Conversations in Creativity

Description

Conversations in Creativity is Creative Lancashire’s series of talks and insightful interviews, where creatives from across disciplines explore how inspiration, often from around the world, informs creative process.
This special edition of Conversations in Creativity is presented in partnership with the National Festival of Making 2025

Radical Pairings
In 2025, the National Festival of Making is proud
to launch a new publication, Radical Pairings. The publication features an essay, Artists and Factories Make Radical Pairings, by art critic Elizabeth Fullerton, discussing artists’ practices and the unique nature of working as an artist within an industrial setting.
In her writing, Fullerton introduces work created in response to, and alongside workforce communities. Responding to the publication release, guest curator and featured artist Liz Wilson presents a retrospective show of the work of the five contributing women artists. The exhibition is presented in Blackburn’s most recently completed building, which forms
part of the town’s £50m culture and leisure quarter redevelopment.
During this session, Fullerton will introduce the publication and her essay followed by a panel conversation which she will chair including exhibition curator and artist Liz Wilson, along with publication contributor artists Hannah Leighton-Boyce, Jacqueline Donachie and Nicola Ellis.

Period	4 Jul 2025
Event title	Industry talks and Tours programme, National Festival of Making: Industry and place-based practices and how artists can create work within industrial and manufacturing settings which meaningfully responds to place and community identity. — The legacy of artists working in industrial contexts, recognising their contributions through the lens of gender, visibility, and arts practice.
Event type	Seminar
Location	Blackburn, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	National