Lying fallow
Someone asked me yesterday what I was doing now that the book was finished. ‘Resting,’ I replied, and then, since
Valleys Kids
Valleys Kids shows how close community art and community development can be, especially when work is rooted and sustained. The
Publication day
Thank you to all the artists, professional and non-professional, who have shared this journey and trusted me with your work.
Understanding participatory and community art (Part 3)
Community art is the creation of art as a human right, by professional and non-professional artists, co-operating as equals, for purposes and to standards they set together, and whose processes, products and outcomes cannot be known in advance.
Understanding participatory and community art (Part 2)
Participatory art The term participatory art is used in the arts, policy and academia to signify a very wide range
Understanding participatory and community art (Part 1)
In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, culture stands between participation and community. Those words express the concepts most widely used to describe art made collaboratively by professional and non-professional artists: participatory art and community art.
Work in progress
In the heart of midwinter, people in Kaunas shared their community opera as a work in progress, a 40 minute celebration of
Letting go
Today, I approved the printer’s proofs—the moment of letting go. Even on Sunday, as I went through it one last
A brief observation on aerosols
Sometimes you miss the obvious thing, even when you’ve been looking at it for years. Yesterday, as I walked along
Everyone can cook
The idea that everyone can be an artist has always underpinned my work. It seems straightforward to me, but some
Cultural democracy is a fox
A podcast about cultural democracy A long bus journey through rainy Pembrokeshire gave me time to listen to the latest
