From Dale Lately, Cultural Critic and Writer From Manchester Let’s stop pretending. We creatives also have a hand in gentrification Stop me if this sounds familiar. According to the city’s newspaper, “The first floor bar will be crafted by an expert joiner in the style of an antique yacht, while…
Artists working in Stoke-on-Trent are invited to take part in a discussion about how we can identify and prepare for gentrification. Debate will centre around a number of ‘letters from the gentrified’ written specifically for this event by Artists working in Bristol, Margate, London and Manchester. FREE ENTRY Refreshments provided…
In both its Art Deco style and central location, the aptly named Majestic Court in Stoke, Staffordshire bridges the aesthetic gap between the Victorian library and the mid century market it faces, towering over both. Occupying the ground floor is Majestic Studios, an artist led work space. Inside the character changes…
Public Artist Nicola Winstanley will this year be turning her attention to Stoke, one of the 6 towns that makes up the city of Stoke-on-Trent. Nicola will be spending the next 9 months getting to know Stoke, observing the patterns and flows of daily life in the town and installing…
With thanks to Appetite Stoke for funding this period of research, where I looked into the purpose of art in the public realm. You will find below the links to my findings including a summary of my report. Please let me know if you have and questions our would like…
So here it is, my first ‘product’! Brought about by my curiosity about urban spaces and my research, I have produced a pocket sized pack of cards called A Drifters Guide to Urban Wandering. They will be available to buy here from 1st Dec. Firstly, here is a little about…
When by chance I bumped into Sarah Nadin at the Burslem School of Art in 2008 I could never have known how important it would be. She was hanging photographs for an exhibition that my (then) boyfriend was showing at too. We did know each other loosely through our mutual friend Megan,…
Another example of Appetite‘s programme of arts events in Stoke-on-Trent, ‘Play Me I’m Yours’ is coming to town from the 1st August in locations all across the city. The brainchild of british artist Luke Jeram, PMIY begins with a number of pianos that are donated by local people that are then…
How can I create art in the public realm that communicates clearly to it’s audience? The research project I’ve been working on over the past 2 months grew from this question and out of the anxiety that, regardless of my ability to identify what is important to people, if I can’t communicate it…
One of the unmistakable draws of any town or city centre is shopping, and it heavily controls how we use these public spaces (as we discovered in this previous blog post). People sometimes shop out of necessity but more interestingly people shop for pleasure. But what is at the root…