Our Commissions
Art and Agency project
Art and Agency is our new eco-anxiety and creativity project with Arts and Humanities Research Council, Positive Light Projects and University of Exeter.
Working with 10 organisers and creatives who may be considering climate change and loss of biodiversity. This collaborative research project aims to better understand how eco anxiety is affecting adults, and how creative skills and activities can help us to respond to it and take action in our communities.
Utopia Project
In collaboration with the University of Plymouth, Art and Energy successfully applied to the Arts and Humanities Research Council to work with 6 creative organisations in Plymouth to explore how visions of Utopia may be able to help us to face the energy crisis and the climate emergency.
British Art Show 9
Art and Energy’s Jenny worked in partnership with Plymouth Scrapstore and became Artist in Residence throughout the BAS9 exhibition in 2022.
Connect Plymouth
Art and Energy working with Connect Plymouth to deliver some engagement work in the run up to the introduction of 400 community-hire electric Beryl bikes across the city.
Clean Streets project
In 2022 Plymouth City Council were part of an Innovate UK project (Clean Streets) that aimed to deploy hubs of pop-up charge-points while minimising street clutter. As part of this they were keen to trial designs at sites to draw positive attention to the site, hide the feeder pillars and encourage engagement on the issues related to climate change.
Art and Energy were commissioned to work with members of the Plymouth community to come up with fun and engaging sticker designs to cover electric vehicle feeder pillar boxes.
We ran a Creative Energy Day on 28th March 2022. Participants went for an energy walk around West Hoe, Plymouth and viewed the new Urban Electric charge points and associated street furniture. We learnt about electric vehicles and got creative making energy collages to generate ideas of energy imagery and narratives.
We worked with creative people to design and install large sticker artworks on 10 feeder pillars.
