Contemporary Craft workshops at the OSR Project Space
Posted: January 30, 2018 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on Contemporary Craft workshops at the OSR Project Space
We are excited to announce that throughout 2018 we will be hosting a programme of Contemporary Craft workshops at the OSR Project Space in West Coker, Somerset.
The workshops will aim to help participants to try something new or refine creative skills in a relaxed and supportive environment, under the guidance of expert tutors. Participants will get to meet likeminded individuals and what ever you create in the workshops you can take home with you. Teaching is in small groups of up to a maximum of 10 people, so help will be at hand. All workshops are suitable for beginners.
Modern Calligraphy Workshop – NOW 21 APRIL 2018
Build your own art world
Posted: January 22, 2018 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on Build your own art world
OSR Projects are excited to announce a one-day seminar ‘Build Your Own Art World’, taking place on Friday 16 March. This event will bring artists, curators and cultural producers together in rural Somerset to consider: What does it mean to be artist-led? Is there an alternative to a global gallery system? How do you build your own art world?
The programme includes an international panel of artists and organisers, representing a range of artist-run projects. Ad de Jong visits from Amsterdam to talk about the formation of iconic artist-run space W139 and Karl England will discuss Sluice, an London artist-run platform which currently comprises a biennial, expo, magazine and gallery. Plymouth collaborative duo LOW PROFILE, Cardiff arts space Spit & Sawdust and Bristol-based writer and singer Phil Owen, will offer interventions and provocations.
Designed for participants who are experienced in or curious about the artist-led as an alternative, the seminar offers opportunities to meet collaborators, break bread and explore collective strategies for building your own art world.
The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind – Hauser & Wirth Somerset
Posted: January 17, 2018 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind – Hauser & Wirth Somerset
Our Somerset neighbours at Hauser & Wirth have an exhibition opening this week ‘The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind’ telling at story of humanity’s evolving connection to the land, our perception of, and reliance upon it. Curated by Adam Sutherland from the fantastic Grizedale Arts
Topographies: A seminar on space, place and sensation
Posted: January 5, 2018 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on Topographies: A seminar on space, place and sensation
Tuesday 6 February, 11am-5pm – Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset UK
Topographies is a one-day seminar exploring how we make sense of different landscapes, through contemporary art practice and creative geographies.
Invited speakers are Harriet Hawkins, art writer and professor in GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway, University of London, and John Wylie, professor in Cultural Geography at Exeter University.
The seminar includes a lunch event, developed by Vilma Luostarinen in collaboration with Natasha Rosling. The menu will conjure the imaginary spaces of the body and its relationship to the land and sea.
More info & Tickets http://odysseanproject.co.uk
Od Arts Festival – Artist Commissions
Posted: December 19, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on Od Arts Festival – Artist Commissions
Od Arts Festival will weave in between past, present and future rivalries, creating static from the frictions that we find, with the creative platform becoming not only a place of excitement and discovery, but somewhere for ideas to be battled out.
Od Arts Festival 2018- Artist Opportunities
Od Arts Festival 11-13 May 2018
Posted: December 11, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on Od Arts Festival 11-13 May 2018
OSR Projects presents Od Arts Festival taking place in South Somerset 11-13 May 2018 /// Save the Date /// More information about the programme and opportunities for artists and visitors coming soon.
Exploring a discordant relationship with landscape and the natural world
Posted: December 5, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on Exploring a discordant relationship with landscape and the natural world
Artist and director of OSR Projects Simon Lee Dicker talks to earth.art about his latest work, Passing Place, currently on show in the Odyssean: Topographies exhibition at Hestercombe Gallery. Follow this link to the interview
Odyssean: Topographies
Posted: October 23, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on Odyssean: Topographies
Odyssean: Topographies
Natasha Rosling, Alexander Stevenson, Alistair Grant, Simon Lee Dicker
~~~~~
Launch Party Friday 17 November 2017 (6-8pm)
18 November 2017 to 25 February 2018
Hestercombe Gallery, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Taunton TA2 8LG
~~~~~
Over two years, Natasha Rosling, Alexander Stevenson, Alistair Grant and Simon Lee Dicker undertook a series of artist residencies across the Orkney Isles. From different locations – a remote bothy, a lighthouse, a beachside golf course and a burial chamber – each artist developed distinctive connections with the archipelago, its human stories, and its physical geography.
Odyssean: Topographies draws together common threads in their practices: questions around mapping, invisible and imagined spaces, and remoteness, both physical and emotional. Aptly sited in the galleries and gardens of Hestercombe, the exhibition responds experimentally to a layered landscape at once historic and contemporary, highly managed and equally wild.
~~~~~
Odyssean: Topographies is supported by Arts Council England and Gane Trust.
One amazing Island…
Posted: October 18, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on One amazing Island…
Our friends at b side are offering a number of commission opportunities to create new, temporary, site-responsive work in any media for the next festival, 8 – 16 September 2018. Proposals can be for any amount up to £4000 Click here for more info
Book Launch in the shadow of the Twineworks
Posted: October 10, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on Book Launch in the shadow of the Twineworks
Thanks to all that came to Dawe’s Twineworks for the launch of Unearthed this weekend , especially all the poets who’s words came to life in the shadow of the twineworks.
We have had a fantastic response to the drawing competition and we are look forward to having a proper look through all the entries at the end of the week.