The A Word - Exploring art with words: Recent Episodes
ArtHouse Jersey
ArtHouse Jersey are soon to launch the huge-scale interactive art exhibition Skipton Big Ideas at the St Helier Town Church. The event, which is open to the public for three weeks from Thursday 14 October, is an exhibition on a scale never before seen in the Island that has been designed for everyone in the local community.
The Church has long been the home of society's big ideas, not only in the context of faith, but in times gone by law and politics too. Here Carrie Cooper speaks with The Dean of Jersey, The Very Reverend Michael Keirle one month ahead of the exhibition’s launch, to discuss his passion for the arts, the history of the church itself and the intersection between art and faith.
In this fourth episode of the A Word Carrie Cooper is conversation with Jersey Finance CEO Joe Moynihan and Deputy Chief Executive Amy Bryant.
Here they discuss creativity's prevalence in the sector, the challenge of attracting young creatively minded people and the importance of innovation at every level of their output.
Thomas Buckley is the lead artist behind ‘Society of Cocktails’ and an associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was also the designer and creator of the 'Memory Box' project as commissioned by ArtHouse Jersey. The boxes cleverly employed technology through sound, projection and projection to ignite all of a recipient’s senses to bring a memory to life. There were also scents and objects to add a visceral connection to the narrative being told.
During the delivery period of the memory boxes Thomas Buckleys was nestled into one of the art studios at Greve de Lecq Barracks where he finished the build of the boxes cleaned and repaired so they could all stay out on the road.
ArtHouse Jersey director Tom Dingle caught up with Thomas Buckley to learn more about both himself and his work.
Sue Hill is a visual artist, performer, curator and theatre-maker, Landscape Director of WildWorks (www.wildworks.biz) and member of Eden Project International. She has worked with many companies including Welfare State International, Emergency Exit Arts, Walk the Plank Theatre Ship and the National Theatre in London.
She is also the facilitator of ArtHouse Jersey's renowned annual 'Artist Lock In'.
Here she is in conversation with Carrie Cooper.
A new podcast series for ArtHouse Jersey, ‘The A Word’ invites insights from artists, creators and decision-makers who make the arts happen, here in Jersey and around the world.
The podcast kicks off with Carrie Cooper interviewing the Assistant Minister for Economic Development, Deputy Kirsten Morel, the man who has been given responsibility for arts, culture and heritage in the Island.
During the twenty-minute conversation, Deputy Morel talks frankly about funding for arts and culture, the possibility of a cultural hub and the importance of the new arts strategy that he hopes to be completed this year.