Collaborators
The Little Cage, Susan Adams, 2018
Abergavenny Food Festival
Abergavenny Food Festival was created in 1999 by two local farmers, Chris Wardle and Martin Orbach, in response to the BSE crisis and the resulting lack of consumer confidence in British produce. It takes place in and around the town of Abergavenny every September, bringing together chefs, food businesses, journalists, farmers and food producers. Peak have worked with AFF since 2018, bringing the Horsebox Studio to present projects by artist Susan Adams, Jon Pountney and Hinterlands Cymru.
Alberta Whittle film still
Art Night
Art Night is London’s all-night free contemporary art festival. Through collaborating with new partners located in towns, cities and rural areas across the country (to include Wales and Scotland), Art Night is reimagining model towards a decentralised, distributed way of working – continuing to put artists and their ideas at the forefront of the programme and creating an interconnected, international network of ecosystems for artists, art institutions and audiences. Peak is collaborating with Art Night on a presentation of Alberta Whittle’s films, Creating dangerously (we-I insist!) at Abergavenny Train Station between 18 June - 17 July 2021.
Llangattock, photo by Jon Pountney
Brecon Beacons National Park Authority
Designated in 1957, the Brecon Beacons National Park’s statutory purposes and duties are to protect the natural beauty of the Brecon Beacons Park; to help visitors enjoy and understand its value ; and to foster the wellbeing of local people.
The Park is administered by a special National Park Authority made up of 24 members, over 130 staff and volunteers. We have had a long history of working with BBNP, and continue to work with them across various aspects of our work including: BBNP Sustainable Development fund supporting projects e.g. Illumine, and collaborating with individual specialists including ecologists, historians, biodiversity teams.
Performance Butty with Stefhan Caddick, Hinterlands Cymru, 2019, photo by Vaida Barzdaite
Canal & River Trust
One of the UK’s biggest charities, Canal & River Trust, cares for 2,000 miles of canals, rivers, docks and reservoirs across the regions of East Midlands, London and South East, North West, West Midlands, Yorkshire and North East, and Wales and South West.
Working with a number of groups, communities and organisations the charity provides opportunities to those who want a greater role in the care of their local canals and rivers. Most recently, we delivered Hinterlands Wales (2018 -2021) - a project led by Peak and Canal & River Trust (C&RT), supported by Arts Council of Wales, inviting artists and communities to explore the Monmouthshire & Brecon canal as a space for creativity, biodiversity & wellbeing.
Peak Horsebox Studio, Green Man Festival 2018 with Natasha Russell
Green Man Festival
The Green Man Festival is an independent music and arts festival held annually in mid-August in the Brecon Beacons, Wales. Founded in 2003, it has evolved into a 25,000 capacity four-day event, showcasing live music and, through partnership with other arts organisations, offering a wider programme of visual art, literature, film, comedy, science, theatre, wellness and family acts. Peak have collaborated with Green Man over a number of years, including hosting screenings, exhibitions and workshops in our mobile horsebox studio. (LINK)
The Mon and Brec Canal, Hinterlands Wales, photo by Vaida Barzdaite
The Green Minds Project
The Green Minds project is a community ecotherapy service based at Brecon & District Mind. The project meets twice weekly in the Brecon area with a small group of members who all share a common interest in the natural world, whether through walking, gardening, conservation or taking part in creative activities working with natural materials. Their ecotherapy service provides a supportive and caring environment for individuals with existing mental health issues or for those at risk of becoming mentally unwell.
as a Raven knows of singing, Stefhan Caddick
The Landmark Trust
Founded in 1965, The Landmark Trust is one of Britain's leading building conservation charities. The Trust sensitively restores Landmarks, offering them a new future by making them available to everyone for self-catering holidays.
Between 2016 - 18, Peak worked with The Landmark Trust to commission a residency programme which involved four artists and one writer ( Cath Baker, Toril Brancher, Stefhan Caddick, Jamie Lake and clare e. potter), responding to the restoration of Llwyn Celyn - a 15th century medieval house in the Llanthony Valley.
Visit to Llangattock Community Woodlands, Illumine, photo by Illumine participants
Llangattock Community Woodland Group
Llangattock Community Woodlands is a registered charity that aims to promote for the benefit of the public the conservation, protection and improvement of small woodlands in the South East corner of the Brecon Beacons National Park. Currently, in partnership with Canal & River Trust, most of their activity is concentrated on a couple of small woodlands that border the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal and includes bee-keeping and charcoal making. LCWG are long-term collaborators of Peak. We most recently worked with them on Ahoi! What Grows Here?, part of the Hinterlands Wales programme, a research project and mapping project exploring the potential of a slow food network along the Mon & Brec Canal.
Performance Butty with Stefhan Caddick, Sam Hasler & MBACT, Hinterlands Cymru, 2019, photo by Vaida Barzdaite
MBACT
MBACT (Monmouthshire, Brecon and Abergavenny Canals Trust) is a small local volunteer-run charity set up in 1984 to fight for the preservation and restoration of the superb Monmouthshire and Brecon canal. In order to achieve its objectives, MBACT works closely with the canal owners and managers: The Canal and River Trust (formerly British Waterways); Torfaen County Borough Council; Newport City Council, Caerphilly County Borough Council and other partners including Monmouthshire County Council, Powys County Council, Brecon Beacons National Park Authority. MBACT are a valued partner of Peak, including use of ‘The Lord Raglan’ - an accessible community boat which hosted ‘Performance Butty', our floating experimental art school for young people in Summer 2019.
Festival of Ideas with Welcome to Our Woods and Owen Griffiths, Skyline, 2019, photo by Mike Erskine
Project Skyline
Project Skyline is a feasibility study that is looking at the possibility of communities managing the landscape that surrounds their town or village. Concerned with what would happen if local people and communities were handed the means to shape their own environment, Project Skyline works with three communities in the Valleys - Treherbert, Ynysowen, and Caerau - as well as all of the key stakeholders such as National Resources Wales (NRW), and the Local Authority, to understand whether and how land that is currently publicly managed could be managed by a local community.
Talygarden & Growing Space
Talygarden is an allotment and garden developed by staff and service users of the Talygarn Unit an inpatient ward, which provides 22 beds for adults aged 16 to 65 who are suffering from an acute mental illness and a Day Hospital which provides a service for 25 adults. The garden is located near bridge 50a on the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal and supported by Growing Space, a mental health and horticulture charity based at Tredegar House, Newport. As part of Hinterlands Wales, artist Ella Gibbs worked with Talygarden and Growing Space to develop composting resources at the garden and a series of workshops between 2018-2019.
Y Gaer
‘y Gaer’ is an exciting and inspirational cultural development, a major attraction for local people and visitors to Brecon and a spur to regeneration for the community of Powys. It unites the classical Shire Hall, containing the refurbished Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery and its remarkable Victorian court room, with a new Brecon Library, education and community rooms and a cafe. In 2018, Powys County Council commissioned Peak to run project Illumine where young people made a portfolio of new and original digital content for permanent display at y Gaer. The work created includes a final film piece, prints, photographs and digital showreels.