The HeartBeat project has grown out of the Warli Project which was initiated by A FINE LINE as part of a programme of international artists exchange. In 2017 the HeartBeat project was developed and devised by Barney Hare Duke, the Director of A FINE LINE and Artistic Director of the British Ceramics Biennial and Professor Stephen Dixon, Ceramic Artist and Head of the Craft Research Group at Manchester School of Art. A special funding programme set up by Arts Council England “re-Imagine India” to mark the 70th anniversary of independence of India and Pakistan provided the principal resources to fund the project. which included the core components; an artists residency in Palghar district Maharashtra which brought together team of 6 artists from the UK together with 6 from India and for two weeks, a series of 10 Warli paintings based on the subject of “change” were commissioned by the project from 10 artists associated with the Warli project programme, and a sequence of exhibitions in India and UK.
