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.
Category: History
The difficulty of thinking outside of the box
Community and participatory art has long roots in Britain. Its practice owes much to ideas that were developed in the
And the 2015 Turner Prize goes to… community art
‘If art isn’t about people and humanity, then what is it about?’ Hazel Tilley BBC Newsnight The annual Turner Prize,
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.
