Ella's Fine Art Foundation Degree

Arts development organisations have an intermediary role between artists and society. They typically work to use and apply the creative arts to help improve opportunities and quality of life in a given location. Some have a central space from which they set up projects, while  others are more organic. They periodically apply for core funding to pay specific staff and run a programme that engages and enables people. Unlike many galleries, they emphasise empowering people rather than profiling artists. Artcore - Derby "It is an international centre for contemporary art and creativity based in Derby, UK, and is home to Artcore Gallery, studios and workspaces, and a shop and cafe. A vibrant hub for commissioning, production, presentation and debate, we offer opportunities for diverse audiences to engage directly with creative practices through participation and discussion. At Artcore Gallery, contemporary art and creativity are central to developing people and places. We have an ext

Born in Cambridge, Tom Hackett is a sculptor who studied fine art at Middlesex and Nottingham Trent Universities. He is a small artist based in Nottingham who focuses on sculpture and practical art pieces, such as acting out something or wearing something. He profits from these pieces of art and  exhibitions.  In addition to making art, he also lectures and teaches at Nottingham College to support himself and his family. As someone who has been in his lectures, I find the information that he gives out to be very helpful because it gives us an insight into what life as a small artist can be like; you can make some profit from it, but not enough to go full time.  Hackett has an established reputation for his multiple sculptural installations, exhibitions, and performative interventions at contemporary art galleries and in the wider public. He makes sculptures across a wide range of media and concepts. "My work is about several inter-relating strands. None stand alone. Central to muc

Sculptor Rachel Carter works from The Garden Studio on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border. She uses the lost wax technique to create bronze works on a large scale for the garden and smaller, intimate sculptures for the home. All of this work inspired Carter to eventually create Standing In This Place . “Throughout my professional practice, since graduating with a BA Hons in Applied Arts, I have found myself driven by process and material in sculpture. For the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower sailing in 2020, I was commissioned to create a new series of work for the Pilgrim Roots districts. The ‘Pilgrim Woman’ sculptures combined my hand-woven work alongside community weaving, which was cast in bronze, a plus life-size pilgrim stands in the Danum Gallery, Doncaster, a smaller version on the banks of the River Trent in Gainsborough, and the third Pilgrim Sculpture is in Boston, Lincolnshire.” “Many of my commissions are underpinned by my love of history and ancestry, and I feel hono

As someone who prefers to work with digital art rather than traditional, I can draw inspiration from Mik Godley, an artist who uses an iPad and mobile phone, rather than a traditional art school lecturer based in Nottingham. He is a painter who uses both traditional painting techniques and digital technology. This exhibition is a major presentation of Mik's ongoing body of work, ' Considering Silesia ,' which began in 2003 and has been the focus of his work for almost twenty years.  Mik’s work has been exhibited from San Francisco and Baltimore to Zagreb, featured in several publications, and received awards and critical acclaim. "Considering Silesia brings together the largest and most comprehensive selection to date of paintings, drawings and prints by Nottingham-based artist Mik Godley. But rather than an unfocused retrospective, this exhibition concentrates specifically on works made as an oblique response to his own family’s connection to – and wartime displacemen