This week Rachel Gadsden made the Huffington Post as number 7 of the 21 must see artworks in the Cultural Olympiad this summer – how great is that! I caught up with her yesterday as she was busily applying the final touches to a particular piece for the opening of Unlimited Global Alchemy next week [...]
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Author Archives: sarah.pickthall
Scene Setting
With the Diamond Jubilee pretty much wrapped up and the Push Me team away from the editing suite with our first films now completed in subtitled and audio described versions, it’s been interesting to dip into the media coverage of the Queen’s four day celebrations with some of this accessible thinking on our minds. Much [...]
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Secret Gardening
A few weeks back we were able to meet with Artistic Director of Graeae Theatre Company, Jenny Sealey with our Push Me team and film her in the gorgeous grounds at the Geffrye Museum in East London where she spoke to us about her Unlimited Commission, The Garden.
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Laurence Clark’s shorts
Last weekend standup comedian Laurence Clark was spotted in his shorts hanging around Tate Modern. When questioned about it, he was loathe to disclose any detail, so we’ll just have to wait. (We’re Push Me, but not that pushy!)
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Compelling Connection
As we wait to pop our first few Push Me for 90 second films into The Space, we’ve been catching up with some of our artists like Rachel Gadsden from our earlier film shoots as they work to their timetable of summer events leading up to the Southbank showcase in early September. When we first [...]
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Making the Spectacle!
It feels a lifetime ago since our first Push Me shoot with Sue Austin in Portland, Dorset – on a chilly sunny April day when we first took a closer look at her Unlimited commission, Creating the Spectacle! At that time, we discovered that the exclamation mark was not just a flourish or a typo [...]
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Pushing the suspense
Joining dancer choreographer Caroline Bowditch for a day’s Push Me filming with her team in 3 Mills in Bromley by Bow, I’m struck by the enormity of her task and the steps she is taking as a choreographer in this vast expanse.
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Adventures in The Space
As Jonzi D from Breaking Convention rightly put it at the breakfast launch this morning, The Space is ‘a good way to not pay for some brilliant art.’ Being a ‘curator’ with Push Me alongside Jo Verrent with Watershed is a fine thing – bar the high speed plate of croissants that made alien contact [...]
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