First Generation – A Restless Art

Restless Research: Confessions of a Confused Community Art Scholar

If you’ve read some of the material published on this site, I hope you’ll understand why I describe participatory

There are very few books about community art in Britain, despite its 50 year history. The key texts are: 1978, Artists

In 1976, the Council of Europe organised a conference of European ministers with responsibility for cultural affairs in Oslo ‘to

‘Sometimes you’ve got to take risks for the unknown. You don’t know what you are going into but you’ve got

The end of Welfare State Ulverston is a country town a mile or two from Morecambe Bay, in North West

Working in community art often feels precarious, certainly in comparison to more institutionalised areas of the arts sector. Funding tends

More insights from the past: the London Community Video Archive is a fantastic showcase of the work being made in the

Someone recently suggested to me that I should speak of ‘Art in the Community’ because community art seemed to be

‘But what is it for?’ was a question often asked by funders. There has been at least one serious attempt

On 1 & 2 October 2016, almost 300 temporary Fun Palaces were created in Britain, Ireland, France, Norway, Australia and New