‘College isn’t for me’
10th August 2018
Anna, 22, has been with Arts Lab since it started in 2016 both as a regular attendee of our workshops and as a young artist volunteer. Having successfully got into...
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‘I curated my first exhibition before going to college’
20th July 2018
Jordan, 22, was on the Arts Lab team for a few months between 2017 and 2018. Building bridges between young, Totnesian creatives and opportunities made available by Arts Lab, he...
Having worked in business all my life, I find art gives deeper meaning
28th June 2018
STUART is a Totnes-based, self-taught artist who’s spent most of his life working in business. He took up a ‘Splash’ residency at Arts Lab for a weekend, showing his paintings...
3D Cereal Spiders
12th April 2018
Inventive ways of recycling packaging cardboard and cereal boxes...
Mia’s testing ground for new audiences
29th March 2018
Between her Art Foundation Course and beginning undergraduate studies, Mia, 21, tested the ground at the Lab for engaging new audiences. With a passion for inclusion through art, in 2018...
Tansy dreams of becoming a film director
28th February 2018
At 16, whilst Tansy was studying Film, Photography and English at A level at the local secondary school, she became the Lab’s volunteer film-maker. She has produced 5 films for Arts...
Improvisation
10th October 2017
…. what turned into an outburst of abstract expressionism with swathes of paper and squeegy bottles of paint - disused credit cards replacing paint brushes. ...
Black Mountain College
4th October 2017
During the first months of Arts Lab’s, Black Mountain College of Fine Arts and Progressive Education (1933-57) cropped up in conversation more than once. Arts Lab’s focus is increasingly moving...