RESIDENTIAL COURSE: Product Design with Artist Sarah Staton
Details
Dates: 30 May 2023 to 01 June 2023
Price
£250–£380 per person
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Places limited to 4 residential students, price includes full board at The Farmer’s Arms, living in above the workshop in The Farmer’s Loft with food cooked by Chef Alistair Debling.
Cost including full board & meals £380
Non-residential but including meals £250
Arrival on Tuesday morning with workshops running throughout the days and leaving on Thursday afternoon.
If you do not have the means to pay for a ticket, we have a budget that enables us to provide one bursary place at 50% off for people with low incomes, who are unemployed or have other accessibility needs. Please contact us to register.
If you are travelling by train, we will offer a shuttle service to and from the nearest station, Ulverston.
Venue
The Farmer’s Arms, Lowick Green – LA12 8DT
Join celebrated artist and head of sculpture at the Royal College of Art, Sarah Staton, as she leads this three-day product design course unlocking the potential of local materials.
Places limited to 4 students, price includes full board at The Farmer’s Arms, living above the workshop in The Farmer’s Loft with food cooked by Chef Alistair Debling.
A different kind of residential workshop, students will work with Sarah to design and develop new products drawing from available materials and resources around The Farmer’s Arms and engaging the skills of local crafts people and participating students. Working in The Farmer’s Arms pottery, you’ll explore new ways of working with clay, slate, wool and wood.
Alongside Sarah, you’ll work with The Farmer’s Arms workshop team, who will introduce new techniques and skills to support students to develop product protypes. Tom Philipson, Simon Athersmith, Pippa Martin, Francis Lloyd-Jones and Adam Sutherland will all contribute to the making process offering help and instruction with materials and techniques.
Understanding the thinking and adding to the evolution and development of the works with Sarah and The Farmer’s Arms team, through the action of making, you’ll be set tasks to collaboratively design and progress new products that could later form part of The Farmer’s Arms product range.
“I look forward to seeing how Sarah works with both the skills of the students and resident craftspeople at the Farmer’s Arms. Many of the locally available materials are ‘well worn’, the slate, wool, and coppice products have somewhat predicable outcomes, I know that Sarah will find ways to unlock the further potential of these materials, connecting up with bigger ideas around design, sculpture and product.” Adam Sutherland, Grizedale Arts Director
ABOUT YOUR TUTOR:
Sarah first came to notice in the early 1990’s with her huge exhausted broken glass old colonial ‘Flag’ spread across the Serpentine Lawn in the proto YBas exhibition ‘Broken English’. Sarah is also celebrated for her SupaStore, a functional (merchandising) ever mutating artwork which collapses categories of the shop and gallery and offers fresh perspectives on the practice of art consumption. Sarah creates sculptures for a variety of contexts including the public realm. Through references to utilitarianism, and a use of synthetic and natural materials, she creates spaces and objects that are marked by their socio-economic reality, seeking a modest purpose – to enable revelry and reverie. As well as commissions and exhibitions, Sarah is also the head of sculpture at the Royal College of Art.
Through a focus on multiples and editions, Staton invites us to reconsider ideals of exclusivity and authenticity. She continues to play with the processes and conventions of art production through the medium of sculpture, painting and the exhibition.
