Chrysalis Arts Development is an agency supporting the visual arts and environmentally responsible arts practice.
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Marton Wood: A New Slow Art Initiative

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Artist in Residence: Yambe Tam

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Read our Christmas Newsletter 2023

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Our 2022–2023 Annual Report

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An Interview with Artist in Residence Yambe Tam

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Glacial Procession by Artist in Residence Yambe Tam

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Late Summer 2023 at Marton Wood

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We connect audiences in the rural North with high quality visual arts.

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Read our Christmas Newsletter 2023

‘Thank you for the most interesting email in my inbox!’
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Our 2022–2023 Annual Report

Our 2022-2023 Annual Report is available now to read online.
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An Interview with Artist in Residence Yambe Tam

Interviewed by Chrysalis Arts Non-Executive Directors Helen Turner and Sara Trentham-Black
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Late Summer 2023 at Marton Wood

A few updates from our slow art initiative at Marton Wood.
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Glacial Procession by Artist in Residence Yambe Tam

Glacial Procession is an invitation to reawaken slow ways of moving, and consider how this most basic relationship of body to land has more broadly shaped our ways of thinking.
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Case Study by Artist Ilana Halperin added to the Greening Arts Practice Guide

Ilana explores her project CHAOS TERRAIN.
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2023 Chrysalis Arts Sustainability Award Goes to Faith Noblet

We are pleased to announce Faith Noblet as recipient of the 2023 Chrysalis Arts Sustainability Award.
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Winter at Marton Wood

What's been happening at the wood from January–March 2023.
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Artist in Resident Yambe Tam at The Art Depot

Our first Artist in Resident at The Art Depot comes to stay.
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Introducing our upcoming Artist in Residence: Yambe Tam

Yambe Tam will be our first Artist in Residence at our home site, The Art Depot in North Yorkshire.
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Unfolding Origins: A lasting legacy

'The project leaves us with a lasting legacy in the outstanding artwork created, the new connections made and the previously hidden voices added to the archive.'
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Autumn at Marton Wood

Our first Autumn at Marton Wood, our latest Slow Art project.
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Catching up with our past GAP Mentees

Our GAP Mentee Programme ran from 2018–21.
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Autumn GAP Session's coming soon

Our GAP Programme will be back this September with a new series of speaker and talks.
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2022 Chrysalis Arts Sustainability Award goes to Shannon Vertigan

Presented annually to a final year student at York St John University whose practice focuses on the environment or environmental sustainability.
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Celebrating our Five Hectares Project at The Art Depot

On Friday 11 June, we held a gathering at The Art Depot to celebrate our Five Hectares Project and the recently finished Five Hectares Environmental Atlas.
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Seeing the Wood from the Trees: BA Fine Art Students from York St John University create artworks in response to Marton Wood

Visual responses and statements from the students.
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York St John Students engage with Marton Wood

Seeing the Wood from the Trees, a Second Year BA Fine Art project at York St John University aims to help the students respond creatively to Marton Wood and to consider their artistic practice in the context of ecological issues.
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Encouraging young people to explore the natural world around them with our Art & Nature Activity Pack

This Spring we’re encouraging young people and families to get outside and explore their surroundings. Our Art & Nature Activity Pack is chock full of resources, video tutorials and ideas to get outside and begin creating.
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Project Update by Emily Wilson, Project Manager

An Autumn update from Emily Wilson, the Project Manager of Unfolding Origins.
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Project Update by Emily Wilson, Project Manager

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Instagram for Artists: How GAP Mentee Anna Whitehouse has grown her audience using Instagram

Learn how Greening Arts Practice Mentee Anna Whitehouse used Instagram to grow her audience online.
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Unfolding Origins at Selby Abbey

As a part of our Unfolding Origins Project, this October we commissioned Artist Alun Kirby to create a series of workshops in conjunction with Selby Abbey.
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Artist Update from Lynn Setterington

Artist Update from Lynn Setterington, one of our Unfolding Origins Artist in Residence.
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Artist Update from Carolyn Thompson

An uppdate from Artist Carolyn Thompson, our Unfolding Origins artist in resident for Ryedale.
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Looking to develop a more environmentally responsible arts practice? We've pulled together over a decade of our own learning and addressing the climate crisis, with case studies from artists plus video interviews with creatives, ecologists and more.

With a range of entry points and approaches for artists at different stages in their creative practice, the time is now to question and evolve your practice to support the kind of future you want to see.

View & Download the GAP Guide
Artwork, Medusa by Jenny McCarthy
'Your GAP Guide has been one if the most important texts relevant to my art practice. I’m working on changing my practice towards a more environmental friendly one, by for example not using acrylics anymore. I’m also experimenting with making pigments. It’s a very slow process and a big rethink, but it’s such an important step.'
Cactus Installation by Andy Plant, photo by Porl Medlock
Chrysalis Arts began to address environmental issues and to adopt a more ethical approach to the company’s working methods and artistic practice in 2006/2007. The development of a Slow Art philosophy and an increased focus on the climate emergency is now central to the content of our creative projects and to our CPD programmes.
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