In a profession that often separates artist from teacher, or studio from school, Dialogue in the Making offers an alternative perspective: that making and teaching, memory and imagination can inform one another. Bringing together the practices of ten art teachers and the technicians integral to the school community, the exhibition invites reflection on the possibilities of creative dialogue.
What happens to creative practice when it unfolds in the margins of daily life - between lessons, in sketchbooks, in moments carved out from the pressures of teaching life?
From the spiritual gatherings documented by Jannell Adufo, to Louisa Barry’s photographs of places shaped by time, to fictional landscapes constructed in the sculptural worlds of Lily Pym. For Kerry Gibson, scale slips into abstraction through layered paper studies, while Tamsin Wildy’s fragile structures reveal the unpredictable behaviours of plaster, found objects and light. Some return to unfinished ideas, such as Luke Roszkowski’s early moving-image work, whilst others shape their practice around the demands of care, labour and the pressures of time.
This show continues the momentum of the acclaimed exhibition Dianne Minnicucci: Belonging and Beyond at Autograph, exploring how vulnerability, identity and creative practice intersect in the work of an artist-teacher at Thomas Tallis School. Here, Dialogue in the Making embeds that idea across the whole Art Department, providing space and freedom to see how creative practices can evolve and be challenged beyond the classroom.
