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Chike Felix Uzoka : Shaping Futures Through Art at Artcore, DerbyBy: Zahir Shaikh Chike Felix Uzoka became part of the Artcore studios in Derby an year ago, and from the outset his presence brought a quiet but unmistakable energy. His work ethic and dedication soon stood out, but more significantly, his...

In 1995, Zahir Shaikh, just out of art school in Vadodara, India, got together with a few like-minded friends, and decided to do the unthinkable. They established Artcore, a modest little Art Gallery, on the mezzanine floor of one of the city’s first shopping malls. It was a space by...

Listening, Blind embossing, ordering, measuring, tearing, pressing, weaving, folding, cropping, stitching, drilling, learning, …………..talking, thinking……and more thinking., what means something……………..More,  blind embossing, ordering, tearing, pressing, weaving, folding, cropping, stitching drilling…………..more thinking, learning, trialling, discarding, keeping…….talking……more thinking and making needed!

Artwork from the Royal School for the Deaf Derby will be shown alongside internationally renowned deaf photographer Stephen Iliffe’s major new photography exhibition at the Artcore Gallery. It will be open from Friday 4 October to Saturday 2 November 2024 and will highlight the achievements of deaf people. In a historic first-ever exhibition about the deaf community to be...

Dear Passengers open studio clip Dear Passengers from Lange Nacht open studio Back in Derby with lots of work to do. Only 4 weeks to the exhibition opening, counting this week, install week and a week when I am going to the sound conference in London. I need to get a...

Naturally, you may wonder how much alcohol you have to drink to get to that point. The answer depends on your sex, age, body mass, metabolism, the type of alcohol, and more. More research needs to be done on people, but the effects of long-term heavy alcohol use are already...

Exciting Update! After reviewing applications from 70 artists across the UK, we’re pleased to introduce the finalists for “The Silence of Growing Things” residency in Bengaluru, India, hosted by Artcore. Our finalists are Freya Gabie and Arjuna Keshvani-Ham. Freya Gabie, a sculpture graduate from Chelsea College of Art and the Royal...

I was able to visit the Royal Crown Derby Museum where we were given the tour of the collection by the museums curator Elizabeth Woledge, thanks to fellow resident Hayley Blackwell who organised it. Stand out pieces for me were the eggshell cup and saucer – so delicate literally felt...

Monoprint and underglaze transfer workshop with Kathryn Borg. Kathryn very kindly showed me some new decorating techniques using coloured slips and underglazes. First we created an underglaze transfer using paper (it needs to be thin paper like newspaper/rice paper). We used black underglaze in a squeezy applicator bottle, sketched an...

I’ve been settling into the studio and getting acquainted with the spaces at Artcore. Its certainly daunting starting a new project knowing the time constraints of the residency and the space we need to fill for the exhibition. Its such a wonderful space to showcase our work that I want...

My proposal for this residency is to deep drive into the processes and people behind the design and manufacture of the prestigious and historical company Royal Crown Derby, which is based in the heart of the city. It is a family run business employing people from the Derby community. I...

The first week of the residency involved visiting Derby to meet the Artcore Team and being shown the two sites they have, I had never been to Artcore before, so it was good to see the gallery at Albert Street and then the space at Charnwood street where we will...