Category / Education & Engagement
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Go Go Whippet Education
Go Go Whippet provides bespoke workshops for schools, galleries and museums as well as projects in the public realm . Either working to a brief or self directed Matt Rowe’s background in contemporary art craft and image making ensures that specialist skill sets are tailored specifically to your project. From craft orientated making and doing to…
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Fortopia
During his year as Artist in Residence at Fort Burgoyne, for the Pioneering Places Year of Engagement, Matt Rowe developed a series of still and moving images that echo the atmosphere of the site. He has investigated aspects of the fort’s heritage by considering not only its role as a site of civil defence and military…
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Parabolic Visions
Newcastle School of Architecture, Charrette 2017 Throughout history, mankind has crafted devices that utilise form and texture to help master and manipulate the environment, for example the Inuit goggles used in the frozen north or the sound mirrors dotted around the English coast. In Groups will be challenged to develop a series of portable or…
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Migratory Hides
Newcastle Universty Charrette Week Workshops 650+ students, 13 studios, 5 days, 1 celebration… Over the week each group are challenged to create a structure that will function as an urban social observation hide. Each structure should to be constructed from a minimum of 70% recycled or salvaged materials echoing the anarchic shelters of migrant jungle…
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Vernacular Spectacular
Club Shepway Vernacular Spectacular Club Shepway is a collective of emerging artists and writers based in Folkestone, Kent, led by Laura Mansfield, Niamh Sullivan, and Matt Rowe. During the summer of 2008, as part of the first Folkestone Triennial, they hosted Vernacular Spectacular, a vibrant fringe event that transformed the historic Leas Lift into an…
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Club Shepway
Centered in Folkestone Club Shepway is a group of emerging artists, writers and educators attempting to develop an active arena of cultural engagement and experimentation. Promoting contemporary art, music and its encompassing dialogue. Playing with local histories, hidden memories and current affairs Club Shepway is fundamentally concerned with the social and commercial development occurring in the area,…
