Project Archive
See some of our previously commissioned projects
A Landscape Of Objects
This project consisted of a series of site-specific commissions, residencies and curated shows, in a range of media, taking a different approach to the theme of ‘A Landscape of Objects’ setting the work within different cultivated landscapes of Somerset.Prospect
Prospect was Somerset Art Works’ programme between 2017 – 2018. Following the momentum of our creative programme 2015-17, 'Prospect' aimed to provide continuing opportunities for artists and audiences throughout Somerset. There were a range of partnership projects, new commissions and opportunities in different locations and venues.Young ProspectUs
A SAW project working with young people in Pupil Referral Units in Taunton, exploring the value of arts and education, with a focus on transition and developing informal access to training and skills.Priorswood Community Centre – Celebrating 20 Years
Somerset Art Works artist Emma Finch working with Priorswood Community Centre to celebrate their 20th anniversary.Muse: Makers in Museums
Eight creative craft commissions for artists to make new work in response to the special collections to be found in the small local rural museums of Devon and Somerset.Water – Meadow – Wood
Somerset Art Works is delivering a three year artist residency programme at Yeovil Country Park following the themes of Water – Meadow – Wood.Blackthorn Gardens Pocket Park
Somerset Art Works successfully gained a Pocket Park grant to work with the communities of North Taunton and Taunton Deane Borough Council to improve and refresh an unloved play area known locally as ‘The Cage’.Momentum
Momentum is the theme of Somerset Art Works’ creative programme between 2015 – 2017. We want to invite artists, curators and artist-led groups to engage with us to create new work, exploring aspects of the theme through contemporary visual arts and craft.Herbarium
A new commission at Lytes Cary Manor with highly acclaimed artists: Gary Breeze, Alison Crowther, Malcolm Martin collaborating with Gaynor Dowling and Annemarie O’Sullivan. Curated by Yvonna Demczynska from FLOW Gallery London to showcase contemporary craft: makers, skills, materials and thinking in the context of the site and subject ‘Herbarium’.Gather-ing
The large tithe barn at Stoke Sub Hamdon Priory, Somerset, is amongst a rare and unique group of medieval domestic and agricultural buildings. This was the focus of a contemporary craft project in 2015. The commissioned artworks was exhibited as part of Somerset Art Weeks 2017 at the Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury.The Great Crane Art Project
SAW has engaged a number of professional artists to develop a programme of community engagement projects inspired by cranes to offer creative opportunities to local schools, groups and individuals and to help raise awareness of this fascinating conservation project.Our Place/Taunton
Somerset Art Works has been developing and delivering projects with the communities of North and East Taunton since 2014. Our creative programme encourages people to explore their neighbourhoods, identify opportunities to improve the local environment for play, attractiveness, ecological diversity and health and wellbeing.Routes to the River Tone with Somerset Wildlife Trust
Somerset Art Works worked in collaboration with Somerset Wildlife Trust on the Routes to the River Tone Project in Taunton in 2015.Apex Park Labyrinth
During the summer of 2019 Christopher Jelley designed a new grass Labyrinth for Apex Park in the Burnham-on-Sea / Highbridge area.Lyngford Labyrinth
In the summer of 2018 a wild flower labyrinth emerged in the heart of Lyngford Park in Priorswood, Taunton, creating a path full of meaning and life to be explored through its twists and turns.West Sedgemoor Labyrinth
Christopher Jelley designed a Moth Meadow Labyrinth for National Meadows DayCraftivist Garden
Somerset Art Works co-ordinated a Somerset cluster of the national Craftivist project. Workshops facilitated by Nina Gronw-Lewis took place in North Taunton as part of SAW's Our Place project and at various venues around the county.Z-Twist-2014
Z–Twist brought together artists, designers, textile producers, educators, curators and archivists to raise the profile of high quality textiles in Somerset and the South West - past, present and future.Make the Most at Barrington Court
Make the Most Working with partners Craftspace and the National Trust, a vibrant exhibition of contemporary craft, sourced locally, nationally and internationally was showcased at Barrington Court, Somerset.Abundance
‘Abundance’ is a new programme created for Somerset Art Weeks Festival 2013, featuring exhibitions, new commissions and events. Connecting the wider public with the creativity between the cultivation of gardens and art making in Somerset.Make, Create , Cultivate 2013 -14
The central focus of a two year programme of visual and applied arts activity was the imaginative and innovative use of locally sourced raw materials, and ways of translating these processes and products into new platforms and markets for makers, producers and artists.Maximum Exposure
The project created a series of new visual arts commissions, exposing enigmatic or unknown aspects of Somerset. The project aimed to attract new audiences through bringing new and dynamic work to the region, and through a series of associated events.Reveal
'Reveal' is a working partnership between Somerset Art Works and Somerset Film. 'Reveal' aims to raise the profile of visual arts and media across the county by active collaboration.The Avalon Project @ Glastonbury Festival 2013
