Artist-led: Rame Projects

Can you tell us about Rame Projects, who you are and what you do?

Rame Projects is a contemporary arts project space in South East Cornwall. We are an artist-led organisation dedicated to testing out new ideas. Our base is a large studio space in a Napoleonic Barracks Block in Maker Heights, in the Cornish National Landscape (formerly known as Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty). We also work with the Rame Conservation Trust to programme the Millbrook Chapel Of Rest as a space to exhibit art.
We work with local and national artists at all stages of their careers, and with community groups in the Rame Peninsula, South East Cornwall and Plymouth.

Can you tell us why you set up and how Rame Projects is important in the context that you are working in?

We set up Rame Projects as (as practitioners ourselves) we recognise how few and far between residency and commission opportunities are which offer artists the freedom and support required to push our practices further. We work with local and national artists at all stages of their careers, and with community groups in the Rame Peninsula, South East Cornwall and Plymouth. We give artists space to make work with a focus on research and development; experimentation, play, respite and retreat. All our projects are deeply rooted in place and respond to contemporary and historic themes. Our work is rooted in imagining a hopeful future.

Can you tell us about what you are currently working on and if you have any projects coming up you’d like to share with our network?

I hadn’t finished talking to you yet is a residency and roving event project which uses art as a vehicle to understanding and feeling death, loss and grief. The events will show artworks by artists making work about bereavement, creating conversations with community groups and audiences, using their artwork as a way to unpack grief. There will be six events across 18 months in cultural community spaces in Devon and Cornwall. There will also be three two-month residencies for national artists to come and make work at Rame Projects, with two public workshops per iteration around the themes of death/ loss/ grief/ bereavement.

Can you describe your space and context, and how you operate and are funded?

Rame are located on a cliff-side, surrounded by farms and sea, in a large studio space. Maker Heights also houses other studio holders and small creative and community businesses, along with seasonal camping and a brilliant restaurant/cafe. Rame are a community interest company (CIC) and are supported by project through funders like Arts Council England and FEAST.

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