arist in residence

Forest of Dean-based artist John Slater has been working with the Forest of Dean Writers Collection in a residency at the Dean Heritage Centre. Over the past year John has been experimenting with a number of temporary interventions around the museum site, both inside and out. He has been developing different ways to link work from the Writers Collection with the museum's permanent displays. At the same time John has worked with a number of local schools visiting the site, delivering imaginative workshops combining hands-on making, poetry and local history. His work has now culminated in a fantastic temporary installation in the main ground-floor gallery of the Dean Heritage Centre. In this video John talks through this latest work, and the thinking behind his project as a whole funded by Arts Council England.