When I saw Owen Kelly in March, he generously gave me a copy of his new book, Cultural Democracy Now, and … More
Tag: Community art
Why Nicholas Hytner is wrong about how to save the arts in England
Curtain call of ‘La Gate Perduda’, a community opera I helped with at the Liceu Opera House, Barcelona, October 2022 … More
Remembering Steve Lobb, muralist and pioneer of community art
Yesterday, I received a copy of Geraint Franklin’s Murals and the Community Arts in England 1968–86: A Thematic Study. It’s a … More
Failing to write about uncertainty
A Restless Art was written from a place of relative confidence, although that confidence ebbed during the four years it took … More
Reading optimism
A Restless Art has been available as a free PDF, as well as in print, since January 2019, for reasons … More
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
What is a ‘selfless’ art?
To be honest, I don’t yet know. For now, it’s a signpost, pointing in the direction that seems most promising. … More
Time to go inward
It’s time to go inward man I hope I have the nerve To take an inventory of the causes that … More
Principles of co-creation?
Three years after it began, the Traction project is finally complete. A review meeting with the European Commission two weeks … More
Co-creating Opera: Presenting the learning from the Traction project
Regular visitors to this site (and its retiring companions) will know that I have spent much of the past three … More