Kathryn Hodgkinson, Author at a-n The Artists Information Company

Kathryn Hodgkinson has been working as a public artist and studio group director for the last 16 years. Recently, her practise has become increasingly direct action and campaign-oriented with a fours on the potential to change culture in cities via planning and collaboration with local authorities. http://kathrynhodgkinson.com

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Resisting gentrification: why we should fight hard to protect affordable creative spaces

by Kathryn Hodgkinson

Newcastle-based artist Kathryn Hodgkinson believes that the city council’s planning decisions are having a detrimental effect on the area’s creative community. In the wake of the recent decision to demolish the creative space Uptin House to make way for ‘yet another block of student flats’, she argues that local authorities need to embrace the true value of artists.