Blogs from artists, participants and art centres written during the project, which give insight into the highs and lows of individual Here and Now projects.
Prior to the life we learned as lockdown, the before time, I’d applied to be part of what I thought was an artist’s group with HOME, which was supported and facilitated by Nicola Miles-Wildin and Victoria Howarth (along with Maddy Coster in the first half of the project). Having neglected to realise that the group […]
Visual artist Caroline Cardus’s art practice focusses on creative activism. Her text based, subversive and graphic style practice brings forth frank, darkly humorous and powerful messages about the human impact of inequality and discrimination. www.carolinecardusartist.com www.instagram.com/caroline_cardus
In March 2020, I was preparing to close down my exhibition called Jambo Cinema at New Art Exchange, Nottingham. I recall watching the news when Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced to the nation an imminent and unprecedented lockdown for all residents living in the UK. It was a surreal time and I almost felt like […]
2017 was a horrific year for me, and in the years following I suffered from social isolation quite bad. It’s something I’d suffered with on and off since being homeless in 2007 but a variety of very difficult life experiences in 2017 led to my social isolation becoming the worse it ever had been. However, […]
Portrait in Ten Parts is a collaboration between ARC, Invisible Flock a studio of artists based in Yorkshire, Umar Butt a writer and theatre maker who lives in Stockton and the community who gave us their time to speak to us for this project. Over the course of a couple of weeks we met with […]
Some words from Artist Jo Fong What is the project? All in all. Making the spaces between people live and putting a few questions in the air, that’s kind of it. I realise that this question, What will people need? is still relevant. It was the question that was on my mind whilst in […]
Like most people, March 2020 turned my life upside down. I’m a freelance performer and was buzzing with excitement for what this year had offered me. I was about to go work on a BIG feature film, in my first stunt role and had a theatre commission that was literally the stuff of my dreams […]
Bollywood on VHS, walkmans and recording the Top 40 charts onto cassette tape: Dawinder Bansal tells us why she and Martyn Ware have created a project about finding love in the 1980s
Nilupa Yasmin tells us about her Here and Now Project with Midlands Arts Centre, and how it connects her to her grandmother.
For their Here and Now project with Brewery Arts Centre, imitating the dog will draw on collected stories from the streets of Cumbria to create a multimedia walk-through installation. We spoke to the team about what’s happened so far…