Founded in 2019 on the Dartington Trust estate in Devon, Aller Park Studios was a contemporary art project produced by artists Josie Cockram and Keiko Yamamoto. We presented workshops, film screenings, talks and live performances at events that were conversational rather than presentational – sharing work we loved, work in progress and thinking out loud. The programme was ambitious and experimental, welcoming local and international artists and performers. It was open to all.
Our public programme was suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic.
From 2020 – 2022, the project evolved under a new name, Aller Aller, and hosted an artist-led reading room and research group.
*This event was programmed for 2020 and unfortunately could not take place* Meeting in the Playhouse, in the midst of Dartington Gardens, artist and Aller Park Studios co-founder Josie Cockram will lead a discursive Spring walk through the gardens with Maria de Lima and Ben Sanderson. The artists walk – or ‘artists amble’! – will […]
Monday 18 November, 7pm. Doors open at 6.30pm Ami Yamasaki sings the sounds of brooks, birds, trees and waterfalls. An experimental vocalist and cross-disciplinary artist from Tokyo, she creates live acoustic performances, installations and films. Ami’s work explores a fundamental question: ‘How does the world construct itself?’ For her, this question is a love letter […]
If you missed October’s talk at the studios with actor Gretchen Egolf and artist Adam Chodzko, you can listen to our recording online: Gretchen and Adam gave a generous talk about their respective experience of performance as part of Embodiment and Performance, a weekend of activities exploring the ideas of Michael Chekhov, the actor, director […]
Having launched the project with our spring programme, we’re taking a summer break and there are no public events in July. Thank you to everyone who joined us for events in the programme so far, and thank you to our guests: Ellen Mara De Wachter, who introduced a screening of films by Robert Smithson and Nancy […]
We’ll publish recordings of performances and talks at Aller Park Studios whenever possible – listen now to O YAMA O’s performance last week! On this site, you can find recordings on our LINKS page, where you’ll also find links to websites, broadcasts and articles relating to the artists, writers and performers who present their work […]
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first event at Aller Park! It was great to welcome a full house for a screening of two films by Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt: Spiral Jetty and Mono Lake – served with Keiko’s delicious spiral jetty sushi, jurassic eggs and sake. Huge thanks to Ellen […]
A quick tour of the studios… This is our project space – where Keiko is working at the moment. We’ll also use this space to present artist film screenings, talks and workshops. This studio last year housed Sarah Gillespie, Aller Park’s artist-in-residence in 2018. Josie is currently using a space which was an office when […]