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Longer read articles exploring our work with artists, communities and socially engaged art

Doodle about Emma Colbert's project putting queer art on a bus
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Artists In Profile: Emma Colbert

Grace Collins interviews Emma Colbert about making art in collaboration with others.
Date
20th Jul 2022
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Drawing recording conversation between Kate Hodgson and Grace Collins
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Artists In Profile: Kate Hodgson

Grace Collins chats with Kate Hodgson about their artistic practice and creating zines with young women in Parr, St Helens.
Date
14th Jul 2022
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Red text on grey background reads 'heart of glass'.
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Conversations With Artists

Writer in Residence Grace Collins has interviewed three artists who have made work in collaboration with others. These interviews examine the creative processes behind a socially engaged art work and explore the experience of working as an artist.
Date
8th Jul 2022
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Close-up of an old mural. Paint flakes off the brickwork and the original image has faded.
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A Historic Mural in St Helens

Searching for the history of Park Farm Community Centre's mural... can you help?
Date
9th May 2022
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A large projection screen sits amongst winter forest at dusk. The screen reflects a bright white image, turning its small audience into black silhouettes.
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Reflections on Chronicle Two: Stand Firm Compassion

Writer Lyn Gardner reflects on Stand Firm Compassion and the film's ability to articulate experiences of grief and loss, as well as considering what it means to care for others in tragic circumstances.
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4th Mar 2022
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A number of women are seated in a room with vibrant green walls. They are chatting to one another and drinking cups of tea. Some of them are wearing protective face coverings.
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Reflections on The Faculty North

Heart of Glass writer-in-residence Grace Collins, reflects on their experience of The Faculty North
Date
26th Oct 2021
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Collectivity
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A collage of images of women on a pink background, with the title 'Miss Piggy's Guide To Queerness.'
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Reflections on Queer Treatment

Pippa Sterk finds common ground through the shared memories of searching for queer representation on the telly.
Date
17th Jun 2021
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Online Thoughts
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A fair skinned woman with long blonde hair sits on the floor in a pile of dirt, she wears a pink silk slip. She has her back to us, with her legs out-stretched, her body is smeared black with dirt. She is surrounded by bottles of wine and wine glasses, many empty, some full.
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Reflections on Chronicle One: Grief

Lyn Gardner speaks to artist Mark Storor on the making of the first part of 12 year project, The Suicide Chronicles.
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24th May 2021
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A garden with a patch of grass, a large green shed and a polytunnel.
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Take Care, With Love

Artist Hwa Young Jung on revisiting her Take Care St Helens project during COVID and reimagining new futures.
Date
29th Sep 2020
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A group of young people stand facing a collection of brightly coloured artworks. The young people are all wearing maroon blazes, some of have long hair and some have short, cropped hair.
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Art in schools post-lockdown: a call for time and space

Art has been sidelined in the school curriculum. Now more than ever we need to give pupils and teachers opportunities to engage with artists, writes Sarah Bailey.
Date
21st Aug 2020
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Young People Collectivity
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Front page of Take Care zine. A pink background with the words 'Take Care' in white letters and the name 'Kelly Green' on a blue rectangle.
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A Care Compendium: Chapter Five

In the final chapter of our Care Compendium, explore more of the projects documenting the many ways in which we are thinking, enacting and valuing care in this moment and beyond.
Date
28th Jul 2020
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Care
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In the bright light of a window stand a plant and a food storage box with cereal.
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A Care Compendium: Chapter Four

Explore more of the projects created through our Home Work commissions series in Chapter Four of our Care Compendium - a document of the many ways in which we are thinking, enacting and valuing care in this moment and beyond.
Date
21st Jul 2020
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Care
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Photo os washing instructions on a clothes label with a violet sparkly pattern overlayed on top.
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A Care Compendium: Chapter Three

Explore more of the projects created through our Home Work commissions series in Chapter Three of our Care Compendium - a document of the many ways in which we are thinking, enacting and valuing care in this moment and beyond.
Date
6th Jul 2020
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Care
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A light pink background with the words 'Be as slow as possible, Pace yourself' in bright red in white boxes with red borders. The number '13' is on the right at the end of the sentence.
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A Care Compendium: Chapter Two

Explore more of the projects created through our Home Work commissions series in Chapter Two of our Care Compendium - a document of the many ways in which we are thinking, enacting and valuing care in this moment and beyond.
Date
30th Jun 2020
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Care
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A painting with words that read 'Now more than ever, we need to take care of each other'. behind the text are paintings of people, 2 are taking a phone call, one is a nurse caring for a boy in a wheelchair, one is carrying groceries, one is delivering food, one is sat at a sewing machine. There is a phone screen that reads 'Mutual aid group', and a sign that reads 'Rent strike now'.
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A Care Compendium: Chapter One

Want to take part in a community act of kindness, support your own arts practice, or need advice on surviving lock down? Take a moment to stop and dive into Chapter 1 of our Care Compendium.
Date
19th Jun 2020
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Care
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A long table set with a pink table cloth, tea set and decorations. A number of people sit around the table. A woman in a pink wig is serving tea. Greenery hangs down and there is lavender on the table.
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Care as a Radical Act

Chrissie Tiller asks if this could be a new way forward for UK arts?
Date
19th May 2020
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Care
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On a hillside covered in a snow several groups of men are gathered. In the background we can see a factory with tall smoking chimneys. In the foreground a man in a black woolly hat and white vest is jogging towards the camera holding a set of keys. Behind him a small group of men in overalls and helmets are facing another group of men in winter coats who are holding fire extinguishers. A man dressed all in black is standing behind them with his arm raised.
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How to nurture a social arts eco system

Harvey Dimond reflects on their experience of our recent series of Artist Professional Development workshops.
Date
3rd Sep 2019
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Collectivity
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With For About: Art & Democracy - An illustrated round up

In May 2019, on European Parliament election day, artists, practitioners, educators, researchers and arts producers from across Europe and the USA, joined us at Ravenhead Social Club (the last Pilkington Social Club) in St Helens for our fourth annual With For About conference: Art & Democracy.
Date
22nd Jul 2019
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Collectivity
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