Lucy Suggate Joins Us as Artist Researcher

Fabric is thrilled to announce that it is engaging artist Lucy Suggate in a year-long programme of activities as Artist Researcher.

The programme seeks to consider how an individual artists’ practice can support the learning and development of our organisations approach to community engagement and choreographic research.

The programme is focused on specific strands of Lucy’s practice;

Trade Movements, is born from Lucy’s interest in ‘Choreography for Permacrisis’. By placing seemingly unrelated, yet vitally sustaining skills, actions, trades, knowledges and experiences next to each other to create a series of dialogues, workshops, experiments, performances all departing from the notion of “How to”…….build, grow, loose, make, plant… and so on. Lucy wants to create exchanges that allows for the transference of energies between disciplines, materials and edges, to encourage change making, to nurture movement, choreographic cooperation and community.

Tender Stones is an interdisciplinary performance work created by Lucy Suggate in collaboration with the drawing practice of artist Charlie Ford. Using mark making, sculpting, placing and arranging to create a surreal production line of paper stones. Through doing and making Tender Stones we hope to expand an understanding and use of time to place vast and ungraspable through attending to the practical. Through this year long programme Lucy is interested in developing many iterations of Tender Stones as an expanding, changing field of choreographic practice, a site for souls to gather, practice together, to embark on much needed and difficult work of having and losing it all.

Fabric will create, lead and evaluate during the life of this contract.