carreg creative

a partnership between Lindsey Colbourne and Lisa Hudson

What is Carreg Creative?

Mae Carreg Creative yn bartneriaeth sy’n dylunio, darparu a chefnogi ymarfer sy’n ymgysylltu’n gymdeithasol ac yn amgylcheddol er mwyn archwilio’r posibilrwydd o fyd mwy cysylltiedig.

Carreg Creative is a partnership between artists Lisa Hudson and Lindsey Colbourne.

We design, deliver and support socially and environmentally engaged creative practice in order to creatively explore the possibility of a more connected world. We facilitate situations in which entanglement can occur, in order to create a better world for the human and more than human. 

We offer:

  • One off advice/sounding board

  • Longer term mentoring/coaching

  • Learning and training

  • Research and evaluation

  • Project coordination

  • Documentation

  • Curation

  • Community engagement

  • Designing processes

  • Facilitation

  • Partnership/collaboration agreements

  • Designing and coordinating effective commissions and calls outs for engaged creative processes, including advice on how to work with creatives and communities

  • Adding creative, engaged elements to conferences

Below, we give more information about our approach, rates, and examples of our work. If you would like to have an initial chat, please get in touch with us on carregcreative@gmail.com

Our own practice:

As well as supporting others in their socially and environmentally engaged practice, we undertake our own projects which bring together four different elements:

  • Design and facilitation of engaged process

  • Collaborative enquiry

  • Art production

  • Creative research


history

Llif/Flow, 2017

Established in 2023, Carreg Creative is a formalisation of ten years of Lindsey and Lisa working together to design, deliver and support socially and environmentally engaged creative practice. As well as delivering our own projects, we increasingly found that others have asked us to help them with theirs.

We are based in Eryri, North Wales.

We work bilingually Cymraeg - English.

Rates

Our rates are flexible, we want our services to be accessible, but also to be able to survive. Indicative rates are:

  • If providing services for an individual or community organisation or collective, rates are negotiated from £25 - £70 /hour

  • If providing services for an organization, rates would typically start at £360/day.


Principles

  • Cocreation - we work with, rather than deliver to. We will work within a Culture of Care, negotiating how we work together on each project according to the needs of everyone involved

  • Flow - We will work to timeframes that respect effective process, working in a way that creates the conditions for the unexpected to emerge, rather than aiming for fixed outcomes. What we deliver will be a real and authentic reflection of the process and project including unexpected results and documenting the twists and turns of the journey

  • Creativity - We will work with the functions of imagination to think outside the box, bringing creativity to even the tiniest things, questioning norms and trying out new things.

  • Learning - We will evaluate and learn as a continuous process, seeking to adapt and change as a result.




Contact

carregcreative@gmail.com

Tân a Llif – [sut i fynd] i mewn ac allan o’r cabinet: [how to get] into and out of the cabinet

Ar gyfer ein comisiwn, mae Carreg Creative (Lisa Hudson a Lindsey Colbourne gyda Wanda Zyborska) yn gwahodd pobl greadigol lle mae eu hymarfer yn canolbwyntio ar gydweithio, proses ac ymgysylltu, i gymryd rhan mewn ‘sgwrs chwilgar’ (ar-lein/yn Storiel). Bydd y sgwrs yn archwilio [sut i fynd] i mewn ac allan o'r cabinet. Sut gallai ein harfer ymgysylltiol fod yn berthnasol i oriel gelf gyfoes genedlaethol Cymru (gwefan Celf ar y Cyd) a chasgliad Storiel? Bydd y ‘sgwrs chwilgar’ hon ynddo’i hun yn rhan o, ac yn arwain at greu gwaith ar gyfer y cabinet a thu hwnt. Bydd rhan o'n gweithgarwch ar y cyd yn cynnwys gwahanol fathau o ddogfennaeth i [casglu? Cynrychioli? Gwneud yn weledol?] ac adlewyrchu ar natur a lleoliad y gelfyddyd ymgysylltiedig - sut mae'n amlygu neu gwireddu ei hun?

