1. Olivia Plender
    1. Many Maids Make Much Noise

    2. What is School?

    3. Rise Early, Be Industrious

    4. Information, Education, Entertainment

    5. The Medium and Daybreak

    6. Artefacts

    7. Printed Matter

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A series of projects on education

The Falkenberg Encyclopaedia

public art project, commissioned by Public Art Agency Sweden & Falkenbergs kommun, 2024

What is School?

public art project, Gävle, Sweden, 2016–19

Easton Fables

children’s book, commissioned by Foreground and Bristol City Council, 2016

The Inside Out Lion

a storytelling game for children, commissioned by Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2023

Practising Politics: The Fogelstad Women’s Citizenship School 1925–1954

solo show, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, 2019

Open Forum

mixed-media installation, ‘Rise Early, Be Industrious’, MK Gallery (Milton Keynes), Arnolfini (Bristol), and CCA (Glasgow), 2012–13

Society is a Workshop

summer school, Banff Centre, Canada, 2013

Life in the Woods

free school and video, in collaboration with P. Staff, commissioned by Radar, UK, 2011

Beyond Former Heaven (or the Institute of Surrealist Ethnography)

summer school, Banff Centre, Canada, 2010

War Path

education project, Tate Britain, London, 2006–07

Teaching, Lectures and Workshops

  1. (Many Maids Make Much Noise)

  2. (Rise Early, Be Industrious)

  3. (Information, Education, Entertainment)

  4. (The Medium and Daybreak)

  5. (Artefacts)

  6. (Printed Matter)