Murals, craft and community art in the 1980s
My early steps in community art In 1982, I got a job as a community arts worker on a council
Category: First Generation
English visionaries: John Fox, Sue Gill and Welfare State
A few weeks ago, I spent a day with John Fox and Sue Gill at their home on Morecambe Bay.
The place of storytelling in participatory art
Is participatory art essentially about artists creating work from the raw material of other people’s life experience? That seems to
Slipping into history
‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.’ L.P. Hartley, The Go Between (1953) Part of what
‘Integrate life and work and friendship’
Integrate life and work and friendship. Don’t tie yourself to institutions. Live cheaply and you’ll remain free. And then, do
An unspoken contract
‘For me It’s an inquiry into an aspect of life that I don’t know about [that] I’m curious about it.
