Arts Collaboration - Richard Watkins exploring human dynamics - collaboration, meaning making, inner life, social processes, connection

Creative Art Collaboration
Since 2011 I've had an interest in artists working together on shared projects - these projects have inspired and informed my professional work on collaboration in organisations at Let's Go
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The Mixup
The Mixup is 41 artists from six cities getting all mixed up in each others' creative process. There are 5-10 artists in each of: Beirut, Cape Town, Istanbul, LA, London and Medellín. Each artist starts a piece of artwork, a second artist works on it, and a third artist finishes it. After local shows in each city, the global tour started at Camberwell Arts Festival, then Istanbul's Space Debris, Cape Town, and LA. #GlobalMixup
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The Airmail Project
The Airmail Project was a global art experiment: 16 artists from 16 countries, collaborating by post. Each artwork was started, worked on and completed by a different artist, so every artist helps create three final pieces. I started the project in 2014 with Lara Salmon - our first show was in LA in October 2014, before heading to Beirut in January 2015, London in June 2015 for the Camberwell Arts Festival, and Istanbul for July/August 2015. The work travelled 260,000 miles.
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"Way beyond home"
Andile Dyalvane from South Africa > Nini Sum from China > Rosie Cooper from New Zealand
United Verses / 译站
I am proud to have been part of initiating this Shanghai based cross-cultural poetry exchange in 2011. Running for five years, UV brought together Chinese-language and English-language poets to translate and perform each other's work. Check out www.unitedverses.com or buy the anthology.
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Being Bodies
A creative exploration of our physicality - each month of 2015 a diverse set of creatives will reflect on a different part of the body - project initiated with Sarah Lowe.
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Take It & Run
A 40-person cross-genre creative collaboration in response to the Pen Paper Pause sketches. I invited people with a creative appetite to take one of my sketches, and run with it, using their own individual style and whatever medium they wanted. We had a project showcase in January 2011 for all the wonderful work – from ilustration to upholstery, from sculpture to song - which you can now enjoy online.
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Food & Ideas
A series of supper clubs taking on the full potential of supper. We start with a strong theme. Becky Claydon and Paul Turner build great menus. Rosie Cooper decorates a fantastic location. And I garnish the evening with words to take us deeper into our idea.
So far: Thanks, From the Darkness, The Ground

Rich Watkins

Creative Art Collaboration

Since 2011 I've had an interest in artists working together on shared projects - these projects have inspired and informed my professional work on collaboration in organisations at Let's Go

The Mixup

The Airmail Project

"Way beyond home"

United Verses / 译站

I am proud to have been part of initiating this Shanghai based cross-cultural poetry exchange in 2011. Running for five years, UV brought together Chinese-language and English-language poets to translate and perform each other's work. Check out www.unitedverses.com or buy the anthology.

Being Bodies

A creative exploration of our physicality - each month of 2015 a diverse set of creatives will reflect on a different part of the body - project initiated with Sarah Lowe.See the project here

Take It & Run

Food & Ideas

A creative exploration of our physicality - each month of 2015 a diverse set of creatives will reflect on a different part of the body - project initiated with Sarah Lowe.
See the project here