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Artist workshops are held at The Bullpen to promote learning, making and the exchange of ideas. Artist networking and exhibitions are prominent, but the main emphasis of our artist workshops are for professional creative development, challenging artistic practice and finding time to make new work in a supportive and dynamic environment. At each workshop, guest speakers are invited to share their practice with the participating artists through evening talks/lectures. Artist workshops are run for professional creative practitioners, however, we strongly believe in making arts processes accessible and avaliable to all. During our artist workshops, school/community groups and visitor workshops are run alongside. Visitors are given the opportunity to watch artists at work, make their own work alongside the artists and receive tuition and guidance through processes and ideas.
Workshops are on offer, covering a wide range of techniques and processes. Interactive learning opportunities are available, from first-hand observation of artists at work and through demonstrations. Open studios present an educational resource and hands-on learning experiences.
The Bullpen is developing cultural richness, raising awareness of art locally and bringing contemporary visual arts to the rural community. Talks and lectures are held on the premises, with permanant and temporary exhibitions of leading local artists' work and demonstrations given. Workshops target all age groups.
The farm business is diversifying in order to maintain the economic vitality of the rural community - and The Bullpen, in all its elements, aids the farm diversification process.
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Visitors and community groups joined artists for The Bullpen Big Draw.
The Bullpen offered its local community the opportunity to take part in drawing activities each day throughout the halfterm holiday. Groups took part in drawing workshops at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and then made huge collaborative drawings in sand, which were cast into iron by the artists at the Iron Pour. Watch this space - drawings and castings will be mounted for exhibition in The Bullpen Gallery...
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Throughout the workshop, artists worked in the foundry to create moulds using resin-bonded sand, ceramic shell or clay/dung slurry. The Pour Day was an extraordinary event, to which the public were invited - the furnace was operated by the artist-pour crew, and the iron poured into the artists' moulds. Artists enjoyed a research trip to Pitt Rivers Museum, tuition from experienced artist iron-casters, and the opportunity to work closely as a team in the foundry and studios. Some of the sculpture, along with the moulds, will be displayed in the Museum from November until the end of January 2012.
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