PROFORMA

💫Work with us 📝

Drawing on our experiences at PROFORMA (since 2018!) we are now offering arts consultancy and development as part of our services.

This includes:
* Residencies
* Funding
* Project Management
* Curation
* Mentorship
* Community Building
* Professional Development

We are offering free 20mins, no obligation, remote introductory meetings on the First Thursday of each month where we can discuss ways of potentially working together.

First Thursdays:
*7th May*
- [ ] 10am
- [ ] 12pm
- [ ] 2pm

*4th June*
- [ ] 10am
- [ ] 12pm
- [ ] 2pm

*2nd July*
- [ ] 10am
- [ ] 12pm
- [ ] 2pm

Get in touch [email protected] DM, or follow link in bio for further information and to book your free session

🧭COMPASS: Manchester 🧭

Sharing artist reflections from our residency in Manchester at Rogue Studios.

I bookended my residency with two interventions – the releasing of bullrush seed into the last vestige of the Stockton Branch Canal and floating a raft on Gorton Reservoir. Marking my twice daily walks from the start of the canal to the reservoir with gifts offered from Norfolk.  Gorton comes from the word Gore meaning – marsh. So, marsh to marsh. 
 
The buried Stockport Branch Canal, now a path, runs directly behind Rogue Artists’ Studios. Surfacing regularly, hiding layers of industrial past behind todays industrial present. The granite setts of the towpath are likely from Scotland – who cut them? who laid them? who walked them? You can sense the tramp of the horses under Packhorse Bridge and still see weary people travelling to and from work, now as then. The smell of water hidden in the viaduct mingles with the acrid factory and diesel smells of today. Research throws up images of Rogue when it was a School in 1960 and the vast mills in 1840’s. The walk is a deep seam of social history and a window into the now.
 
Jane Scobie

Artwork: Releasing bulrush seeds ©️ Jane Scobie

🧭COMPASS: Manchester 🧭

Sharing artist reflections from our first week in Manchester at Rogue Studios.

‘The school hall is an expansive space that once activated bare-feet, plimsolls, apparatus, hoops and balls. There are new games available here, rules of art and exhibition. But when you cast your eyes downward, this is not a neutral space; a used-disused school. The marks on the floor tell us something. My ribbon wants to play trying to join in with the slightly erased and faded marks of games played before. It is glossier - like a new pupil on their first day of school, wearing shiny shoes to reveal their newness. I can almost hear the children- although it is quiet - I think of maypole dancing and embedded pedagogies. We materially sing for a moment, like morning has broken during an assembly.’
Kimberley Foster

Image: ©️Kimberley Foster






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