We Will

British Art Show 9 Plymouth Creative Programme, 2022 Client: British Art Show 9 Plymouth partners Development and production WE WILL is a creative programme pairing artists with different groups in the city to make art in response to the British Art Show 9. Plymouth-based artist William Luz worked with Barnardo’s Multicultural Stay and Play Group which brings families and pre-school children who have English as an additional language together once a week to play and access support to make a large scale paper work inspired by important everyday items. Sound artist and musician Jodie Saunders worked with members of OUTYouth Plymouth to explore sound, recording and the theme of ‘imagining new futures’ to create a new sound work in response to Oliver Beer’s work. Families from the Devon Ukrainian Association worked with Faye, Caroline Deeds and Simon Paulter to use mobile phones to create animations and short films. They’ve been inspired by Andy Holden’s installation at The Box which features hundreds of ceramic cats that were left to him by his grandmother. Printmaker Lorna Rose worked with service users from Devon and Cornwall Refugees Support (DCRS), which provides advocacy, advice, support and a welcoming communal space for asylum seekers in the region. Members of its walking group and art group have joined Lorna on a series of walks to the city’s BAS9 venues, using street printing and collage to explore the environment around them and capture the everyday. We also invited performer, poet and facilitator Charice Bhardwaj to deliver a digital storytelling workshop for art students and local people who are acting as Ambassadors for British Art Show 9. The group became ‘roving reporters’, creating short videos and social media reports about the exhibition. We’ll be sharing their reports in our stories, but look out for the hashtag #bas9rovingreporters. Production: Sophie Mellor and Phil Rushworth We Will has been commissioned for the British Art Show 9, a Hayward Touring exhibition delivered in partnership with The Box, KARST, The Arts Institute at the University of Plymouth and MIRROR at Arts University Plymouth. Image: Service users of the Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support during a workshop with Lorna Rose. Photo by Dom Moore Image description: Two men are standing by a lampost on the street, making a rubbing of the 3D plaque with paper and a pastel.