Rural Arts
Contemporary Arts in Rural Development is a UK-Japanese international network of stakeholders with expertise in contemporary arts practice, rural community development and rural planning. The network aims to develop a new research agenda on the role of contemporary arts in rural development policy and theory.
The project is led by Newcastle University’s Centre for Rural Economy, along with academics at the University of Tokyo and other stakeholders in both the UK and Japan. We are funded by the UK’s Research Councils (AHRC and ESRC UK-Japan Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Connections grant). You can read about the project also on the UK Research and Innovation web pages.
What do arts practices bring to rural sociology?
Dr Fran Rowe reflects on discussions held during a panel she convened with Dr Menelaos Gkartzios at the recent European Society for Rural Sociology Congress in Trondheim, Norway
Lucy May Schofield had an exhibition in Tokyo
Project artist Lucy May Schofield completed the Upper Advanced Training at the MI-LAB Artist residency programme in Fujikawaguchiko, Japan
New European Research Council project on 'Rural Imaginations'
New research project on 'Rural Imaginations' at the University of Amsterdam led by Prof Esther Peeren explores the linkages of rural research across Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Visual Arts in Rural Communities (VARC) exhibition by artist Megan Randall
Megan Randall End of Residency Exhibition 'Traces' in rural Northumberland (1st and 2nd June 2019)
From Niigata's mountains to the sea: project team at Japan's Setouchi Triennale
Project team attended the Setouchi Triennale in the archipelago of Seto, and met with local stakeholder groups, policy makers and academics
Researchers meet with Professor Naoyuki Hara of Kagawa University
Menelaos Gkartzios and Fran Rowe met with Professor of Economics Naoyuki Hara in Takamatsu city to hear about his work in Teshima island on the impact of Setouchi art festival to the local community
Artist Lucy May Schofield to start a 5 week artist-in-residency in Japan
Project artist Lucy May Schofield will be resident artist for 6 week at MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Lab) Upper Advanced Residency in Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Perfecture, Japan
Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Collaborative Organisation welcomes research team
Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Collaborative Organisation welcomes UK-Japanese partners to discuss art as a catalyst to revitalise rural Niigata in Japan
Project leader is interviewed by Japan's public broadcaster about Satoyama art
Menelaos Gkartzios talks to NHK World, Japan's public broadcaster, about art situated in the landscape of Satoyama, while visiting the 'Tunnel of Light' at Echigo-Tsumari Art Field
'Contemporary Arts in Rural Development' team visits Tokyo's Art Front Gallery
Team members visited Art Front Gallery to learn about its socially engaged art practices through art activism and public art
Seminar on the role of arts in rural development held at the University of Tokyo
Seminar co-hosted by the Japanese Rural Planning Association at the University of Tokyo discussed how art contributes to rural development
Conversing through the arts with a small market town
Matt Baker writes about an ongoing conversation through the arts with a market town in rural Scotland
‘Contemporary Arts in Rural Development’ seminar announced in Tokyo
The programme of ‘Contemporary Arts in Rural Development’ jointly hosted with the Japanese Rural Planning Association is announced
Visiting Research Fellows at National University of Ireland, Galway
Menelaos Gkartzios and Julie Crawshaw were Visiting Research Fellows at Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway
CRE artistic research on rural communities after Brexit
Impact on Brexit on rural communities to be explored by artist Gemma Burditt with CRE's Paul Cowie
New blog on practising interdisciplinarity in the UK and Japan
Frances Rowe writes about a new cultural collaboration between Newcastle University and the University of Tokyo
‘Contemporary Arts in Rural Development’ symposium at Newcastle University
The first residential week of the UKRI research between UK and Japan took place at Newcastle University
New article on rural studies research with an artist-in-residence
Open access article on interdisciplinary explorations across rural studies and artistic research published in Sociologia Ruralis
