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

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.]

 

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