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From Waste to Resource Conference – Welcome
Welcome to From Waste to Resource, a one-day conference that explores the reimagining of construction spoil clay.
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From Waste to Resource Conference – Research Overview
Keynote Speaker: Claire Baily Claire is an artist, researcher and educator whose work explores the intersections of art, sustainability and material innovation. Her research…
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From Waste to Resource Conference – Exploring our Material Future
Keynote Speaker: Caroline Till Caroline Till is co-founder of FranklinTill, a design futures consultancy activating colour and material innovation for positive social & environmental…
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From Waste to Resource Conference – Beneath Our Feet: Exploring the Value of Soil
Guest Speaker: John Quinton John Quinton is Professor of Soil Science at Lancaster University. His research focuses on understanding soil processes and their interactions…
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From Waste to Resource Conference – Networks of Re-use Panel
This panel explores how local organisations, artists, designers and activists are building new relationships between communities, materials and systems through the re-use of waste…
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From Waste to Resource Conference – Circularity in Practice: Design
Guest Speaker: Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad’s design projects range from the public realm to spaces, games, and objects. Drawing on aesthetics, linguistics, and anthropology,…
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From Waste to Resource Conference – Circularity in Practice: Architecture Panel
This panel brings together practitioners working at the forefront of spoil clay re-use within contemporary construction. They share their lived experiences of both the…
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From Waste to Resource Conference – Excavation Waste London Clay Utilisation in Concrete Applications
Guest Speaker: Apostolos Tsoumelekas Apostolos Tsoumelekas, CEng CEnv MIMMM MICT FGS, is a Materials Engineering Manager for Skanska UK and SCSjv. He has over…
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From Waste to Resource Conference – Innovation: BC Materials, Belgium
Guest Speaker: Ken de Cooman BC Materials transforms excavated earth from urban construction sites into circular, local clay building materials, such as compressed earth…
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From Waste to Resource Conference – Playscape & Closing Remarks
Playscape: an interactive rammed earth artwork Guest Speaker: Sarah Fraser Playscape uses rammed earth – a sustainable, ancient construction technique that creates strong forms…
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BCB 2023 Panel Talks – Material Re-use and Viability
Material Re-use and Viability focused on how construction waste can be used by creatives in a carbon-responsible way.
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BCB 2023 Panel Talks – The Career of an Artist
The Career of an Artist was an insightful and candid panel discussion about the realities of being a contemporary artist.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Nicola Tassie
Hear more about the work Nicola Tassie made for Award 2023.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Jasmine Simpson
Hear more about the work Jasmine Simpson made for Award 2023.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Mella Shaw
Hear more about the work Mella Shaw made for Award 2023.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Carrie Reichardt
Hear more about the work Carrie Reichardt made for Award 2023.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Elspeth Owen
Hear more about the work Elspeth Owen made for Award 2023.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Dan Kelly
Hear more about the work Dan Kelly made for Award 2023.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Rebecca Griffiths
Hear more about the work Rebecca Griffiths made for Award 2023.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Copper Sounds
Hear more about the work Copper Sounds made for Award 2023.
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BCB 2023 Artist Talks – Rebecca Appleby
Hear more about the work Rebecca Appleby made for Award 2023.
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Talent Development Programme: Week 3
This week’s programme includes artist, researcher and writer Clare Twomey, studio potter Isatu Hyde and artist and researcher Anna Francis.
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Talent Development Programme: Week 4
Leading the programme for week 4 is artist and potter Helen Beard, artist and educator Matt Smith, artist and researcher Sam Lucas and lecturer, practice-based researcher and learning designer Dena Bagi.
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Talent Development Programme: Week 2
This week starts with artist and BCB Studio & Community Programme Manager Joanne Mills, Service Manager at Stoke Recovery Service Vicky Lomas. Following that is artist and initiator Phoebe Collings–James of Mud Belly Ceramics. Lastly we hear from artist-researcher and podcaster Eva Masterman and lecturer along with practice-based researcher and learning designer Dena Bagi.
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Talent Development Programme: Week 1
This is the first talk in the BCB Talent Development programme that took place during our 2021 festival. The programme was developed in partnership with the creative business development programme Factory and led by BCB’s Artistic Programme Manager, Rhiannon Ewing-James.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Cleo Mussi
In Cleo Mussi’s work for BCB Award 2021, art meets science whilst exploring taxonomy, tribe, leaf and clay.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Mawuena Kattah
Mawuena Kattah embodies a strong sense of pattern & narrative in her ceramics, influenced by African wax print textiles & Iznik design.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Helen Beard
Helen Beard is a potter and illustrator and a people watcher at heart. She makes, draws, designs and sometimes teaches from her London studio.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Christie Brown
Christie Brown explores the relationship between archaeology and psychoanalysis, and references the mythology, narrative and symbolism associated with clay.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Alice Walton
Alice Walton works with coloured clay throughout its various states, aiming to highlight the meditative process of the material.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Jin Eui Kim
Jin Eui Kim works in-between the concepts of illusion and reality and his work attracts viewers by visual phenomena as well as physical confusions appearing on the surface.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Connor Coulston
Connor Coulston is a ceramicist whose practise is defined by the ongoing conversation between his self-deprecating sense of humour, wild imagination and the materiality of clay.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Laura Plant
Laura Plant focuses her practice as a designer on the balance between beauty and function, material and process.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Pam Su
Pam Su is an American ceramics artist based in London. Her work harnesses mood, tone, atmosphere into static forms occupying space.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Steve Dixon
Steve’s work operates at the intersection of art and craft. He combines traditions of fine craftsmanship with visual narrative to examine the social and political issues of our troubled times.
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Toni de Jesus
During BCB 2021, Creative Producer Rhiannon Ewing-James sat down with Toni de Jesus, one of the many talented artists exhibiting in the biennial. Through…
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BCB 2021 Artist Talks: Ho Lai
During BCB 2021, Creative Producer Rhiannon Ewing-James sat down with some of the many talented artists exhibiting in the biennial. Through these talks, artists…
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