AUDIO ARTWORK LAUNCH
OPENING: 17/06/17 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM | FREE
Launch: Sat 17 June 11am-3pm, with artist’s talk at 1:30pm
NetPark Open Day
Metal, Chalkwell Hall, Chalkwell Park, Southend-on-Sea SS0 8NB
Woodland: French & Mottershead
Woodland is an audio work that describes your body’s fade into the leaf litter of a forest floor.
PUNK MEETS ROSES MEETS ART MEETS TECH
Spiky Black is a new site-specific audio artwork for NetPark – the world’s first digital art park.
A collaboration between artists Alison Carlier & Amanda Loomes in partnership with Metal Southend.
Dates: Mon 3 – Thurs 6 April (10am – 5.30pm each day – with live gig on Thurs evening) Venue: Chalkwell Hall (in Chalkwell Park) Chalkwell Avenue, Southend SS0 8NB. The Project SoSlam are working with Metal to run a Culture LAB for young singer / songwriters from across the Borough of Southend-on-Sea. Up […]
Following a great deal of work at Metal Art School, we are proud to announce the launch of The Garden of Remember…
Love Grays 25 February, Grays High Street Join us for the launch of Love Grays – the launch of a year of events in Grays, ranging from a food festival, outdoor cinema screening, art trail and lots more. The launch event on the 25 Feb is celebrating the town centre and the brilliant community and cultural organisations […]
Crafting the Future of Thurrock; Craft Trade School MAKER BRIEF The Crafts Council, Thurrock Council and Metal Culture are looking for traditional craft practitioners to plan and deliver workshops on the new education programme Craft Trade School. The project is a new initiative to up-skill young people working in, or looking to work in, construction, […]
Jon Kipps is a Visual Artist from Southend who has organised Village Green’s Artist Village this year. Kipps’ artistic work spans sculpture, painting, photography and performance. He has always been interested in the relationship between artwork music and ways of experiencing the two together. For Artist Village Kipps has invited 8 artists, some local to […]
ESTUARY 2016 17 September – 2 October 2016 For more information, see Estuary website. Estuary is a new, biennial arts festival curated in response to the spectacular Thames Estuary and presented in culturally significant and historic venues along the Essex and Kent shorelines. An exciting mix of new and existing works will pull together powerful […]
The People Department at Southend-on-Sea Borough Council have been awarded funds to enable a series of workshops with people living with dementia and their families at Metal. The project will work with the digital art Apps and media studio at our innovative NetPark project and will be based in our new Metal Art School. […]
Culture Labs are a week-long residency opportunity for a group of artists, from different disciplines, to share a space and explore an emergent area of practice. From 2 – 6 March, Metal Liverpool hosted a lab which explored the area of ‘Immersive’ practice across the disciplines of sound, moving image, visual art and performance. The […]
Metal is delighted to announce the opening of the exhibition ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ by Tabitha Jussa at the Bluecoat, a solo exhibition which was awarded as part of her 2014 Liverpool Art Prize win. Focussing on social planning, Tabitha Jussa’s artwork will be contrasting Liverpool with the burgeoning city wide developments of Shanghai – Liverpool’s […]
Metal were commissioned by CREST (Community Retrofit Through Sustainable Technologies) at Southend Borough Council to run six in-school creative sustainability workshops for the ‘House of the Future’ project.