A number of organisation and individuals have generously supported Fresh Take, without their collaboration this innovative project could not have taken place.
Fresh Take was supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
The project also received funding from Creative Peterborough which is an artist-led network aiming to build relationships within the city’s creative community to raise the profile of the arts and culture. With a membership of over 1,000, Creative Peterborough promotes local creative people through a series of initiatives including funding opportunities, collaborative events and exhibitions, talks, mentoring and networking. For more information please visit www.creativepeterborough.com
The city centre gallery and shop, Art in the Heart, has a unique ethos, assembling some of the best artists and artisans within a 20 mile radius of Peterborough: the mark of quality in a relevant context linked to high street aspiration and economic prosperity. Director and founder, Dawn Birch-James, is a member of Fresh Take’s Advisory Panel, mentoring artists on the more commercial aspects of their work. For more information please visit www.artintheheart.co.uk
Sheelah Mahalath Bewley is a London-based conceptual artist. Her practice is observational and hints at small unnoticed cultural assumptions. She often works with found and gendered objects that through discreet interventions reveal safe patterns of behaviour that are unquestioned and remain accepted as normal. She was a member of the Fresh Take selection panel and worked with the artists as a mentor.
Metal is an artistic laboratory based at Chauffeurs Cottage, St. Peters Road, Peterborough where the project’s initial research and development meetings were held. It is a space created for the development of creative ideas, artists residencies, community and education projects, events and conversations in response to the city. www.metalculture.com
Laura Mason is a highly respected food historian whose books include Sugar-Plums and Sherbert – The Prehistory of Sweets. She has extensive knowledge of the history and uses of sugar, much of which she generously shared with artist, Kathryn Parsons, during the research stage of Fresh Take. Deeply interested in the links between food and landscape, she also compiled Taste of Britain and has written several cookery books for the National Trust.
Geraldine Dahlke is a specialist sugarcrafter and artist who explores new ways of using sugar, both for cake decoration and in her artwork. Author of The Book of Patterned Pastes: For Cakes and Sugar Work, she also teaches and demonstrates sugarcraft throughout the UK and has won Silver and Gold medals at international competitions. Her shared observations on using sugar for sculpture facilitated Kathryn Parson’s work for Fresh Take.