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Congratulations to Time & Space Residency & Estuary artist Caroline Bergvall! Caroline spent time here at Chalkwell Hall developing her powerful vocal work Raga Dawn for Estuary Festival. Following on from her success earlier this year with the Society of Authors’ Cholmondeley Awards for Poets, Caroline Bergvall was presented with the inaugural Prix Bernard Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou, funded […]

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Back by popular demand!  

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We’re looking forward to welcoming the big Silk River walking group to Chalkwell Hall for some much needed refreshments and a little Netpark break before they continue their journey… Part of Totally Thames 2017. SEE ALSO MARIA ARCEO: FUTURE DUST

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Brilliant artist Maria Arceo has for some time been working on her large scale installation FUTURE DUST – regularly coming back to Metal Southend to stay at Chalkwell Hall on Time & Space Residency  – to develop her work and to comb the beaches for her material; the all-too common plastic detritus discarded by humans or washed up by […]

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Meet the second cohort of Metal’s TOMA – an artist instigated alternative MA founded by Emma Edmondson. The new group kick off on the educational programme in September 2017…   Laura Adamson Laura Adamson is a London based multidisciplinary artist exploring emotional states of being through collage, costume, video and performance. Her creation of imaginary creatures invites the viewer […]

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Massive congratulations to amazing comedian, writer, and art historian Hannah Gadsby on her much-deserved win in the comedy awards up at the Edinburgh Fringe. Hannah spent some time here at Chalkwell Hall last year writing and distilling ideas, and she was a joy to have around. Her show ‘Nanette’ has been getting uproarious response across the […]

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We’re very much looking forward to our next Future Park which is not far away; just in sight beyond our summer break. We’ve got big talks from exciting artist Sophie Chapman who collaborates with Kerri Jefferis, and you’ll get to meet the new artists who will comprise the cohort of boundary-pushing Alternative Art Education Model TOMA 2017-18, who will all be doing […]

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        A wealth of experience & collaborative skill will be used playfully in the TOMA take-over of the Beecroft Art Gallery by the “budding” artists of the 2016-17 cohort. It’s been a jam-packed year, and 2017-18 looks set to be just as wonderful…

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In the house on Time And Space Residency we have artist Anita Delaney… Having worked mainly in moving image, her practice is expanding to include sculpture and installation. She intends to use her time at Metal Southend to develop a script for a new moving image work as well as develop drawings and sketches for new […]

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    Some beautiful work being created on our Summer Art School here in Chalkwell Park… They made secret sketchbooks of drawings of Chalkwell Park nature, then turned the drawings into mono prints!  

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This week we are working with the Gateway Academy in Tilbury for our Craft Trade School! We’re here for the whole week running workshops in ceramics, leather work, millinery, textiles and Ikat dying; working with the young people to up-skill them in traditional techniques and thinking about how to build a career in craft. MAKERS: […]

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This has been an amazing process from start to finish – from talking plans with SoSlam, to hosting the week-long Young Songwriters LAB here at Chalkwell Hall, to attending the warm-up gigs where the Songwriters bravely previewed their new work live, to their amazingly professional performances at both Village Green and Village Green Next Generation. […]

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