Hand Earth Gesture Return - Sustainable Public Art for Coventry and Warwickshire

Exhibitions Featured on The Homepage

This experimental public art installation took place at Coventry Canal Basin 12-17 July 2022. A site-specific collaboration between visual artists from the UK and India: Rachael Champion, Dolon Kundu, Amy & Oliver Thomas-Irvine and Jim Woodall.

September 27, 2022

Events Featured on The Homepage

The Hairy Barge

Chapter 3 of Hand Earth Gesture Return

A moving sculptural intervention processioning the materials to the communities that will use them.

April 12, 2022

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Exhibitions Projects

Camp, Do We Go Around the Houses, or Do Houses Go Around Us?

Lucy Tomlins | Camp, Do We Go Around the Houses, or Do Houses Go Around Us?

Saturday 23 April – Sunday 26 June 2022 | Metropolis, Earl St, Coventry CV1 5RU

An installation comprising three shelters made from mycelium, Portland stone and cob. This artwork offers an innovative way to bring together considerations around sustainable materials with current concerns connected to immigration, homelessness and precarity.

April 11, 2022

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Hairy Barge Event Day

Saturday 26 March 12.30 – 3.30 pm | Coventry Canal Basin, CV1 4LY

FREE talks and workshops at the intersection of heritage, craft and contemporary art to mark the arrival of our straw harvest into Coventry.

March 1, 2022

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Wheat Field Harvest

Summer 2022 | Hatton Farm, Warwickshire

Growing our own long straw from Atle Spring wheat for use in installation Hand Earth gesture Return.

March 1, 2022

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The Seed

Chapter 1 of Hand Earth Gesture Return

A short film documenting an improvised collaborative drumming journey that took place before the wheat harvest in Hatton, Warwickshire.

October 3, 2021

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The Rick

Chapter 2 of Hand Earth Gesture Return

A temporary outdoor installation made of wheat straw, which takes inspiration from traditional thatched ricks.

October 1, 2021

Hand Earth Gesture Return Launch Event

Film Screening and Live Drumming Performance | August Bank Holiday Weekend, Daimler Powerhouse, Coventry

August 28, 2021

Liam Fallon

Friday 21 May – Saturday 22 August 2021 | PINK, Manchester

Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre and PINK are delighted to present Courtship, a sculptural installation by Liam Fallon.

May 4, 2021

Projects

God’s Workshop: Of Clay and Straw

A research programme foregrounding collaborative, sustainable and socially engaged practice. A new model for public art in which the build is turned into staged, performative events that the public can witness and participate in. Pilot in development for Coventry, City of Culture.

April 3, 2021

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Interviews Talks

Fabrication Talks Season

WATCH AGAIN – Hosted by Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre and Henry Moore Institute, this series of online roundtable discussions and in-conversation events with artists, fabricators and academics between April and July 2021 explored the relationship between artists and skilled fabricators.

March 31, 2021

Emily Stollery

Thursday 20 February – Saturday 14 March 2020 | Four/Four, Nottingham

Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre and Four/Four are delighted to present Emily Stollery, Tangible Nothings and Momentary Happenings.

January 13, 2020

Yelena Popova

Friday 7 February – Thursday 27 March 2020 | The Holden Gallery, Manchester

Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre and the Holden Gallery are delighted to present Yelena Popova, ‘The Scholar Stones Project’. Working across a range of media including installation, painting and tapestry, Popova’s interdisciplinary project addresses an ongoing fascination with nuclear history and materiality.

January 7, 2020

Awards

Sculpture Production Award 2019

We are delighted to announce that the Sculpture Production Award 2019 recipients are Katrina Cowling, Liam Fallon, Andrew Gillespie, Suzi Osborn, Yelena Popova and Emily Stollery. Katrina has also been selected to exhibit at the Coventry Biennial this October.

