Chichester's Young Pallant Artists - "I feel so proud of all of us" - video Dailymotion

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Young Pallant Artists are showing their work in a special exhibition free to visit in the Print Room at Chichester’s Pallant House Gallery running until April 20.

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00:00Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Six Newspapers, and I'm really

00:06lovely to talk about a significant exhibition that's just up and running at Pallant Hills

00:10Gallery in Chichester, Young Pallant Artists. It's select screen prints running until April

00:1620th. Now, Emily, you're one of the community managers for the whole thing, and Hannah,

00:21you are one of four participating artists. And it's a group of artists who perhaps need

00:26a little bit more support to access art, to participate in art. And you were saying

00:30that through your membership of this group over a couple of years now, you have gained

00:35so much, haven't you? How's it changed you? What's this group, the Young Pallant Artists,

00:40what has it given you, would you say? Firstly, it's given me a community, and all of us are

00:48just, we get on really well, and to create art with other people is a really special

00:54experience, and you really get to know people, and it's quite a vulnerable experience too.

01:02And you kind of let a side show that you might not in everyday life. So I think the community

01:09has been just incredible, but also the opportunities that the gallery provides for us.

01:15Multiple people have had their work displayed in the gallery, and now we've curated this

01:20exhibition together. And Hannah, you said a really interesting thing just now, that

01:25participating in art allows you to cut out the noise, to stop the noise of whatever's going on

01:30in your mind, in your life. That's crucial, isn't it? To find a place where you can focus

01:35and find peace. Yeah, I think you could describe it as a digital detox type thing.

01:43All in favour of that. It is, yeah, yeah. And even, you can use technology to assist you in art, but

01:51I think people do find, because everyone is from a different background there, and

01:55they need, everyone needs that space to think for themselves. And maybe that's,

02:02that art's centred around their hobby, or difficulties they might have gone through,

02:07and that's, it's just an amazing way to express all of those feelings and let them out, but at

02:11the same time just switch them off. There's a bit of both, I would say. That sounds brilliant.

02:16There's just so much noise, isn't there, from the digital world. It's so insistent,

02:20but to be in your own mind in a safe space, finding peace through art.

02:25And tell me about the themes, what's covered in this exhibition?

02:30The themes, so it's all about human nature and how we might approach problems in different ways.

02:41So we have some kind of pieces about technology and how we've progressed as humans, but maybe

02:51that might not be a good thing. There are some things, you know, with the environment.

02:55So it's asking questions about what are we really, as humans, how are we kind of

03:05looking to the past, and what do we think about that, and how are we also looking forwards,

03:10and what does that mean for us? It sounds fantastic. And Emily,

03:15you must be a really, I don't know what the word is, must be a really gratifying, satisfying,

03:20enjoyable thing to take part in, to facilitate, and you must feel great pride in your artists.

03:28Definitely. It's been a fantastic journey. We started this project about a year ago,

03:33and I think we've all really learned from each other. It's been, everyone's working alongside

03:39each other. They've had fantastic conversations, and just sharing the collection as well,

03:44things that are normally kind of hidden away. The young people in the group have been able to

03:48really be involved in the kind of behind the scenes, and what we do at the gallery,

03:52selecting artworks, making all those decisions about essentially what the viewer sees. So it's

03:59been great. It really does sound great. And it meets every week on a Thursday, 4.30 to 6 o'clock,

04:06did you say? And you have vacancies, don't you, Emily? Who would benefit most by becoming a young

04:12talent artist, do you think? Yeah, so anyone between the ages of 18 to 30, who feels that

04:19they need a bit of extra support to join in a creative workshop. That could be for many different

04:25reasons. It could be disability, mental health, absolutely anything. Maybe someone's a bit

04:30isolated. Just come and have a chat with us, and we can tell you more, and you'd be very welcome.

04:36But just come and find you at the gallery and talk them through.

04:40You can then email us. Brilliant. Well, the exhibition, the Screenprints

04:44exhibition, continues until 8.20. Lovely to speak to you again, Emily, and Hannah,

04:49congratulations on being part of it. Thank you very much indeed.

04:51Thank you. Thank you.

Chichester's Young Pallant Artists - "I feel so proud of all of us"

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