Rosehill Arts Trust is thrilled to be working with Muncaster Castle and Krankenhaus Festival to unveil a new commissioning opportunity as part of the Krankenhaus Fringe Festival this August Bank Holiday.
Led by Future Arts Centres, Queen’s Hall Arts is leading a local commission that prioritises community voices as part of Our Freedom: Then and Now. We’re seeking an artist or collective to co-create a new public-facing work.
Are you aged 16-24 and living in Tyneside (Newcastle, Gateshead, North or South Tyneside)? Want to work on a creative project and get paid for your time? No prior experience or qualifications required.
Creative Youth Network X We The Curious Creative Futures Residency & Commission Sep – Dec 2025 Creative Futures is offering 4 early-career artists a £500 commission & a 3-month residency each to develop new art &/or performance works, exploring an imagined future.
This residency is a collaboration between Newcastle Arts Development Team, Creative Central NCL and Arcadea, a charity supporting disabled artists across the North East.
Newcastle Arts Development Team in partnership with Newcastle Carers are seeking to recruit a freelance artist to deliver this creative project for Newcastle-based adult carers.
Newcastle Arts Development Team in partnership with Walker Workers are seeking to recruit 2 x freelance artists to deliver a creative project for young people living in and around Walker Park, east end of Newcastle.
On Tuesday afternoon, I took down the installation at Chester Cathedral. Really, it was a case of just putting them all in boxes, trying to keep colours together. Still a back breaking job though. I noticed that some were starting […]
Yesterday was both the opening AND closing event for the #CastTheNetWide #vision project. It was held at Chester Cathedral where they had set up four large screens which linked with several churches in the Diocese. There was a service and […]
Well my installation is up and running, after an exhausting 6 hours of hard work yesterday. The new site for the work ( which I hadn’t seen until yesterday) had been temporarily used as a chapel / prayer space, so […]
Working on from my writings around Black bodies with/in nature, the BALTIC commission which turned out to be The Country Journal of a Blackwoman(Northumberland), became the workings and musings, thoughts and ideas of a composite Blackwoman throughout the generations and […]
“Whether conscious of it or not, archivists are major players in the business of identity politics. Archivists appraise, collect, and preserve the props with which notions of identity are built. In turn, notions of identity are confirmed and justified as […]
I really didn’t mean to leave it so long between blog posts. I did think about writing more, several times in fact, but the content probably wouldn’t have been that interesting to read. In the last 6 months, since I’d […]
Yesterday I did the first workshop at St Michael and All Angels church in Macclesfield, as part of my Diocese of Chester commission. It took an hour and 20 mins to get there, which was a bit of a pain, […]
The story of starting again
In August 2020 Aidan Moesby commissioned me to make work for the Thresholds Online Exhibition at MIMA as part of his DASH Curatorial Residency. I wrote this piece for Aidan to explain my work. I share it here as […]
so here we all are in april 2020 – global pandemic with national lockdown… there’s no easy way to begin this post than to get it right out there – my thoughts are with all those who are affected adversely […]
As an artist, or someone who is called an artist, there are many opportunities to apply for or you are offered. It is difficult to say when something stops being art and becomes something other, as in the boundary to what you are […]
I’m running a workshop in a few weeks time. It’s for adults and its a way to discuss facial recognition. We’re going to be making flick books and gif using rubber stamps. Flick books are surprisingly tricky to make considering […]
I wanted to see how the google facial recognition technology works so I uploaded a photo of myself to google images and searched for other images with it. I wouldn’t have thought to do this normally.. it’s like one step […]
