As part of our commitment to make artistic research a public process, we also support a growing archive of research that documents and responds to our programme and wider work. You can browse our online archive by category or by using the search box below.
This is a published text from the Imagining Otherwise exhibition handout describing artworks, offering further context to a new form of experimental exhibition-making for Primary. The group show, which took place in the summer of 2024, initially comprised three existing works by artists Ashley Holmes, Jasleen Kaur, and Jala Wahid before it was transformed.
Read MoreOn 27 July 2024, a trio of events animated Primary’s Garden and Gallery 2. Imagining Otherwise Live was a collaborative series of events crafted by the artists Ashley Holmes, Jasleen Kaur and Jala Wahid, who contributed to the Imagining Otherwise exhibition.
Read MoreIn Summer 2023 Primary presented The Unicorn is Killed and Brought to the Castle Cartoon, a solo exhibition by artist Sam Keogh. During the exhibition the installation was used by Keogh to stage two performances. These live interventions will saw the artist interact with the collaged elements of the work, using them as a visual script, folding and unfolding their surfaces to guide a monologue which will describe and rewrite the history of the original tapestries. Keogh’s second performance was documented by Freddy Griffiths.
Read MoreThis is an edited recording of Sustaining Resilience: Land Rights and the Politics of Conservation, a conversation delving into the relationship between conservation and land rights, highlighting different modes of relating to land and the urgency of centring reparative approaches.
Read MoreIn celebration of Maybelle Peters’s exhibition, Attention, Absorption, this panel discussion event brought together Black women and non-binary artists and animators: Jessica Ashman, Phoebe Boswell, Mothy Muyobo, and Maybelle Peters. Chaired by exhibition curator Jade Foster, the panel focuses on the crossovers between animation and the visual arts sector.
Read MoreThis visual design created by William Harvey maps themes, ideas and quotes from Round Table: A Meal and Conversation – and invites you to build on this through future conversations and events.
Read MoreThe Machines is a new interdisciplinary performance work by Publik Universal Frxnd (formerly known as Richard John Jones) based on physical research into the folk tradition of East-Lancashire clog-dancing.
Read MoreA blog by Charlotte Tupper reflecting on the Build Create Play programme on Ronald Street Playground, Summer 2021
Read MorePositive Affirmations is an evolving online space to document Carmen Argote’s research, process and processing of ideas during her residency and exhibition at Primary.
Read MoreAn unfolding programme of research by artist Maybelle Peters for When We Worked at Raleigh: Contemporary Art Commission.
Tuesday 22 June - Thursday 15 July
Read MoreAida Amoaka responds to Larry Achimapong's Divid̶e̶d̶nation, giving insight into the methods of divination and their implications.
Read MoreDean Kissick responds to Parker Ito’s PII.
Read MoreKate Watson writes up the day’s discussions at the Arts and Place Regional Conversation, an event organised by Primary and the national Arts and Place Working Group.
Read MoreLianne Mol reflects on the sixth session of the discussion group ART as/is SOCIAL, which focused on the Commons and responded to the question, “How can art and art institutions contribute to the Commons and take on practices of commoning?”
Read MoreSumona Chakravarty reflects on Art in Public Space: A Critical Reimagining, a four-day intensive lab which brought together collectives from across India to share practice and discuss the politics of arts practice in public space.
Read MoreHair Consultation took place at Primary in December 2014 as part of Richard Houguez & Rachael Young’s Intersections commission. In this blog post, Richard reflects on the event.
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