This session supports artists to clarify the motivations, ideas, and frameworks that sit beneath their practice and to understand how these are shaped, filtered, and distilled into the practices and methodologies they share with others. The focus is on articulation and alignment: how to name what underpins your work (even when it feels complex or in motion or even unclear), how that underpinning becomes practice through the choices you make, and how methodology emerges from that process rather than becoming the thing that defines you. The session is designed as a reflective, discussion-led space that helps artists move beyond being “the person who does [a particular activity]” and instead communicate the philosophy, research, ethics, and questions that their methods are in service of. From there, we’ll open a shared conversation about what this clarity can change when designing or facilitating a workshop particularly when working in research-heavy and socially engaged contexts. Who’s it for: This session is for artists across disciplines and at different stages, including:
- those who regularly facilitate and want stronger alignment between what underpins their work and what they deliver
- those considering workshops as part of their practice
- those developing research-led or socially engaged approaches and wanting clearer language for what drives them
No prior workshop experience is required. About Khadijah Khadijah Carberry is a filmmaker, creative practitioner, and academic who uncovers and reimagines the hidden narratives embedded in global supply chains. Her work challenges extractive systems that uphold colonial legacies, ecological damage, and erased histories. Through radical storytelling and sensory engagement, Khadijah empowers individuals, students and communities to rethink and transform their connection to the world around them. This event has been organised by Primary for The Kaleidoscope Network, a collaboration between Spike Island (Bristol), Eastside Projects (Birmingham), Primary (Nottingham), The NewBridge Project (Newcastle) and Bloc Projects (Sheffield). Formed in response to a need for mutual support, the network has come together as a way to share resources, increase what each partner is able to offer and create new connections between communities of artists. Membership of any of the above organisations automatically makes you part of the Kaleidoscope Network.
