‘Wish You Were Here’ – A community art project during lockdown
In late January 2021, in the depth of winter and the midst of lockdown, a small group of people gathered
Category: Second generation
Better together
Last night I sat in a Dublin B&B for watching a performance unfold in Leeds Playhouse through a laptop screen. It was
Still thinking about co-creation
In March, I posted a question on Twitter about co-creation. What do artists mean by ‘co-creation’? I’m writing about the
It’s still A Dead Good Life
At the beginning of the year, The Lawnmowers premièred the movie that we’ve been working on. I wrote about how
I Remember: Leicester
The books have arrived, and I’m making 12 parcels of authors’ copies and more for people who’ve helped along the
Valleys Kids
Valleys Kids shows how close community art and community development can be, especially when work is rooted and sustained. The
An elegy for ‘The Public’
I only saw The Public from a distance, from the other side of the Midlands, but I liked what I
Relieved of duty
Today, I turn sixty. Such anniversaries are foreseeable, and this one’s long presence on my personal horizon was a reason
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
Why are there so few books about community art?
There are very few books about community art in Britain, despite its 50 year history. The key texts are: 1978, Artists