Somerset Art Works promote the county’s leading artists and their works at the summer’s headlining festivals, including Glastonbury!The Great Crane Art Project
SAW has engaged a number of professional artists to develop a programme of community engagement projects inspired by cranes to offer creative opportunities to local schools, groups and individuals and to help raise awareness of this fascinating conservation project.The Hunky Punks Project
Somerset Art Works with The Churches Conservation Trust and the New Saints Young People’s Group in Langport, SomersetAround here
In 2010 artists Sue Palmer and Simon Lee Dicker explored the art of place making in Langport with a focus on the public and civic spaces in the town.Company of Voices – Making Matters
Making Matters was part of the Somerset-wide Company of Voices intergenerational project. The aim of the project was to bring together older (50+) and younger people (under 25) to work together on positive activities that are of benefit to the local community.Safe Play Project with Knightstone Housing
In 2012 SAW worked on a project in Crewkerne in partnership with Knightstone Housing. Lead artist Sophy Denny worked with local families to develop creative ways of raising the profile of Street Play - with the aim of encouraging drivers to show consideration and awareness of children playing outside.Project Taunton
Taunton Deane Borough Council commissioned a Connectivity + Legibility Study to create guidance to improve and enhance way-finding and ensure a coordinated approach to public art across Taunton town centre. Reveal Partners were also invited to stage a two day consultation event in the High StreetSafe Routes
Safe Routes engages young people through an arts based approach explore both the rational and emotional response to the journey to and from school, particularly at the time of transition from primary to secondary school.River Parrett Revisited
Artist Simon Lee Dicker came up with the idea of creating an Internet based drawing that is activated through exploration.Revealing the Landscape
The Neroche Scheme has commissioned a diverse range of artists to make work in relation to the Neroche landscape.Art Weeks 09 Artists-in-school Programme
Continuing on from the success of Somerset Art Weeks 2008 educational programme for schools, SAW and SPAEDA (Somerset’s Arts Education Partnership), teamed up again to develop an education programme for Somerset Art Weeks 2009Artists At Work
Artists At Work are a series of short films created by artists Kate Noble, Mark Parry and Bronwen Bradshaw.Young People’s Film Project – Artist’s Interviews
As part of the Art Weeks 2008 Education Programme, South Somerset District Council and The Engine Room worked together in supporting young film makers in the area understand more about the digital media industry by creating a video about artists participating in the Art Weeks.Young People’s Film and Animation Workshops 2008
Led by Stanchester Media Club, the Digital Double Decker Bus was toured within the South Somerset area to deliver digital media workshops to young people and schools.‘Transience’ – web artwork by Sue Palmer part of ‘Revealing The Landscape’
Sue Palmer has been commissioned to produce sound and video pieces to go on the Web and hand held PDAs. She is exploring migratory and transitory paths made by humans and non-humans across the Neroche landscape.Artists on Trains
Rail passengers travelling on two popular routes from Bristol Temple Meads – the lines to Taunton and to Weymouth have been involved in an exciting art project involving artists Bronwen Bradshaw, Jenni Dutton, and Leo Saunders.Studio Works
To celebrate this, 11 artists were invited to work with our guide designer Chantelle Henocq, graduate photographer Sebastian King and Somerset based writer David Davis, to produce a collection of images that are incorporated in the guide and other publicity materials.Landmarks
Landmarks was a multi-faceted arts, education and environment project devised and managed by SAW Ltd that was designed to provide opportunities for visual artists to “work with environmental agencies across Somerset” in order to “reconnect rural and urban communities to the land through the arts.”Triparks
Triparks was set in three different rural places, defined by political boundaries: Dartmoor, Exmoor and Northumberland National Parks.New Eyes
New Eyes aimed at showcasing the wealth of arts and crafts talent in the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The project offered opportunities for art activity and training for the arts and crafts sector in the Blackdown Hills. This project was managed by the artists themselves, and invited local artists and craftspeople to submit ideas to make work about the Blackdown Hills in any media they chose. http://www.bhaam.org.uk/project/In this section:
- Abundance
- The Avalon Project @ Glastonbury Festival 2013
- Safe Play Project with Knightstone Housing
- The Hunky Punks Project
- Art Weeks 09 Artists-in-school Programme
- Make, Create , Cultivate 2013 -14
- Young People’s Film Project – Artist’s Interviews
- Young People’s Film and Animation Workshops 2008
- ‘Transience’ – web artwork by Sue Palmer part of ‘Revealing The Landscape’
- Landmarks
- Maximum Exposure
- Local Networking Projects 2008
- Around here
- Artists on Trains
- Company of Voices – Making Matters
- Project Taunton
- Triparks
- River Parrett Revisited
- Safe Routes
- Revealing the Landscape
- Make the Most at Barrington Court
- New Eyes
- Studio Works
- Z-Twist-2014
- Artists At Work
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