Arts & Culture

Sol Force – In Aid of Freedom from Torture

An art banquet for the Summer Solstice.

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Arts & Culture·18 July 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Gordon Ellis Brown

Another Tequila Sunrise was part of Sol Force, which raised over £3,500 for Freedom from Torture.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·10 July 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Tim Ridley

Tim Ridley works between animals and humans through performance, paintings, drawings, collage and film.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·24 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Amy Lawrence

The Worm is a one-worm-band comedy pastoralist artist making songs about nature, waste and everyday life.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·21 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Seamus Moran

Seamus Moran uses combinations of seemingly incompatible ideas to produce sculpture.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·22 June 2019

SOL FORCE: Gillian Cooper

Gillian Cooper presented High on the Hill, Deep in the Valley, an installation in the Quiet Space at Tremenheere.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·18 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Karen Lorenz

Contributing artist to Sol Force.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·18 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: The Seed Sistas

The Seed Sistas are contributing artists to Sol Force.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·17 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Rachel Lambert

Rachel Lambert is an artist and singing forager celebrating forgotten wild food.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·18 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Patricia Wilson Smith

Contributing artist to Sol Force.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·18 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Janet McEwan

Contributing artist to Sol Force.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·14 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Ian Penna

Contributing artist to Sol Force.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·14 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Jonathan Polkest

Contributing artist to Sol Force.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·12 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Ali Braybrooks

Ali Braybrooks presented 50 Shades of Green, a light box, at Sol Force.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·12 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Bernard Irwin

Contributing artist to Sol Force and Freedom from Torture.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·10 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Matthew Benington

Gathered is intended as a monument to displacement.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·13 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Anita Reynolds

Anita Reynolds ran an interactive monoprinting event at Sol Force.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·10 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Christopher Everard

Contributing artist to Sol Force.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·14 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Winnie Lynn

Contributing artist to Sol Force.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·8 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Katrina Naomi

Katrina Naomi is a contributing poet and artist to Sol Force.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·8 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Andrew Swan

Contributing artist to Sol Force.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·1 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Amanda Lorens

Contributing artist to Sol Force.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·1 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Jamie Mills

Contributing artist to Sol Force.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·1 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Mhairi Treharne

Contributing artist to Sol Force.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·1 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Dan Pyne

Contributing artist to Sol Force.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·1 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Ron Ford

Contributing artist to Sol Force.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·1 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Jesse Leroy Smith

Contributing artist and curator of Sol Force at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens.

Sol Force · 1 min read

Arts & Culture·19 June 2019

SOL FORCE ARTIST: Roger Thorp

Roger Thorp has collaborated with Jesse Leroy Smith extensively over the last few years, particularly on The Pantheist and Bardo 7.08 both of which are included in Smith's Force Majeure exhibition at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens.

ON Network · 1 min read

Charities·21 July 2019

Freedom From Torture: “Art gives me peace.”

Above: 'Moonlight' by Freedom from Torture client Iqbal, to be featured in November's exhibition

ON Network · 3 min read

New Museum·10 March 2019

'Geek philanthropy': the gamers raising millions through marathon live streams

Gamers play the endurance driving game Desert Bus as part of Desert Bus for Hope, which launched in 2007 and has raised over $5m for the children’s hospital charity Child’s Play. Photograph: Kolin Toney/Desert Bus for Hope

6 min read

New Museum·15 February 2019

A personal and professional perspective on the school ‘climate strike’

At 11 o’clock this morning thousands of school students in the UK walked out of their lessons to demand increased action on climate change.

5 min read

New Museum·24 January 2019

Could this local experiment be the start of a national transformation?

‘Over the past year, Barking and Dagenham has started to become known as a global leader in taking back control.’ Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare

5 min read

New Museum·22 January 2019

Can Art Relax You?

Can art relax you? Sressed Millennials use galleries to unwind, research shows.

2 min read

New Museum·9 January 2019

Choose Love: The world's first store that sells real products for refugees

Every single purchase you make goes towards a similar item for a refugee, delivered via one of the 80+ projects Help Refugees support across the world.

1 min read

New Museum·8 January 2019

Beauty That Unites: Travels in the Marvelous Harmony of the Chinese people and Vatican Museums

Soft diplomacy between the two countries starts off with an exchange of art.

