Coastal North Fellowship: Workshop With Kate Genever

On the 25th of Febuary we were joined by producer Hannah Kirkham and artist Kate Genever to bring us an on site workshop and discussion.

Image shows a hand drawing an illustration directly onto a sheet laid on the table, there's an open sketchbook present and coloured pencils in the corner of the image. She is drawing things like hot doughnuts, ice cream cones, shells, people walking with the words 'Walk, Walk, Walk' around them in different fonts.
In this session we were joined by producer Hannah Kirkham, who is the for Solidarity Project Coordinator at the NewBridge Project in Newcastle and previously worked for Locus+, which is an a visual arts commissioning agency that works with artists on temporary public projects.

In the afternoon we were joined by artist and farmer Kate Genever, who shared her expansive and site-responsive practice with us; Kate runs a farm with her family and makes art in collaboration with others, often in rural communities. Her practice spans drawing, textiles, collaborative meals, events, and interventions, Kate also runs a notice board in her front garden as a site for collaborating with artists and the village where she lives.

Hannah led a session exploring how to take an idea or artwork into a public space and connect with an audience, she also shared case studies with the group from her experience working with Locus+; projects such as Tornado by Fiona Banner. With Kate we made lunch together, walked through Scarborough being attentive to our surroundings – listening, looking, smelling, documenting, overhearing, learning. We then continued to a collaborative expertise drawing together and creating a large concertina folded book from our observations.

Photography by Matthew Cooper 
Image shows two artists leaning over a table working together.
Image shows two artists leaning over a table looking at a handmade artists book together.
Image shows an artist pointing to a flipchart with text written on top, other artists in the room are stood listening to her.
Image shows several artists leaning over a table and working together on a project.
Image shows a hand drawing an illustration directly onto a sheet laid on the table, there's an open sketchbook present and coloured pencils in the corner of the image. She is drawing things like hot doughnuts, ice cream cones, shells, people walking with the words 'Walk, Walk, Walk' around them in different fonts.
Image shows several artists working on a drawing together, they are sat around a table, talking and smiling.
Image shows two artists smiling talking to each other, they are creating a collaborative drawing together.
Image shows an artist drawing in her sketchbook.
Image shows two artists on the beach, one is smiling and looking down at the other's open sketchbook, in which she is drawing.
Image shows an artist drawing directly onto the table, there is an empty paper plate with a finished meal beside him.
Image shows a table in which there's a long concertina folded artist book going down the length of the table, there are artists surrounding the flip book and holding it.
Image shows the length of a table covered in paper, there is a buffet of vegetables and fruit which people are helping themselves to with paper plates.
Image shows the length of a table which has plain paper rolled across the length of it, there are orange sticky notes with scribbles up and down.
Image shows two artists leaning over a table working together.
Image shows two artists leaning over a table looking at a handmade artists book together.
Image shows an artist pointing to a flipchart with text written on top, other artists in the room are stood listening to her.
Image shows several artists leaning over a table and working together on a project.
Image shows a hand drawing an illustration directly onto a sheet laid on the table, there's an open sketchbook present and coloured pencils in the corner of the image. She is drawing things like hot doughnuts, ice cream cones, shells, people walking with the words 'Walk, Walk, Walk' around them in different fonts.
Image shows several artists working on a drawing together, they are sat around a table, talking and smiling.
Image shows two artists smiling talking to each other, they are creating a collaborative drawing together.
Image shows an artist drawing in her sketchbook.
Image shows two artists on the beach, one is smiling and looking down at the other's open sketchbook, in which she is drawing.
Image shows an artist drawing directly onto the table, there is an empty paper plate with a finished meal beside him.
Image shows a table in which there's a long concertina folded artist book going down the length of the table, there are artists surrounding the flip book and holding it.
Image shows the length of a table covered in paper, there is a buffet of vegetables and fruit which people are helping themselves to with paper plates.
Image shows the length of a table which has plain paper rolled across the length of it, there are orange sticky notes with scribbles up and down.

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