January 6, 2020

Awards

Birmingham Hippodrome 120 Sculpture Commission

‘Tower of Varieties’ by Rachael Champion is now open

Winner of the Hippodrome 120 Sculpture Commission

October 28, 2019

Katrina Cowling

Fri 4 October 2019 – Sat 24 November 2019 | The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry

Artist Katrina Cowling has been selected to exhibit at the Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art this October, where she will exhibit her new installation Of Brightworks and Edgelands developed with the support of our Sculpture Production Award.

September 16, 2019

Andrew Gillespie

Friday 11 October 2019 – Friday 8 November 2019 | Gallery Celine, Glasgow

Artist Andrew Gillespie will exhibit a new constellation of artworks at Gallery Celine this October, developed with the support of our Sculpture Production Award.

September 16, 2019

Nicola Ellis, Chemistry and magic straight down the line installation view. Image Credit GS Visuals

The Making of No Particular Place to Go?

Wednesday 11 September, 6.30–8pm | Castlefield Gallery, 2 Hewitt Street, Manchester, M15 4GB

Join Lucy Tomlins, Director of Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre, in conversation with Castlefield Gallery Curator Matthew Pendergast and No Particular Place to Go? – 35 years of sculpture at Castlefield Gallery guest Curators Dr Clare O’Dowd and John Plowman, alongside exhibiting artist Nicola Ellis .

September 10, 2019

Georgina Sleap Castellano

August 26, 2019

Announcing details of our PARC Residency, Summer 2019 Castellano

August 26, 2019

PARC EXHIBITION CASTELLANO

August 26, 2019

PARC EXHIBITION VALENCIÀ

August 26, 2019

PARC EXHIBITION

28 August – 3 September | Ethnographic Museum, Vall d’Alba, Castellón, Spain

PARC Exhibition: Katrin Hanusch, Àngels Miralda, Georgina Sleap & Lucy Tomlins

August 5, 2019

INTERVIEWS

Georgina Sleap Letters

Part two of our interview following this residency at the Fayoum Art Center, Egypt

Read the amazing letters Georgie has sent us over the past eight months

June 28, 2019

PARC Residency, Castellón, Spain – Summer 2019

8 August – 3 September 2019

The summer 2019 residency brought together curator-in-residence Àngels Miralda with artists-in-residence Katrin Hanusch, Georgina Sleap and Lucy Tomlins.

June 27, 2019

How to Work with a Fabricator

Wednesday 24 April, 6.30–8pm | STEAMhouse, 108 Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 6DT

PSC Co-Director Lucy Tomlins with be at STEAMhouse in Birmingham to talk through the process and practicalities of working with a fabricator, how you scope out and specify a job, how these relationships work, and things to consider to ensure things run smoothly.

April 8, 2019

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Publications

Sculpture-related texts and publications

New! PARTICIPATE Toolkit – A Guide for Artists Looking to Develop Community Engaged Art Projects. Download for free.

February 10, 2019

International Artists’ Residency

Castellón Province, Spain

Details on all the Pangaea Artists’ Residency, Castellòn Province, Spain to date.

November 22, 2018

Interviews

The Industry of Sculpture

Understanding Process and Practice

A collection of interviews with leading sculpture-related professionals to better understand the world(s) in which they operate, what they do and what their needs are. It aims to disseminate the first-hand knowledge of our interviewees and reveal and contextualise what they do.

October 24, 2018

Event Events Featured on The Homepage

Festival of Making | PARTICIPATE Commissions

In Bristol Studio, Great Western Lane, Bristol BS5 9B | Saturday 29 September 2018, 10 am – 6 pm

PSC collaborated with In Bristol Studio to deliver three commissions as part of the Festival of Making 2018.

August 28, 2018

Events Talks

Artists’ walk and talk with Katrin Hanusch & Silvina Soria

Castellón Province, Spain | 24 February 2018

See new art being made in the landscape.

