Open For Art 2024 - Impact of art: Artist discussion

Join us at Phantom Brewery for a Panel discussion led by Eleni Doulgeraki, Art historian and Curator from Insistrum Art community. Eleni will thread together ideas on socially engaged and sustainable art practices, through panel discussion with artists and insights from their knowledge of a wider arts context. After a relaxed discussion they'll be time to socialise, have a drink and look at work from the panel.

The panel

Eleni, a dedicated Art Historian, with a background in engagement curation and external communication, she has navigated the art scene both in Greece and the UK.Recognizing challenges faced by historians, curators, and artists, she founded Insistrum, in late 2022 to foster connections among art professionals.The vision of Insistrum is to provide a safe platform actively connecting, empowering, and supporting creatives, fostering global connections among artists, collectors, and art enthusiasts.

Cheri Clayton is an artist and workshop facilitator, and delivers Jelly’s Young Creatives Project. They explore curatorial projects and community building through art. They aim to create work that is de-colonial, understanding radical love as the driving force of the work they create. Cheri is currently artist in residence at the University of Reading encampments, whose campaigning has led to the university divesting from Barclays Bank.

Julie is a visual artist, working with mixed media and works with Jelly as a workshop facilitator. She is predominately a 3D artist, drawn to creating figurative and illustrated pieces. The images she creates draws on gender inequality and unheard voices. She has mostly recently been working on creating sculptural protest art pieces related to climate change and over farming. Creating art work for a movement that can impact society to make a positive change is a real privilege.

Laura de Moxom is a Socially Engaged Artist and empathy-led Cultural Manager, she works with Jelly as General Manager as well as an Associate Artist, workshop facilitator. Laura has more than 10 year’s experience in delivering multi-artform learning and participatory experiences in the cultural sector, spanning across libraries, museums, galleries, art studios, festivals, schools and unexpected places. She is particularly excited by projects that are co-created with communities. In her own practice explores using mixed media and alternative photographic processes to create alternative archives. Conscious of the importance of sustainability she is currently exploring how to reduce the impact of her practice, as well as how creativity can be used in activism, especially as an introvert.

Suzanne Stallard is an artist, activist, and co-director of Jelly. She works collaboratively with Laura De Moxom, as part of Bold and Tender Collective, making site specific work with the community.

Since 2019, she has been working with Andrew Darnton, as a creative activist including experimenting with performances as protests, both for Extinction Rebellion, Ocean Rebellion and David Graeber Institute. In November 2021 on a road trip to COP 26 sharing a green van, making art in Skye and the Highlands, then scoring a huge media success in Glasgow (with the dead mermaids, oilheads, and fishheads) we developed an urge to gather around ourselves art which can tell the truth about the emergency, and anticipate what lies beyond it. A rapid radical transformation of what the everyday world can think of, and think possible, is required. paff is the means to pursue this enquiry.