England – A Restless Art

Talking with Northern Heartlands

In February, I spent a couple of days in County Durham, meeting artists and local people involved in the Northern

Murals were a cornerstone of the early community art movement. Between the 1960s and 1990s, hundreds were painted, mostly outdoors,

In February, I participated in the kick-off meeting of TRACTION, a Horizon 2020 project researching how digital technology can support

Kevin Ryan, a pioneer of community art in England, died in hospital on Wednesday, 22 April 2020. He had been

On Tuesday, I’d planned to go to Leeds to meet Alan Lane of Slung Low, and learn at first hand

At the beginning of the year, The Lawnmowers premièred the movie that we’ve been working on. I wrote about how

Everyone knows the theatres are closed, along with cinemas, concert halls, museums and galleries. Yesterday, the 2020 Edinburgh Festivals were

Yesterday I got an email from a research student called Chloé Bradwell who wanted to contact artists who had worked

Tomorrow evening at the Young Vic Theatre in London, I will give the 10th Annual Anne Peaker Memorial lecture, on