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Tag: young artists

7 July 2014 For itself / Thinking

A question

An experiment in brevity: I have had this question in my mind for a little while.

25 February 2014 Thinking

Why I don’t tweet

It was my younger son, who’s a digital native, who persuaded me it was a bad idea. I’d been watching

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15 September 2013 Experiences

The power to transform

  Aquatopia, the latest of Alex Farquharson’s highly original themed exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary, explores the cultural history of humanity’s

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3 July 2013 Thinking

Art’s alternative economies

It’s been hard to escape the Glastonbury Festival in the past couple of weeks and clearly many people had no

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21 May 2013 Asides / Thinking

Artists teaching art

Mik Godley, the artist with whom I worked on Winter Fires, is threatened with redundancy from his part-time teaching post

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9 April 2013 Asides / Thinking

A child’s view of the Miners’ Strike

Yesterday morning, Margaret Thatcher died. Her death has been followed by an explosion of polemic, encomium and vitriol, about what

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5 April 2013 Research

The Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans

Next week, I will be in Sarajevo for a conference to mark the end of the Swiss Cultural Programme in

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17 December 2012 Thinking

Copyright vs. the Honesty Box

‘Whereas Printers, Booksellers, and other Persons, have of late frequently taken the Liberty of Printing… Books, and other Writings, without

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6 November 2012 Talks

An even break for young artists

Three months ago, I agreed to make a ‘digital postcard’ for the engage conference, which takes place in Cardiff today

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Francois Matarasso

Francois Matarasso

I'm a community arts worker, writer and researcher based in the UK.

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