artists – François Matarasso

Power, promises and participatory arts

Circuit is a four year programme, led by Tate and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, that aims to connect young people

The last days of September in Orkney: weather fine and sunlit mirrors in Scapa Flow and Hoy Sound. The sky

The revolution in information and communication technology has given us 24 hour news, social networking and instant access to the

A baking July afternoon in Lincolnshire. Everything feels flattened under the heat: sheep, crops, fields. The houses I pass are

It’s uncomfortable for a writer to admit, but sometimes words fail us. They seem to have done so both before

Forgotten empire The almost complete absence of imperialism and particularly of colonialism from British public discourse has always struck me

This is an anxious time for the 700-odd organisations who get regular funding from Arts Council England, and for those who

‘I want to change, but not if it means changing,’ a patient once said to me in complete innocence. This

There was a spontaneous peal of applause in the Teatro Central at the end of this film yesterday, where I

At Seville Cathedral today, my breath was taken away by the power of a building designed, made and decorated by