1 min read

New Museum·8 January 2019

Art can be a powerful medicine against dementia

People living with dementia discuss art at a Royal Academy InMind session. Photograph: Roy Matthews

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New Museum·8 January 2019

Forest Bathing Is the New Global Phenomenon in Nature Therapy

Shinrin Yoku means “forest bathing” or “taking in the forest atmosphere.” In 1982, the Forest Agency proposed Shrinrin Yoku as a different type of therapy which quickly took as picnicking under the cherry blossoms in April and March is a…

3 min read

New Museum·8 January 2019

Bee inspired: why Oslo has put ecological riches at the heart of the city

Kristina Bjureke, the chief botanist at the natural history museum in Oslo, examines a flowering plant with horticulturalist Tor Mjaaland. Bjureke wrote the plant management plan for city’s hay meadow campaign. Photograph: Jonathan Watts…

5 min read

New Museum·8 January 2019

15,000 at Glastonbury set record for biggest human peace sign

People form a giant peace sign at Glastonbury. Photograph: Andy Eliot/PA

5 min read

New Museum·18 September 2019

Emergency Architects & Human Rights

The building is 25 sqm classroom in a dome shape built to host Syrian and Jordanian children in Za’atari village, located just outside of the Za’atari refugee camp, 10 km from the Syrian border.

2 min read

New Museum·7 January 2019

COOL EARTH

Half the world's rainforest has been lost over the past forty years.

1 min read

New Museum·3 January 2019

Artist John Akomfrah Wins Artes Mundi Prize - his work feels particularly urgent.

His work, tackling migration, racism, and religious persecution, feels particularly urgent.

2 min read

New Museum·17 August 2019

Franciscans International - A Voice At The United Nations

We are a Franciscan voice at the United Nations protecting the vulnerable, the forgotten, and our wounded earth through advocacy.

1 min read

New Museum·23 August 2024

Claudia Sings Sunshine On A Rainy Day | WaterAid

Claudia's village, Lubunda , is in a disadvantaged part of northern Zambia, where people once relied on dirty, distant and dangerous water sources.

1 min read

New Museum·1 January 2019

EducAid - learning for life in Sierra Leone

What are the important skills, behaviours, and attitudes that students need to become contributing global citizens?

3 min read

New Museum·1 January 2019

A Sweet Gig: Danish Beekeeping Program Employs Refugees

By operating urban beehives year-round, Bybi helps the environment, gives training, and creates opportunity.

4 min read

New Museum·30 December 2018

Cahier Africain

In the beginning there was a notebook. A notebook about hundreds of broken lives and tragic fates. Director Heidi Specogna wastes no time and shows it to us in the very beginning. She uses the photos of men, children and teenagers, as well…

2 min read

New Museum·30 December 2018

A World Not Ours

The Schwarz Foundation has recently opened A World Not Ours , its exhibition for the summer, curated by Katerina Gregos. The exhibition takes place at the Foundation’s venue in Greece, Art Space Pythagorion , on the island of Samos, one of…

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New Museum·14 April 2026

Featured Story: A knowledge transporter in Afghanistan

School teacher Saber Hosseini from Bamyan, Afghanistan, cycles more than an hour to deliver books to children in remote villages in the province.

2 min read

New Museum·24 September 2019

Dancing out of poverty in South Africa

Taking the floor: Dane Hurst and the Rambert dance floor he moved to South Africa. Photograph: Karl Schoemaker for the Observer

8 min read

New Museum·28 December 2018

From freecycling to Fairphones: 24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life in a capitalist world

11 min read

New Museum·28 December 2018

Diverse candidates make history in US midterm elections

Some of the winners in Tuesday’s US midterm elections will make history when they take office. Here’s a round-up of some of those breaking barriers Stateside, from people of colour to LGBT candidates

2 min read

New Museum·28 December 2018

ABBIE TRAYLER-SMITH 'AFTER DARKNESS'

Anima-Mundi is proud to present Abbie Trayler-Smith’s ‘After Darkness’, an extraordinary exhibition of photography capturing the devastating effects of Isis on the landscape and people of the region.

3 min read

New Museum·27 December 2018

12 Ways The Arts Can Encourage Climate Action

An art installation made with parts of Greenland’s ice cap in Paris at COP21 by Olafur Eliasson. Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images

5 min read

New Museum·23 November 2023

Francis Alys - to work with refugees

Francis Alÿs to work with refugees in Iraq and meet Isil’s victims

2 min read

New Museum·16 May 2018

Global reasons to be cheerful - David Byrne

1. Healing the divide Georgetown is one of Texas’s most conservative suburbs, but gets all its electricity from renewable sources. Its mayor, Dale Ross, a Republican in what is considered oil country, made a decision in 2015. He ignored…

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New Museum·16 October 2025

Featured Archive Story: Ubuntu - I am because we are

An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an African tribe. He put a basket of fruit near a tree and told the children whoever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran…

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New Museum·27 November 2025

Featured: Utopia For Realists - and how we can get there.

Visited the Wellcome Collection yesterday and came away with Utopia For Realists (ON Ed) Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think you know. Rutger Bregman takes us on a journey…

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