Tag Archives: Social Activism

Visual activism in the urban landscape #3 – questioning how women’s bodies are displayed

Posted on October 27, 2016 by

The third post on visual activism in the urban landscape, I found this one day in September outside Marks and Spencer’s on St Mary’s Gate in the city centre of Manchester. This Pussy Riot-styled and carefully placed translucent sticker (I … Continue reading →

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Visual activism in the urban landscape #2 – Cities of Hope

Posted on October 26, 2016 by

This second post on visual activism in the urban landscape, shows an image from Manchester’s Northern Quarter Cities of Hope Festival. One of a series of images where international Street Artists championed social and environmental justice and highlighted the need … Continue reading →

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Visual activism in the urban landscape #1 – how immigrants have made Britain what it is today

Posted on October 20, 2016 by

These next three posts focus on visual activism – encompassing a variety of forms of street art, guerrilla campaigning, using posters, stickers, paintings and drawing placed in the urban landscape. These images were all taken whilst going about my daily … Continue reading →

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Citizens for Change, Leeds – exploring the relationship between the artist and activist #1

Posted on August 20, 2014 by

For the last year, I’ve been working on a project that is helping me explore the relationship between being an artist and being a social activist. I’m interested in understanding the drives, processes, outcomes, what is in common and what … Continue reading →

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On Bradford Community University’s – co-producing knowledge for change #1

Posted on January 24, 2014 by

I recently read an interesting article on http://www.opendemocracy.net. Written by Jenny Pearce, she outlined a project at Bradford Community University which ‘aimed at exploring what emerges when academics and community participants try to learn from each other’. The article acknowledges … Continue reading →

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The significance of exploring how we relate to each other as strangers

Posted on July 22, 2013 by

A significant area of thinking came up for me during the Beyond Glorious conference within the discussion following Helen Iball, Sarah Amsler and Sophie Hope’s presentations. The question – how do we relate as strangers to each other? was asked. In … Continue reading →

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Thinking space: blurring the boundary between art practice and social activism

Posted on June 28, 2013 by

Another stimulating presentation at Beyond Glorious Conference was a project led by Luis Solero-Castro. At the heart of Beyond Glorious was debate around the links between art practice and social activism. Luis works at the University of East London, and … Continue reading →

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