Moveable Feast so far

Research

The initial research (The Workshop Interviews) was funded by Arts Council England and involved interviewing artists from throughout England in all art forms from The Royal National Theatre to the local scrapstore. This was backed up by a dissertation at Exeter University called: Pudding Proof – a Workshop Story.

Dartington

This led to a partnership with the Centre for Creative Enterprise and Participation at Dartington College of Arts and the first Feast was run for 42 artists from throughout the South West region (ACE funded).

And On...

The successes of this event were: new collaborations forged, work opportunities generated, artists inspired each other’s work, a network began and insight was gained into new ways of practising. This formed the foundation for seven more Feasts at Bournemouth University (2), Falmouth College of Arts, Bristol Multi- A, Blackdown Hills Rural Partnership and two further Dartington Feasts. A movement began with contact to over 300 artists from all forms of practice.

Publications

There have been two publications to date:

1. Workshop- A Moveable Feast (a book and video)
2. A Workshop Handbook – Tools, Tips and Tales c/w The Golden Fish DVD.

These publications have expounded the findings of the Feasts to disseminate them to a wider audience.