The complexities of cultural democracy

When I saw Owen Kelly in March, he generously gave me a copy of his new book, Cultural Democracy Now, and … More

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

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

A Restless Art was written from a place of relative confidence, although that confidence ebbed during the four years it took … More

A Restless Art has been available as a free PDF, as well as in print, since January 2019, for reasons … More

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

To be honest, I don’t yet know. For now, it’s a signpost, pointing in the direction that seems most promising. … More

It’s time to go inward man I hope I have the nerve To take an inventory of the causes that … More

Three years after it began, the Traction project is finally complete. A review meeting with the European Commission two weeks … More

Regular visitors to this site (and its retiring companions) will know that I have spent much of the past three … More