Dryden Goodwin March 2020 I’m interested in how you capture a sense of someone, of other people, and how you try to understand someone. How you try to articulate an idea of what seems to motivate them, the way they navigate the world, and also to try to get insight into how they see things. […]

Jenny Holt March 2020 I'm drawn to places where the landscape feels caught in tension. Where I live in the South Pennines, there’s a visible and historical tension –avisually kind of primeval landscape haunted by the remains of the industrial age. There’s a strangeness about it, as if something vital is hidden.  I’m interested in […]

Esther Johnson March 2020 I’m interested in forms of documentary; in alternative social histories, those told in an authentic voice. Marginalised stories, looking at how those could be told. Repeated conversations with people and oral histories, are something I’ve used a lot in my work, rather than a formal traditional journalist interview set-up. * I […]

Adam Lewis-Jacob March 2020 I think there’s a much broader, more interesting way to talk and think about practice that’s not going to be very conclusive in a short way, but opens it up for the longer discussion. If I knew the answers now, I’d just stop. From one show to the next, or one […]

Vivienne Reiss During the course of the development and production of the WORK films, the commissioning partners and artists met regularly - in reality and online - to share progress, thoughts and experience. Vivienne Reiss joined these sessions, and spoke with the artists in between times, to consider how the artists, in their distinct approaches, […]

Ian McMillan Here are the words in the reading bank He worked on a building site and in a tennis-ball factory before becoming a full time writer in 1981. He has been poet in residence at English National Opera, UK Trade & Investment, Barnsley Football Club and Humberside Police. He presents The Verb, Radio 3’s […]

Adam Pugh Adam Pugh is a writer and designer based in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he also runs Projections, the artist programme at Tyneside Cinema. Do we need work, or does it need us? The changing face of labour in the last few decades - towards automation, atomisation, autonomy - has, as all four of […]

Helen De Witt Helen de Witt is a curator, lecturer and writer specialising in experimental and artists’ film and independent cinema. She is programme advisor for the BFI London Film Festival and a lecturer at Birkbeck University of London and University of the Arts London. The four WORK films, in very different ways, examine ideas […]

Paul Johnstone Well, it's what we all do a million times a day, but we don't always take it in, do we? That's the thing, I suppose. It's all in the looking, isn't it? It's all in the observing. It's all in, you know...So you can just build a bigger picture of the person. Morning. […]

The Great BearJenny Holt English OakSessile OakPedunculate OakJaponicaLeyland CypressRed CedarWestern HemlockSilver BirchPoplar Red kites, buzzards, kestrels, sparrow hawks. They’re our birds of prey. And then we have cuckoos and jays and everything that bomb about you, as well as all the little songbirds. Trees grow nice and slow and steady, and the kind of work […]

Muhammad Idrish What was brought home is that it was us doing it - in front of the camera and behind the camera. We had two frames, so it was a kind of conversation between people who trusted each other. The reason they could actually express themselves so easily and frankly is because it was […]

Jeanette My dad was awful.We went through all sorts of traumas with him. And we had a wicked stepmother as well.All very ‘Cinderella’. I had to get a job as soon as I could. I had to earn money to keep him in beer and fags. He had a pub and lost everything. He eventually […]