Grizedale Arts is aiming to buy The Farmer’s Arms, a 600-year-old pub in the Lake District National Park, and transform it into a new kind of rural arts centre. Louisa Buck tells the story.
Over the past two decades Grizedale Arts in the Lake District has established a reputation as a community arts organisation with a difference. Embedded in the heart of Cumbria but with a long global reach, Grizedale generates cultural activity of all kinds at local, national and international levels—with an ethos summed up by its director Adam Sutherland as “all about art being useful”. There have been long-term collaborative learning exchanges with Korea, the US, Spain, Norway and Italy and this usefulness can also mean Jeremy Deller donating a customised tea urn to a village hall, Pablo Bronstein creating a chicken coop or the designing of an incense garden with the residents of the rural village of Kiwanosato in South Japan.
Working with a changing cast of volunteers, artist associates and local expertise from both home and worldwide, Grizedale has restored the grounds and buildings of Lawson Park, a formerly derelict Cumbrian hillside farm into productive and innovative multiple use... Keep reading on The Art Newspaper
Over the past two decades Grizedale Arts in the Lake District has established a reputation as a community arts organisation with a difference. Embedded in the heart of Cumbria but with a long global reach, Grizedale generates cultural activity of all kinds at local, national and international levels—with an ethos summed up by its director Adam Sutherland as “all about art being useful”. There have been long-term collaborative learning exchanges with Korea, the US, Spain, Norway and Italy and this usefulness can also mean Jeremy Deller donating a customised tea urn to a village hall, Pablo Bronstein creating a chicken coop or the designing of an incense garden with the residents of the rural village of Kiwanosato in South Japan.
Working with a changing cast of volunteers, artist associates and local expertise from both home and worldwide, Grizedale has restored the grounds and buildings of Lawson Park, a formerly derelict Cumbrian hillside farm into productive and innovative multiple use... Keep reading on The Art Newspaper