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Rachel Heller, Sit Down Pose, 2007
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Nek Chand
Workshop
Step Up: Exploring Collections course - Outside In collection
17 May 2024 – 19 Jul 2024
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- Closed
- Thursday
- Closed
- Friday
- 10:00 – 13:00
- Saturday
- Closed
- Sunday
- Closed
Timezone: Europe/London
Free admission
Online
- Language: English
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Outside In is delighted to have received funding from Jerwood Foundation to deliver a Step Up: Exploring Collections course online. This course will support five artists to explore the Outside In collection, with a particular focus on the newest acquisitions.
About
Step Up is the training and professional development programme devised and delivered by award-winning arts charity Outside In. The programme is a key part in the charity’s work to provide a platform for artists who find it difficult to access the art world for reasons including health, disability, social circumstance or isolation. The programme focuses on supporting participants to gain new skills in order to increase opportunities. Exploring Collections aims to equip participants with skills in research and interpretation. As part of the course, participants are encouraged to find a theme or work from the collection that they would like to focus on and they are then encouraged to produce creative responses to this research.
More about the course:
The course will use Outside In’s collection of over 180 works as a starting point for research. Outside In has a growing collection of artwork made by non-traditional and excluded artists both in the UK and internationally. With works from such well-known outsider artists as Scottie Wilson, Nek Chand, Nick Blinko, Valerie Potter and Ben Wilson (the Chewing Gum Man), this collection is the first of its kind in the UK. This course will focus mainly on the most recent acquisition and donation from independent collector Rose Knox-Peebles.
The Exploring Collections course will be delivered across 10 weeks by an experienced Step Up Course Tutor and will take place online via Zoom. There will also be one site visit to view the collection. As part of the course, there will be access to the collection and pre-recorded talks digitally. Throughout the course and whilst researching, participants are encouraged to journal, and make creative responses to the content. There will also be the opportunity to contribute towards a publicly accessible final digital publication and participate in an online event to share your experience of the course, subsequent research and creative journey.
This course is open to Outside In artists living in the UK and artists who see themselves as facing a barrier to the art world for reasons including health, disability, social circumstance or isolation.
Places on the course are free and Outside In is able to cover some material expenses, as well as reasonable travel expenses for the site visit.
