Scott Sherrard Archive

  • Links round-up: autumn work and play

    As illustrated by the ancient game of Conkers, the best kind of fun is backed up with plenty of hard work and preparation behind the scenes. (Well, you have to do the varnishing and baking to win the game). Combining fun and hard work in many forms, Creative October continues...

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  • Links round-up – ways to be creative

    Links round-up – ways to be creative

    Photo by Hatch as featured in Nottingham Visual Arts A great deal is said about creativity. As our latest guest blogger, Scott Sherrard, has been sharing with us, a lot of it is down to where you are - and where you choose to look. So keep...

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  • Guest blog: I Don’t Know Who Discovered Water, But It Wasn’t A Fish

    Guest blog: I Don’t Know Who Discovered Water, But It Wasn’t A Fish

    I’m writing my blog this week sitting in a hotel room in Berlin. It’s my first visit to the city although some years ago I wrote an interpretation plan for an attraction here that introduced visitors to Berlin’s story. My qualification apparently was that I...

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  • Guest blog: A destination without branding is like a balance sheet without goodwill

    Guest blog: A destination without branding is like a balance sheet without goodwill

    I’ve worked almost all my life with brands so you’ll understand I’m pretty passionate about their value. There are times, however, when I wonder if the vocabulary that surrounds them is a devaluing one. As I’ll hope to explain, I believe that a corporate brand...

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  • Links roundup: Three openings and One light opportunity

    Links roundup: Three openings and One light opportunity

    Already (just) open is Angela Ho’s  “Animal Kingdom” exhibition at ncn Lace Market Gallery in Nottingham.  Her “portrayal of animals mirrors the bizarre fantasy of surrealism with subconscious subjects and collective experience”.  Samples and more details are on our Community site.  If you read our Community site, always...

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  • Guest blog: where do ideas come from?

    Guest blog: where do ideas come from?

    I guess this is a reasonable question to ask someone involved in a project whose ambition is to create a thriving community ‘driven by creativity’. It’s such a vexed question that it’s not surprising that some companies have always been content to reply “We don’t...

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  • Introducing Scott Sherrard – our new guest blogger

    Introducing Scott Sherrard – our new guest blogger

       We’d like to give warm welcome to our new guest blogger - Scott Sherrard from the Welbeck Project. We asked him ten questions to get to know him a little bit better…  Who are you? I’m part of the development team at the Welbeck Project. It’s an ambitious scheme to...

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