Coproducing work together: an arts approach with Drawing on the Outside

Image: Drawing on the Outside Workshop May 2023 at God’s House Tower, Southampton In September 2022 I embarked on a new project with local visual artist Sarah Filmer called Drawing on the Outside – a space for men who are experiencing isolation to come together and draw and make. The project was always centred around… Read More

Post pandemic research confirms major issues & potential of UK public art sector

Image credit: ‘Diversity and Equality and Inclusion and Empathy’ by Greg Bunbury (b.1976), Black Outdoor Art. Image used in Beam’s Research Report ‘Building a More Diverse & Inclusive Public Art Sector’. From 2019-2023 I was Chair of ixia – UK Public Art Think Tank. An organisation, which has its roots back in the 1980’s when… Read More

Introducing a new member of the SoCollective Team!

Local independent art producer Katie Daley-Yates becomes the 4th Co-Director of the Southampton Collective along with Mandi Bissett, Clare Diaper and Rebecca Kinge. Katie has been based in Southampton for 10 years now working freelance across the city on a great many different visual arts projects including: ‘a space’ arts Artist Development Programme, Sarah Filmer’s… Read More