A Selfless Age? From ‘Winter Fires’ to ‘1001 Stories’

Gwen Sewell and Rosie Wheatland, iPad painting by Mik Godley from Winter Fires (2012) I think about unravelling it, but … More

‘HerStory’ – A co-created opera for World Parkinson’s Day

In May 2021, as part of our research into opera co-creation, I arranged a meeting between some of the Traction … More

Art with the experience of age

In the new episode of ‘A Culture of Possibility’, Arlene and I spoke with two old friends, David Slater and … More

‘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 … More

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 … More

Trusting the process, again

In January 2021, for the first time in my life, I wrote a long, detailed outline for a community art … More

A story that deserves telling

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

Movimento de Expressão Fotográfica

The development of a visual aesthetic culture in all its conceptual dimensions and its accessibility to EVERYONE is fundamental to … More

‘We want to be remembered.’

‘Sometimes you’ve got to take risks for the unknown. You don’t know what you are going into but you’ve got … More

Need to know

At a conference in Sydney last week, I was able to catch up a little on current thinking in arts … More