Mark Leckey's Music & Video Lab: a presentation of work by Lab participants

Works by Joseph Blackman, Kieran Bland, Phoebe Bray, Chloe Eathorne, Sennen Fardel, Cassius Nice-Garside, Jake Purkiss, Katie Platts, Toby Sadgrove, Kittie Smith and Freddie Thorp.
Produced as part of Mark Leckey’s Music & Video Lab, a CAST initiative that took place in 2022.
In the summer of 2020 curator Clarrie Wallis, who had worked with Mark Leckey on his exhibition O’ Magic Power of Bleakness at Tate Britain in 2019, visited CAST and talked to Teresa Gleadowe about an idea that artist Mark Leckey was developing for an informal art school. Teresa was interested in the possibility of developing this project in Cornwall and invited Mark to describe the idea in more detail. In an email written during lockdown he briefly outlined his vision of a ‘Lab’ that would provide an alternative route for young people to get involved with creative activity. The vision was influenced by his own experience of free art education as a student in the 1980s and by his awareness of the very different economic conditions for young people considering their educational options today.
This vision became more concrete in the spring of 2021, when CAST began work on an application to Arts Council England, proposing a cluster of ‘talent development’ opportunities for artists and young people. The application was successful and CAST approached artist and music producer Liam Jolly, asking him to partner on the project and host it at Auction House, his project space in Redruth.
A call went out to young people aged 18 to 25 and the Music & Video Lab was launched on 7 June 2022, culminating in an open house event at Auction House on Saturday 29 June. Mark Leckey and Liam Jolly led the four-week programme. Gazelle Twin, Patten and Lee Gamble gave talks on Zoom and Amy Lawrence, aka The Worm, led a session at Auction House. Stuart Blackmore provided technical support.
Special thanks to Kieran Bland for preparing this compilation