Leap Then Look create art works, participatory projects, workshops and events for people of all ages and abilities. Our focus is on working together, inspiring playfulness, inquisitiveness and experimentation. We use exciting and unconventional approaches, including object making, performance, installation, film, and photography, enabling our participants to engage in multiple processes, creating their own work. We believe that contemporary art practice should and can be made available and accessible to everyone and that we can all benefit from engaging with new ways of looking, making and thinking.
Leap Then Look was established in Spring 2019 by artists Lucy Cran and Bill Leslie. Since then we have run participatory projects at institutions including; Tate, Towner Eastbourne, Royal Academy, National Gallery, Henry Moore Foundation, Turner Contemporary, Compton Verney, Young V&A, Orleans House, Watts Gallery, Photo Fringe, Brighton Festival, ACCA, John Hansard Gallery, Phoenix Art Space, Goldsmiths CCA, Brighton CCA, Black Mountain College Museum and Art Center, Glyndebourne, British Library, Folkstone Triennial, Now Play This, Somerset House, and London Festival of Architecture; universities including Bath Spa, Cambridge, Kingston, Brighton, Harvard Education, UCL Institute of Education, Westminster, Manchester, Nottingham and Goethemberg; and schools, Thomas Tallis, West Rise Juniors, Parliament Hill School, Thomas A Beckett, Carden Primary, Ratton School, Priory School, Guildford High School, City of London Freemens School, Brighton College, St Catherine’s College, Eltham Hill School, Downs View Link College, Greenside School, Lady Zia Werner School, Gildredge House School, Hazel Court, Hangleton Primary.
Chair – Alice Walton – Convener of Schools and Teachers, Tate
Jon Nicholls, Director of Arts & Creativity, Thomas Tallis School and co-creator of photopedagogy.com
DJ – Artistic director Corali Dance Company
Claire Wean – Director Photo Fringe, Corridor Project and Independent producer.
Alice Walton, Convenor Schools and Teachers Programme, Tate Modern & Tate Britain
Dr Sara Bragg, Senior Teaching Fellow, Institute of Education
Jo Addison, Course Leader BA Fine Art, Kingston School of Art.
Milly Smith, Workshop participant
Image: Alun Callender 2020