The Dreamshare Seer is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. 

Arts Council England is the national development agency for creativity and culture. It champions, develops and invests in artistic and cultural experiences to enrich people’s lives. 

It supports a range of activities across the arts, museums and libraries – from theatre to digital art – reading to dance, music to literature, and crafts to collections. 

Originally set up in 1946, Arts Council England is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. 

Adam Chodzko‘s project in Malaysia was to find out more about Orang Asli indigenous dreaming and how it might be manifested in Malaysian contemporary art and culture.
Learning, through creating an exhibition at Wei-Ling Contemporary, Kuala Lumpur, running workshops, and fieldwork, Chodzko was able to apply aspects of this knowledge into The Dreamshare Seer. This series of approaches, used different dream structures in order to consider experiences of place, identity, representation and communication as well as to attempt to address a colonial gaze.
Some of the amazing people he encountered in Malaysia are now guiding this project: see our About page!

Thanks to Lim Wei-Ling, along with Lim Siew Boon, Mikhail Vanan, Noel Tan & P-Y  at Wei-Ling Gallery.
And to Erica Choong and Florence Lambert from the British Council.

The Elephant Trust helped fund The Dreamshare Seer.

The Elephant Trust was created in 1975 by Roland Penrose and Lee Miller with a view to develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the fine arts in the United Kingdom.

‘To bear in mind at all times an original, inquisitive, open-minded, generous and unshockable approach to art in all its forms with a bias towards the visual arts.’

This injunction, laid down by the original Trustees of The Elephant Trust, embodies the spirit of its founders, Roland Penrose and Lee Miller, and remains the cornerstone of the Trust’s policy today.

The Dreamshare Seer, as an artwork, as research, is a major component of Adam Chodzko‘s practice-led visual art research project for his PhD at Leeds School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University,
(2023 – 2026).

With particular thanks to Professor Simon Morris, Professor Christian Bök and Dr Mathieu Copeland.

Leeds School of Arts is also assisting The Dreamshare Seer project through supervising its ethical considerations, its data management and risk assessments, etc.
With special thanks to Dr Ben Dalton.

Julie Bradshaw is an artist based on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. Julie runs the art education programme for Elmley prison, Isle of Sheppey and is advising us on ways we might offer The Dreamshare Seer to communities in prison, and local people affected by the justice system.

Oliver Edwards and Charlotte Cook are Sheppey-based social media influencers and community connectors, working with Sheppey FM, Sheerness Carnival and many other local organisations. They run The UK Wolfpack and Night Jaguars Arts.

Sheppey Matters is an award winning health and well-being registered charity working together with the regeneration of the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. Established in 1994, it provides over 12 health and well-being community services from the Healthy Living Centre in Sheerness, two outreach locations in Eastchurch and many other community venues around the Isle of Sheppey.

Many of our projects are household names; The Community Chef, Sheppey Wheels & Sheppey Community Media Centre are our most established. Our projects cover a wide range of ages and abilities and are fully inclusive. Our dedicated, hard-working and passionate team of over 29 full and part time staff, ably assisted by over 70 volunteers and not forgetting a fully involved and community minded board of trustees, provides year-round activities, programmes, courses, trips and general advice and assistance.