February 8, 2018

Exhibitions Programme

Sculpture At Bermondsey Square

Bermondsey, London

Charlie Godet Thomas
3 October 2017 – 30 March 2018

March 11, 2017

Adeline de Monseignat

The 2017 winner of the Deutsche Bank Trophy Commission

January 29, 2017

Workshops

Custom-built Education

Sulpture as a tool for wider learning.

Encouraging engagement at an early age can teach skills in science, engineering, maths and construction via the back door to children that are better suited to learning about these subjects through practical application.

July 10, 2016

Workshops

Materials Demonstration

London Fields, 13 October 2015

Arthur Manzo from W P Notcutt Ltd, leading supplier of mould making and casting materials, demonstrates a range of materials, such as different rubbers, resins and Jesmonite products.

June 28, 2016

Artists' Consultancy

News Forms of Studio Provisions

A collaboration with muf architecture/art | July 2015

Research into the design of new forms of studio and workshop provisions that better reflect the contemporary working methods of sculptors and three-dimensional art practitioners.

June 28, 2016

Frances Richardson, Sculpture at Bermondsey Square

Bermondsey, London | 20 September 2015 – 10 March 2016

Loss of object and bondage to it; Fig. 2 by Frances Richardson is the third public sculpture commission for ‘Sculpture at Bermondsey Square’, a unique opportunity for an early or mid-career artist to work on a major public artwork. Richardson’s sculptural practice is an inquiry into the relationship between embodied cognition of architecture and human agency.

December 13, 2015

Calendar

2015 Public Programme

Schedule & Details

November 30, 2015

Which One of These is the Non-smoking Lifeboat?

London Fields | 19 November 2015 – 9 December 2015

November 30, 2015

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Life Cycle, Continuous

London Fields, 3 December 2015

November 30, 2015

Autumn Artists’ Residency

PSC’s Project Space, London Fields, London | 2015

The aim of the 2015 programme was to support excellence, innovation and the critical practice of three-dimensional art and to facilitate professional-development opportunities for artists committed to producing ambitious sculptural works.

November 30, 2015

Ambition and Afterlife – Visit to Heatherwick Studio Archive

Gray’s Inn Road, London | 26 November 2015

October 22, 2015

Workshops

Installing Artworks beyond the White Cube

London Fields, 11 November 2015

October 21, 2015

Doing it in Public

London Fields, 12 November 2015

October 21, 2015

Public Sculpture, Public Art – Alex Chinneck & Megan Piper

NOW Gallery, Greenwich | 22 October 2015

October 16, 2015

Taking Shape: Sculpture on the Verge

Art Licks Weekend 01 – 04 October 2015

September 14, 2015

Events Talks

Public Sculpture, from Process to Place

Bermondsey, London | 28 September 2015

September 9, 2015

The Bricklayer and the Artist

#TransActing: A Market of Values, London; 11 July 2015

June 22, 2015

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Sculpture-Forward

Exploring contemporary sculptural practice

June 13, 2015

Residency in a Record Store 2015

Selected Artist: John Lawrence

June 3, 2015

Residency in a Record Store Exhibition

John Lawrence: 08 May – 10 June 2015

June 3, 2015

Squares and Triangles

Live performance 10 June 2015

June 2, 2015

Meetup – From Idea to Object

For fabricators, makers and other creators | 2014/15

April 4, 2015

Tea and a Slice of Reality with Richard Wilson

Greenwich, London | June 2013

March 25, 2014

Open Lecture

Latimer Road, London | December 2013

March 25, 2014

True or False: There’s No Such Thing as Sculpture

Old Street, London | July 2013

A panel discussion with Liliane Lijn, Elizabeth Neilson, Ossian Ward, Toby Ziegler and Sacha Craddock as Chair.

March 25, 2014

Are You Sitting Down? Screening Sculpture in/as Moving Image

Mile End, London | January 2014

A film screening featuring films and videos selected by sculptors and other artists who are interested in engaging with sculpture through the medium of moving image. It also explored the reciprocal relationship(s) between these two art forms.

March 24, 2014