We need to talk – facing difficult conversations through art
12th June 2020
We use creativity to tackle some of today's key issues and to broach difficult conversations....
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Lessons from the locked up in lockdown
15th May 2020
If we think we have it bad in lockdown, think of all the prisoners locked up under Covid-19 regulations up to 23 hours a day, every day for months! Isolation...
Arts Lab responds to crisis with ‘Sharing the Light’ project
21st April 2020
We're adapting to address immediate need to combat isolation and anxiety, maintain connection and be positive....
Human kindness in crisis foreshadowed in prisoner art show
25th March 2020
Current global crisis highlights what really matters as never before...
Replacing academia with hands-on creativity
11th February 2020
Alice Clough's Arts Lab residency saw a conscious departure from academia towards immersive, experimental creative practice....
Why prisoners love abstract art
19th January 2020
You may like abstract art, hate it or not understand exactly what it is, but the fact that it evades definition is why it's so popular with prisoners. ...
Teenagers paint for climate change
16th December 2019
Climate change issues, non-judgementalism, freedom and creativity come out strong....
In conversation: ‘snapshots of time’ with resident artist Anna Boland
12th November 2019
Arts Lab’s winter experimenter, Anna Boland, tells us about her experiments capturing snapshots of time. ...
Arts & Health South West Annual Conference
31st October 2019
This year’s theme - Creativity at the Heart of Human Flourishing. ...
Full time nurse gets creativity boost
10th September 2019
I want to be more creative in my spare time and volunteering at Arts Lab seemed a good first step....