Lara has a finger in lots of imove pies!
Lara Goodband is a freelance artist-curator. After graduating in art history from the University of York and Manchester University, Lara went on to take up her first post as Exhibitions Curator at York City Art Gallery. Lara moved to Scarborough in 2002, to develop a new exhibitions programme at Scarborough Art Gallery and to live by the sea. Since 2008, Lara has worked as a freelance art curator specialising in the development of exhibitions in partnership with artists. She has worked as an artists’ mentor and is a visiting lecturer at the education department of the University of Hull, Scarborough. Lara is project curator for Wingbeats, art curator for Extraordinary Moves and is now using her specialist knowledge and artistic talents to turn documentation and curation into art for Sea Swim.
Wingbeats – a taster…
Swooping on us this summer and the next, Wingbeats is about flying, birds, poetry, song, dance, art, performance and the stunning landscape of the East Yorkshire coastline....
A Glimpse into Sea Swim
Scarborough, writing and taking the plunge! Filmed at South Bay on a cool June day with brave swimmers and a foolhardy cameraman....
Sea Swim through a club member’s eyes
We asked Sea Swim club member, Ella, to tell us about sea swimming....
Sea Swim – Claire tells it like it is
Our sea swimmer, Claire, gets straight to the point......
Lara talks Sea Swim
Keen swimmer and creative Lara Goodband tells us about Sea Swim....
The thinking behind Sea Swim
John Wedgwood Clarke explains how Sea Swim came about and about how swimming helps free his imagination....
imove and… sea swim
Our Sea Swimmers finish the sentence 'i move and...' to tell us how they feel when they move....
Castle Headland, read by John Wedgwood Clarke
Scarborough poet and avid Sea Swimmer, John Wedgwood Clarke, reads 'Castle Headland', one of his Scarborough Elegies....
Wingbeats
Flying is the ultimate freedom of movement and Wingbeats explores flight in all its forms, from the bevies of birds at Bempton and Flamborough Head to the inspirational story of Amy Johnson, Yorkshire’s own aviatrix. Wingbeats is teaming amazing artists with local schoolchildren to create work inspired not only by the theme of flight...
Sea Swim
If you go down to the beach today..... Swimming in the open sea is a simple, free and timeless pleasure. It can be exhilarating; it can make us feel sharper and more alive; it can give us the space to look at the world from a fresh perspective and can bring us to our senses....
Extraordinary Moves
What does it mean to be human? What would it mean to be more than human? Would you like to perform better than ever before: run a mile in half a minute, leap tall buildings in a single bound? What if technology could make this happen? Maybe it can........ In the 21st century anything seems...
