This year’s theme at Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery is Environmental and includes a range of art forms from invited and selected artists who have been encouraged to use recycled and or sustainable materials. Supported by Arts Council, the exhibition marks an exciting collaboration with guest Curator Prof. Michael Archer, former Head of Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London.

This important exhibition shows different perspectives on mental health through the eyes of various artists working in a range of media and is supported by Doncaster City Council

NATURA - a group exhibition celebrating a Greener Future curated by ART from Heart Founders, Curator Judit Prieto and Events Manager Beatriz Perez. This environmental show features: Anabel Martin, G King, J Suyi, Louise Brook, Maureen Grayson, Rachael Ashley, Wai Hing Lau and Pamela Schilderman; eight multimedia artists each examining nature the essence of life though a different lens.

EcologyNOW challenges the position of humans at the top of the classic evolution chain.

 Artist Pamela Schilderman has created sculptures which pair human forensic identifiers with animal species and animal drawings which depict Utopian scenes across Brazil; to ask visitors to consider whether or not humans are the most important species on earth today.

Have your say by placing your vote when visiting the exhibition at the Lapworth Museum of Geology.

EcologyNOW is a Sci/Art collaboration between the University of Birmingham, the Lapworth Museum of Geology and the artist Pamela Schilderman.

Pamela Schilderman is a Dutch-Brazilian artist born in Rotterdam in 1982. She lived in Rwanda before moving to the UK at the age of five. Since graduating from Goldsmiths University, London in 2004 she has exhibited nationally and done residencies in France, Holland, Wales and Finland. Pamela’s interdisciplinary practice is influenced by science and challenges preconceptions through definition and choice of media.

Visitors to the town centre can look forward to a host of exciting spectacles on Saturday and Sunday, 29 and 30 July, including the return by popular demand of eco-friendly sea giant Eko, who will be greeting the crowds, and the chance to see a life-sized 50ft inflatable sperm whale where an ‘aquabatic’ diver, a shipwrecked pirate and a mermaid will have stories to tell.

There will also be a parade, culminating in an en masse dance in Time Square where everyone can join in, and an aerial performance by Tuckshop Dance Theatre in Palmyra Square.

Meanwhile, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery will be tying into the environmental themes with the launch of ‘Wake Me Up Before You Dodo’ with new art by Warrington’s ‘Mini David Attenborough’, Britain’s Got Talent finalist Aneeshwar Kunchala, and sculptor Val Hunt.

This weekend of events has been made possible thanks to funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) and help from our partners at Warrington Borough Council, Warrington Market and the Warrington Business Improvement District (BID).

29 July – Street Games

29 July – Many Hands parade

29 July Wake Me Up Before You Dodo exhibition continues till 5 November

29 July EcologyNOW exhibition continues till 24 September

29 and 30 July – Out of the Deep Blue

30 July – The Whale: Plastic Ocean at Palmyra Square

30 July – Sunflowers performance at Palmyra Square

30 July – Be Kind to Our Planet family workshops at the Parr Hall

‘EcologyNOW’ is a hybrid museum intervention exploring links between human Forensics and animal species to challenge the position of humans at the top of the classic evolution chain. Sculptures and drawings by artist Pamela Schilderman highlight the need for conservation in the face of extinction. Deliberately provocative, this project is the result of a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, the Lapworth and the artist.

Peter Knott, Midlands Area Director, Arts Council England said: “We’re really pleased to be supporting this project through National Lottery funding, and it will be great to see Pamela’s work bringing history, science and art together.”

Supported by: Arts Council England through the National Lottery, A-N Space, Time, Money Artist Bursary, CuratorSpace #15 Artist Bursary, The Eaton Fund, MagGenome

The exhibition explores climate change caused by man’s negative impact on the planet. It features northwest based and international contemporary artists whose work explores and promotes climate action.

Daniel Steegman Mangrané’s work Le Pensée Feral explores how the once domesticated dogs of Rio de Janeiro now live in a feral state in the world’s largest urban forest, located in the Tijuca National Park to survive the impact man has had on the place they once lived. The work raises questions about subjectivity and our attitude towards our environment, reinforcing that nature is not without perception or feeling.

Le Pensée Feral, by Daniel Steegman Mangrané was acquired with the support of the Stumato Foundation and Art Fund, with assistance of Liverpool Biennial and is the starting point to this exhibition which features artworks by Mishka Henner, Brigitte Jurack, Hilary Jack, Shezad Dawood, McCoy Wynne, Mark Mcleish, Pamela Schilderman, Emmie Shaw-Peake, Bob Bicknell-Knight and Sthephen Walton that explores man’s negative impact on the planet.

EcologyNOW is a Sci/Art collaboration between the University of Birmingham, the Lapworth Museum of Geology and the artist Pamela Schilderman. It will explore links between human Forensics and animal species to challenge the position of humans at the top of the classic evolution chain. In 2023, it will be exhibited at Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, Warrington Museum & Art Gallery and Lapworth Museum of Geology.

Peter Knott, Midlands Area Director, Arts Council England said: “We’re really pleased to be supporting this project through National Lottery funding, and it will be great to see Pamela’s work bringing history, science and art together.

I am so happy and excited to have received the CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #15 for my project ‘EcologyNOW. ‘ I will be working with the Lapworth Museum and University of Birmingham scientists to create a mixed-media museum intervention around animal conservation.

This AN Artist Bursary ‘Time Space Money’, will allow me to work closely with Lapworth staff responding innovatively to the museum’s fossil collections. It will enable me to explore the environmental potential within my work through collaboration and learning new techniques.

Installation View of Fool’s Gold at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Photograph by Jamie Gray

New Art West Midlands Q&A with artist Pamela Schilderman.

Fool’s Gold is a new exhibition by artists Hayley Harrison and Pamela Schilderman which opened recently at Rugby Museum and Art Gallery. Open until 14 March, the exhibition explores issues of ecology and natural resources. We spoke to Pamela to find out more.

This extraordinary exhibition seeks to challenge society’s consumerism and its impact on the environment. Through the transformation of waste and natural resources artists Pamela Schilderman and Hayley Harrison will seek to engage conversations around the climate crisis and our use of materials.

Casket is a scientifically radical Self-Portrait that speaks of identity and that challenges the traditional Self-Portrait by using forensic identifiers: my thumbprint, hair, teeth, retina and DNA, in order to present an alternative visual perspective of the Self through the lens of criminological science.

Portraits from The National Portrait Gallery, The Lowry and the Rugby Collection.

This Spring Rugby's renowned collection of 20th century and contemporary British art is being exhibited and curated around the theme of portraits. Works included by Lucien Freud, Edward Bawden, Eduardo Paolozzi and Lowry.

Casket is a new scientifically radical Self-Portrait that speaks of identity and that challenges the traditional Self-Portrait by using forensic identifiers: my thumbprint, hair, teeth, retina and DNA, in order to present an alternative visual perspective of the self through the lens of criminological science.