Research
Adventures in Material and Space
Prioritising material understanding, context sensitivity and skills development as fundamental to the advancement of the expanded field of sculpture.
Research Activities
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- Workshop
- 28/07/2025
- - 28/08/2025
We will reimagine ready-made materials to create and construct sustainable sculptures, transforming materials, giving them new life and value and connecting us to place....
- Workshop
- 26/05/2025
- - 28/05/2025
Reigniting a connection to materials and the physical world, often lacking in the post-digital age, we will explore the potential of natural materials from clay, to straw, willow to bamboo....
- Workshop
- 14/04/2025
- - 16/04/2025
Architecture, assemblage and constructing large-scale sculptures. Investigating materials’ potential by constructing large or extremely small-scale sculptures; changing form and dimension of ready-made objects through repetition, wrapping, knotting, tearing, squeezing, hiding,...
- Workshop
- 17/02/2025
- - 19/02/2025
Altering an area of the space using projection, we will play, problem solve and get creative using found objects, coloured acetate and mirrors which will become an enlarged environment; an...
- Workshop
- 28/10/2024
- - 30/10/2024
Highlights from our short-course for children aged 6 – 11, delivered over three-days in October half-term 2024....
- Workshop
- 28/10/2024
- - 27/08/2025
Run in school half-term and holidays, this series of three-day short courses for children aged 6 - 11 focus on creative thinking and technical skills development in the expanded field...
- Event
- 12/08/2024
- - 16/08/2024
We are thrilled to announce that we are launching a programme of Contemporary Sculpture Courses for kids in Coventry & Warwickshire! This is kicking off with Adventures in Material &...
- Talk
- 05/12/2013
Open Lecture explored the relationship between sculptural expressions, architectural forms and engineering principles with reference to ancient, Renaissance and modern vaulted and domed structures....
- Event
- 01/06/2013
Tea and A Slice of Reality was a rare opportunity to visit Richard Wilson’s impressive Millennium commission on the Greenwich Peninsula and discuss it with the sculptor in person and...
- Event
- 11/07/2015
This sculpture-performance, involved an artist working with a bricklayer to construct a representation of the watchtower that used to be sited on the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground. Part of #TransActing:...
- Talk
- 12/11/2015
Katherine Clarke (muf architecture/art, Andrew Ranville (Rabbit Island Artist Residency) & Hayley Skipper (Forestry Commission) present a selection of public art programmes....
- Event
- 22/10/2015
As part of this Autumn’s focus on ‘Public Sculpture, Public Art’, we met with artist Alex Chinneck and Megan Piper, co-founder of The Line, to discuss their respective public sculpture...
