Urban Wilderness CIC hosted a Giant Lantern Puppet Masterclass with Andrew Kim, where artists and volunteers designed and built large-scale puppets for the Winter 2025 production, developing skills in puppet making and performance.
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Urban Wilderness CIC commissioned sculptor Raphael Daden to create a Sky Works canopy installation in Longton, combining light and birdsong to explore the absence of nature in the town centre and reimagine the public realm after dark.
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Urban Wilderness CIC hosted a two-day professional workshop with inflatables designer Tim Davies, training local artists to design and build large-scale inflatable props for carnival and outdoor arts.
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A temporary public sculpture by artist David Bethell, commissioned by Urban Wilderness CIC, exploring heritage, fragility and hope through precariously balanced architectural forms.
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A temporary public artwork by Anna Berry, commissioned by Urban Wilderness CIC, exploring resilience, heritage and renewal through a sculptural response to Longton’s urban buddleia.
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Urban Wilderness CIC co-created the Garden of Possibilities with young people from 42nd Street for the National Trust’s Castlefield Viaduct — a quiet, restorative space shaped by youth voice and urban nature.
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ALIGNMENT is a material-rich installation by Natalia Kasprzycka built from Etruria marl clay, waste bricks and found objects at Burslem Port. Commissioned for The Happenings 2021, it explores slow decay, site history and the transformation of industrial landscape.
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“Reconnect & Grow” is a living installation by Tracey Meek at Longton Exchange (Oct-Nov 2021), pairing fungi, moss and organic materials to question our relationship with nature and propose new symbiotic ecosystems in public art.
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Arkadia is a large-scale installation by artists Stephanie Rushton and Mally Mallinson, installed at Longton Exchange in Sept-Oct 2021. Drawing on dystopian and post-human narratives, it transforms found materials, plants and imagery to challenge our relationship with nature, consumerism and climate change.
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The Happenings festival in Stoke-on-Trent explored small-scale, site-specific public art, activating overlooked urban spaces through creativity, care, and connection.
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A reflective ceramics project exploring pause, return and transform, created through online and in-studio making sessions during lockdown. Clay Comrades produced raku-fired cubes that capture personal reflections from 2020 and the importance of staying connected as a creative community.
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The Weight of Things is an outdoor sculpture by David Bethell, hand-carved from polystyrene and covered with fibre-glass, sand, and paint. Installed in Keele Woods, the floating rock sculpture evokes hope and despair simultaneously, inspired by Rene Magritte’s 1953 painting Clear Ideas. The work encourages reflection on impermanence and resilience in challenging times.
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A co-created wooden vessel rising from the earth — a public art sculpture made with young people and artist David Bethell for the Forest Worlds Festival 2019.
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