Artistic and Creative Media
Visual Arts
- Painting
- Drawing
- Mixed Media
- Installations
Textiles
- Largely focussed on felt making and its inherent possibilities for expression
Print, Design & Presentation
- Banners
- Posters
- Framing & Presentation (Fine Art Trade Guild commended)
Metal Fabrication & Sculpture
- Co-produced design and mould-making
- Steel fabrications
- Copper and other materials
- Iron and Community Iron Pour events
- Clay and Kiln work
- Found Objects
Mosaics
- Something of a ‘signature’ style of SAFE but that is because the techniques lend themselves so well to inclusive practice and key staff hold extensive experience in its practice
Digital Arts
- Photography
- Film productions
- Multimedia Productions, e.g. promoting self advocacy alongside people with complex support needs
- Digital arts
Music
Interestingly, both Brian Dawe and Neville Williams of SAFE are contemporary musicians but a host of Associates can be relied upon to bring a wealth of different musical skills to project development:
Liverpool’s Gladstone House Children’s Service, where drumming and theatrical drama were elements of a significant project with detained children and youth. Cultural artists also gave performances, including Kurdish and African musicians as well as Performance Poet, Curtis Watt
Continuous Professional Arts Development: Metal Monkeys
SAFE works with a variety of materials and constantly pushes boundaries through use of new products and/or techniques. Whilst material choice is somewhat governed by commissioning briefs, this approach to innovation gives the company a competitive advantage, fosters interest for practitioners and often enables us to deliver effective and efficient problem-solving solutions for clients/commissioners
We are establishing a partnership with Metal Monkeys www.metalmonkeys.org who deploy one of very few continuous-pour iron furnaces in the UK. As SAFE develop the skills to work their own furnace, it enables the company to offer mould workshops and for beneficiary groups to witness the actual pouring of the molten iron in their own community setting:
