François Matarasso

Archives 1980-2024


A Restless Art describes the history, theory and practice of community art. It’s free to download here, along with case studies and other resources.

A Selfless Art is my current project – it’s a radical reassessment of co-creation and community art, prompted by experiences since A Restless Art was published in 2019. This is a personal journey and I don’t know where it will lead, how long it will take, or if there’s a book to publish at the end.

Elsewhere on this site you can find the five books in the Regular Marvels series, reports, essays, and other writing going back to the 1970s. The podcast about cultural democracy that I co-host with Arlene Goldbard is here.