Friendly Interest
For much of the British media, 2014 began with a panic about the opening of the UK’s borders to people
Category: Essays
Quality in community art (MCV7)
The McMaster Review Fashions sometimes change quickly in the arts, and in arts policy too. In July 2007, the then
Late flowering
Art and wellbeing in old age [This is the English text of a chapter I contributed to a book on
‘All in this together’
The de-politicisation of community art in Britain, 1970-2011 The term ‘community art’ came into use in Britain at the beginning
Drawing together
A couple of years ago Deborah Aguirre Jones began a project working with women experiencing mental health problems in Bristol, where
Culture and the crisis
It’s nearly five years since bank defaults burst the neoliberal economic bubble and the world – or at least the
The art of uncertainty
The effects of the 2008 banking crash continue to spiral, despite the initial confidence of politicians and business people that
Parliament of Dreams 