Within the courtroom, the...
Introduction When a baby is born, so is the mum, and perhaps the dad too. We look at multiple pressures and anxiety among young adults, especially expectant parents and parents struggling for balance in their lives at this time of so much change. The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery has...
Inspired by the painting by Roger Fry of Nina Hamnett in The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, we have created a project exploring feminist progress in the arts. We have created a webpage where the audience can read, watch and interact with images and artwork around our theme. We aim...
Short films for our time inspired by the painting ‘Chelsea Public Library’ (1920) in the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds. 1. Heaven to Hell 2 Peeping Story 3. Spying Story 4. Gender Gaze (Malcolm Drummond. 1920. Chelsea Public Library) Malcolm Drummond, Chelsea Public Library, 1920，Gift of Mrs....
The Global Pandemic left the majority of creatives without their usual platforms to share work, but artists are ingenious people and very quickly looked to online, for digital solutions to allow them to continue creating. Major institutions such as The National Theatre have been screening their recorded output free of...
CREATING A DIGITAL THEATRE When I locked the doors of stage@leeds at 4pm on Friday March 20th my first thought was ‘Did I leave my car keys in my office… oh wait… they are in my pocket!’ and my second thought was: ‘what now?’ I have been the Artistic Director ...
Streaming, gaming, social media…. The Cloud. In the 21st Century our lives are split between the tangible and the ephemera; that which we can interact with using all of our senses and that which is limited to a subset of them (I have no idea what the internet smells or...