Q&A with ‘Winter Experimenter’ Matt O’Halloran
2nd April 2021
Matt O’Halloran tells us about what he made of the opportunity on Arts Lab’s virtual residency....
Thoughts
Wise words from Yinka Shonibare
28th March 2021
The Guardian’s Tim Lewis interviews the artist on fostering hope, why he doesn’t want a retrospective, and making work inspired by Picasso’s African art collection. ...
Forgotten. Not Forgotten
20th November 2020
The need to remember the easily forgotten in these times. Prisoners locked up 23 hours a day give us perspective....
Change
15th August 2020
Everything has shifted so much since the start of the Covid crisis, that we wanted to make work about change....
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....
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...
Human kindness in crisis foreshadowed in prisoner art show
25th March 2020
Current global crisis highlights what really matters as never before...
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. ...
‘Being creative is part of the human condition’ says Theroux
15th June 2019
If you stifle creativity, you're really only leading half a life. We need food, we need air, we need companionship, but we also need the chance to express ourselves...
Why you need art in your life – J. Peterson
9th February 2019
‘Without beauty, there’s no call to higher being. Life is too dismal and tragic with the absence of the sublime.’...