carreg creative

PARTNERIAETH RHWNG // a partnership between - Lindsey Colbourne & Lisa Hudson

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 that designs, delivers and supports 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. 

Mae ein tîm o Gysylltiedigion yn cynnwys: Our team of Associates includes: Wanda Zyborska, Siân Barlow, Ellen Davies, Iain Biggs, Ffion Jones and Elinor Gwynn.

Contact

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

Dan ni wedi ein lleoli yn Eryri, Gogledd Cymru. We are based in Eryri, North Wales. Dan ni’n gweithio yn ddwyieithog - We work bilingually Cymraeg - English.

Sut dan ni’n gweithio // how we work

  • 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

  • Llif // 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

  • Creadigrwydd // 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.

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

ein gwasanaethau // our services

We offer both one off advice/sounding board or longer term support, project management, design and delivery including:

  • 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

  • Facilitating partnership/collaboration agreements

  • Community engagement

  • Designing processes

  • Longer term mentoring/coaching

  • Learning and training

  • Research and evaluation

  • Project coordination

  • Documentation

  • Curation

  • Mapping

  • Facilitation

  • Accessiblity and inclusion for inperson and online spaces

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

Llif/Flow, 2017

cyfraddau // 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, going up to £600/day for high conflict situations.



 

Prosiectau Cyfredol/Diweddar Carreg Creative Current/recent Projects

Recent work has included:

  • Comisiwn Storiel/Oriel Gyfoes Genedlaethol Cymru: Storiel/National Contemporary Art Galley for Wales Commission. For our commission, Carreg Creative (with Wanda Zyborska) invited creatives whose practice focuses on collaboration, process and engagement to take part in a ‘curious conversation’ (online/in Storiel).  Through a series of conversations over 6 months, we explored [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?

  • Working with the Wales Real Food and Farming Conference experimenting with how to introduce 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)) went to the conference to listen and engage in creative conversations, and see where they led. We made spaces and created interventions for the 300 conference attendees to reflect, question, imagine and test ideas creatively - opening minds and hearts to alternative ways of addressing the challenges faced in food and farming, and exploring how creatives can support/work with food and farming in Wales. (Wrth Wraidd - At Root, 2024; Dewch at Fwrdd y Gegin - Come to the Kitchen Table, 2025)

  • We were 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.

  • Cynefin Creadigol, Capel Curig. We are working with young people to explore, map and document their Cynefin through a series of 4 workshops.

 

Llinellau Llif - Plas Bodfa 2020

Our own practice:

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

  • Design and facilitation of engaged process

  • Collaborative enquiry

  • Art production

  • Creative research

Befoe Carreg Creative was established in 2023, Lindsey and Lisa had been working together to design, deliver and support socially and environmentally engaged creative practice for 10 years. These projects include:

Gwahoddiadau Utopias Bach, 2023

Merched Chwarel: Canu Chwarel - Singing Slate, 2019

Wal y Ferch, 2019

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

Facilitation

  • Culture, Action Llandudno

  • Utopias Bach

  • Carriage Works, Dinbych

  • Hwb Croesor

  • Gofod Glas

Learning/Training

Community Engagement

Ysgol Arbrofol Dod At Ein Coed, 2023

Documentation

Mentoring and support

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

Gwyl Afon Ogwen, 2015