Os oes gennych ddiddordeb mewn cymryd rhan cysylltwch â carregcreative@gmail.com

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For our commission, Carreg Creative (with Wanda Zyborska) are inviting creatives whose practice focuses on collaboration, process and engagement* to take part in a ‘curious conversation’ (online/in Storiel).  The conversation will explore [how to get] into and out of the cabinet. How could our engaged practice relate to the national contemporary art gallery for Wales (Celf ar y Cyd website) and Storiel’s collection?

Our starting point for our ‘curious conversation’ will be:

This ‘curious conversation’ will of itself be part of, and will lead into the creation of work for and beyond the cabinet. Part of our collective activity will involve various forms of documentation to [collect? Represent? Make visual?] and reflect on the nature and location of the engaged art – how is it manifest?

If you are interested in taking part please contact carregcreative@gmail.com

[*The ‘outside the gallery’ nature of engaged contemporary practice often results in artefacts/art works as a parallel strand of collaborative, embodied activity which encompasses conversation, performance, film, sound and installation. These are difficult to ‘contain’ or represent within a ‘cabinet’, whether the cabinet of a website (Celf ar y Cyd) or a physical cabinet (at Storiel) and even within the ‘cabinet’ of the art world as a whole.]

 

Becoming Lichen - Simon Whitehead

We are the evaluators for Simon’s ‘Locator 32’ Arts Council Wales funded project, Becoming Lichen.

Simon is exploring ‘How might we learn of bodily/ interspecies collaboration and creative community from these mysterious and ancient beings? Attempting to notice and learn from these organisms and the places in which they thrive, to move as lichen is to combine our differences, to be together in ways that we couldn’t if alone, to make something complex, unusual, sustaining perhaps?’

Our evaluation process will be a series of noticings through the whole ecology of the project.

 

Trawslun y Foryd: Elinor Gwynn

Wales Real Food and Farming Conference (WRFFC) 20-22 November 2024

Our project Wrth Wraidd - At Root - will be an experiment in introducing an arts strand to this annual conference to support WRFFC’s agendas of sustainability and climate justice in Wales’ food systems.

Rather than attending with our own agenda, our creative team (Siân Barlow, Ffion Jones, Elinor Gwynn, Lindsey Colbourne and Lisa Hudson, together with Iain Biggs (evaluator)) will be there to listen and engage in creative conversations, and see where they lead. We will make spaces and create interventions at the conference where people can reflect, question, imagine and test ideas creatively - opening minds and hearts to alternative ways of addressing the challenges faced in food and farming.

We will be exploring following questions together at the 2024 conference:

  • In what ways might creative practitioners work with those directly involved in food and farming in Wales?

  • (How) are the insights, skills and experiences of creative practitioners relevant to the work of creating resilient and sustainable food systems, in local communities and throughout Wales?

  • How can we develop trusting, working and enduring relationships that bridge across sectors - with joy and care?

 

OTHER Examples of our work

Project/event/exhibition coordination, curation

Gwahoddiadau Utopias Bach, 2023

Merched Chwarel: Canu Chwarel - Singing Slate, 2019

Wal y Ferch, 2019

Ysgol Arbrofol Dod At Ein Coed, 2023

Research and evaluation

  • Oriel Davies Open Space Project Evaluation (2018)

  • Utopias Bach (2020 - ongoing)

  • Cysylltu (2023-4)

Partnership working and collaboration agreements

Commissioning engaged events and programmes

Gwyl Afon Ogwen, 2015

Facilitation

  • Culture, Action Llandudno

  • Utopias Bach

  • Carriage Works, Dinbych

  • Hwb Croesor

Learning/Training

Crone Cast 2021

Community Engagement

Documentation

Mentoring and support

If you would like to have an initial chat, please get in touch with us on carregcreative@gmail.com