Filament Works

Filament was developed with support from Torbay’s Great Place Scheme as part of its building resilience strand and enabling new models of governance work. Through 2019, Eyeview worked with artists and communities, developing site-specific commissions, participatory projects and community actions. Through this, we saw a need for an agile producing house that could work imaginatively with communities to produce impactful work with the independence to flex, experiment and think sideways. Our focus is to produce work that builds a more resilient, diverse and progressive cultural ecology, supporting individuals, communities and place. We do this through: Developing place-based collaborations with communities; Shaping new cultural programmes; Co-creating interventions that tackle specific challenges for people and place; Producing artist-led initiatives; Supporting networks, skills and capacity-building. At the centre of this work is an ongoing enquiry that asks how we can encourage and enable the diverse and indigenous culture of a place to continually shape its own distinct sense of identity. We believe that by democratising and integrating the working methods of artists, communities can collectively problem-solve, imagine new possibilities, and together build community wealth.