Recent work
The Turner Prize at Bradford 2025
Placemaking and visual arts ethical workshop for Our Turn, South Square Centre, and Bradford 2025
Working with South Square Centre, commissioned by Bradford 2025 and in readiness for The Turner Prize’s arrival in the city, we were asked to facilitate a workshop for the newly formed visual arts steering group who would operate as a fringe festival to Bradford 2025.
The session involved learning what placemaking is and how it relates to visual arts, with the second part of the session looking at ethics and equity in public art including working-class output, tackling the concept of consent vs censorship, gender, race, corporate sponsorship or advertising, and deciphering public art reports that don’t face up to artwashing, or clearly define their parameters.
The workshop provided the background needed for the steering group to help develop the group's structure and values and prepare briefs and develop ideas that make room for everyone.
“It was a thought-provoking and challenging look behind the curtain of much public art commissioning”
Workshops are always informal and accessible, and passive creative activities (colouring in, knitting, etc) are catered for and encouraged to create the best environment for comfort, concentration, and a positive environment.
A sample of slides from the workshop:
Women, Consent, and Iconography
A lecture in visual art ethics for Social Lites.
The Social Lites (Urmston) commissioned us to deliver a thought-provoking talk inspired by our writings on Banksy and a lack of critical, ethical content about their work. We delved into the world of consent in public art - who chooses what we see, what should we be faced with, and how public art has drifted seismically from its political, and working-class origins.
The evening involved educating an audience on a century of public art and how it relates to or represents women, the second segment of this lecture related the themes to our own practice and how to remain resilient in public realm that still isn’t designed with women in mind.
