A curated exhibition by Urban Wilderness exploring what public art can be during a pandemic.
23 September - 31 October 2021
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Urban Wilderness CIC are delighted to announce the successful artists who will be working at Fawley, Southhampton, and West Burton, Gainsborough
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What is public art, what can it be and where can it take place in a post-pandemic world?
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Urban Wilderness are delighted to announce the 2021 cohort of artists who will be working with them on the six-months development programme ‘Wastelands: Public Art Now!’
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Urban Wilderness are supporting a local community of volunteers to bring a community garden, formerly known as St Giles Community Garden, back into use for their neighbourhood.
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Urban Wilderness have launched the Tomorrowland project with a public exhibition at The Potteries Centre…
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Urban Wilderness want to hear about your skills and your passions, and what you think would make your world a little better.
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This short zine is our gift to you to share and celebrate creative ways that people from Stoke have risen to meet the challenging restrictions of the pandemic during a Midlands winter.
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Brought to you by the Immaculate Sisters of Hartshill Park as part of our Winter Wastelands program exploring creative ways of dealing with difficult emotions during winter 2020.
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#ouryouthgrows is a series of three audio stories by Potboiler Theatre, set in Hanley Park and inspired by young people’s experiences of our outdoor spaces. The series was launched by a Twitter listening party on Sunday 29th November and can be listened to in Hanley Park by collecting a postcard from the Pavillion Cafe and scanning the QR code.
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We are proud to present our Wastelands project from Summer 2020. We commissioned 5 artists to create new work in response to lockdown and their local green spaces. View the website here - wastelands.online
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The Weight of Things is a new artwork by David Bethell commissioned by Urban Wilderness as part of the Wastelands project. This gravity defying sculpture is free to visit at Keele University’s Lake 3 from now until Feb 2021.
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The Mining Migrations exhibition is installed at Chatterley Whitfield Nature Reserve and can be visited until 20th November 2020. It is part of the Being Human Festival, the UK’s only national festival of the humanities and is supported by audio histories by Ben Anderson of Keele University.
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Wastelands artist Adina Lawrence launched a photography exhibition in Hanley to coincide with Black History Month. You are invited to see Diverse Landscapes - a celebration of the beautiful landscapes and people of Stoke and North Staffordshire. The exhibition of twenty-one portraits is on display in the old Body Shop on Stafford St, Hanley.
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