Over the last few weeks we have had the pleasure of welcoming Paula Morison to West Dean College as Artist-in-Residence. Based in the Fine Art studios, Paula worked alongside Graduate Diploma Fine Art and MFA students on a daily basis. Here, she talks more about her residency.

LIDO, an exhibition by interdisciplinary design collective RESOLVE, opens at De La Warr Pavillion in May. The exhibition is part of What The Wild Things Are, an artist research collaboration between RESOLVE, Wellcome Collection, De La Warr Pavilion and West Dean College of Arts and Conservation.

Rooted Beings, a major new exhibition, opens at Wellcome Collection in March; featuring work by Resolve Collective as part of the ‘Re-wilding: Coast, Countryside, City’ commission with partners De La Warr Pavilion, Wellcome Collection and West Dean College.

Short story writer and novelist Anna Chilvers discusses her December 2021 Writer's Residency experience at West Dean College.

Artist-Maker Viviana Rossi-Caffell tells us about her experience as Maker In Residence at West Dean College of Arts and Conservation.

Artist Sherie Sitauze talks about her plans for her residency as part of the College's Whose Heritage? research project.

To celebrate International Women's Day 2021, we’re highlighting the work of two forthcoming artists-in-residence, Sherie Sitauze and Sonia E Barrett. Both artists have been invited to respond to the College’s African Collection as part of the Whose Heritage? research project.

In our latest blog, Writer-in-Residence Yvvette Edwards, reflects on her time at West Dean: a creatively inspiring experience in ‘one of the whitest spaces I’ve ever stayed in’. Her thoughts on hypervisibility during her stay offers an open and honest insight into her experience as a Black author, and we thank Yvvette for sharing this with us.

Artist Alec Stevens is West Dean College's first remote Artist-in-Residence. Alec is working from his studio to develop new work in response to West Dean's surreal interiors and new-found research on Edward James. Read the blog post to find out more about Alec's process and plans.