Scroll down through some of our projects featuring Art and Artists.
We were asked by the staff team at St Thomas’ Primary School in North Kensington to work with their year 6 children to devise a project exploring an aspect of local history. After discussions and workshops it was decided to explore the history of culture in the area, to meet and interview a variety of local people who have been involved in everything from visual arts, to music, theatre and graffiti.
The children undertook training with us in filming, audio and interviewing skills before going on to meet a wonderful array of local artists. these not only involved interviews but also demonstrations of their skills.
These were wonderfully inspiring intergenerational meetings all documented by the film which you can watch here.
Artists studios are an important part of any community's lifeblood and Kindered Studios provides that service in North Kensington, providing space to ceramicists and potters, leather artisans, jewellery makers and many others. We talked to some of the users of the studios who told us about their work.
This was part of the Art In North Kensington project - alongside Standing at the Crossroads - which we did with St Thomas' CE Primary School students.
Commissioned by artist Lindsay Starbuck, the brief was to create a short film documenting the entire process of making a ceramic teapot. We didn’t want to use words but to use images of the process to show the whole process, from drawing board to shaping clay, moulding and painting, firing, creating the handle and ending with a nice cup of tea. The key was that we wanted to do this using no words, just letting simple images convey the beauty of this productive process.
North Kensington based artist Steve Mepsted asked us to make a short film documenting a large scale art installation he was putting together funded by the Westway Trust. He accessed archive photographs taken by borough photographers of the area in the 1960s, 70s and 80s as preparatory work for various building and development work and used photoshop to cut out and isolate people who were incidental to these images and just happened to be passing when they were taken. He then blew them up many times and had them printed on 3 metre high posters and pasted onto the walls and supports of the Westway itself. These beautiful, at times haunting, images were exhibited for several months. This short film documents the process Steve went though to create this wonderful exhibition.
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