Stream

Alongside our exhibitions, filmmakers document our programme through recordings, livestreams and short films. You can watch and listen back to the films and audio from previous seasons below.

Thinking Through Making:
Ursula Rose Rae

Considering how artists dream up ideas and make them a reality, our ‘Show & Tell’ talk series focuses on platforming artists and creatives from the local region who work nationally and internationally. As part of our exhibition, ‘Our Common Mercies’, artist Ursula Rose Rae spoke to us about ‘thinking through making’ and celebrating collective making. The talk was recorded on 11th May 2023.

Ursula Rose Rae is an artist and our Learning Programmer at Modern Painters, New Decorators. A multimedia artist with a background in textiles, her practice is rooted in process and tactile exploration. Ursula spoke through a range of projects that highlighted key threads that are essential in how she works today. Working collaboratively in creating and providing workshops, Ursula expressed a continued enjoyment for operating without a set goal, instead simply making together and sharing ideas.

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Breaking Barriers:
Nicola Middler and Lucy Stevens

Considering how artists dream up ideas and make them a reality, our ‘Show & Tell’ talk series focuses on platforming artists and creatives from the local region who work nationally and internationally.  Nicola Middler and Lucy Stevens joined us from Charnwood Arts and the Urban Forest: a community space bringing the essence of Charnwood Forest into Loughborough Town.

Nicola has worked for the Affordable Art Fair, trained as a primary school teacher, and produced and delivered arts festivals across the UK. Lucy is a multidisciplinary artist exploring our relationship with the natural environment. Her work interprets birdsong, museum collections and conservation data into mixed media abstract portraits on paper and sound works. Nicola spoke about creative methodology as problem-solving and an interest in communicating with people when approaching artworks. Breaking down barriers to art accessibility and opportunity, Nicola and Lucy discussed The Urban Forest as a way to engage the community with their local landscape through arts-based programming and a chance for creatives to collaborate, forming positive future relationships, opportunities and legacies.

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Archive Fever:
Joshua & Josie Jones

In response to our 2022 Archive Fever exhibitions, this multi-screen installation shows interviews with six artists and contributors about the Leicestershire Museums Collection. Their conversations cover an array of topics, from nostalgia, conspiracy theories, preservation, and the personal responses they had to the objects within the archives. The film was shown at Institute Research Lab as part of Loughborough Lates in November 2022.

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Hold Up:
Lulu Senft

Hold Up was an online project produced during the pandemic in collaboration with Collective Matter. Hold Up explores ideas of support, grief and narrative, focusing on one of Lulu's primary materials - clay. Lulu’s work is often made up of figures, busts, and faces created using tactile, expressive materials. Alongside behind the scenes footage, stop-motion animation, music and creative writing, the film unpacks the exhibition through numerous creative narratives; inviting you to join us from the comforts of your own home.

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The Good Life

'The Good Life' was an exhibition about utopia and townships, by members of Modern Painters, New Decorators. The starting points for this exhibition were two Costa Rican sayings. The phrase ‘Pura Vida’ which means the simple life or pure life and the saying ‘if you have a church, a bar, and a football pitch, then you have a town’, which is a simple metaphor for life, and has also been suggested to be the constitute elements of each town or community.

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The Stories We Share

The Stories We Share is a series of films which share the stories behind the exhibitions and events we make. The film details our early events as Modern Painters, New Decorators alongside interviews with Jackie Berridge, Sam Francis Read, Tom Sewell and Chris Thornhill.

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