Public Art: Brightening Up Boscombe PDF (81Kb)

Article about the development of a piece of high quality and innovative public art for the new Boscombe Library developed through a partnership of Bournemouth Borough Council Libraries and Arts, East Dorset Housing Assoication and artists. The project won the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyor’s award under the Community Benefit theme.

The project reflected residents’ ideas about the function of the library and promoted the library as an interactive cultural experience.  Published in Nalgao magazine. 

Street Arts: A Dream of an Event PDF (199Kb)

Article about Bournemouth Borough Council’s development of  street arts which aimed to: to raise the profile of good qualityparticipatory arts work in Bournemouth; to highlight how suitable the town centre is for this kind of event, and to persuade decision makers, sponsors, and the public that this could become an annual event with economic impacts to benefit the local economy.

Women Live: A national magazine of writing and artwork by women about their lives PDF (139Kb)

A national magazine of writing and artwork by woman about their lives. To view covers click here.

Social Inclusion: Indoors: Symbolic and Expressive Dimensions’ within Familial Lives PDF (585Kb)

This is an ethnographic study exploring the expressions of six women of their attitudes to engagement in arts and cultural activities, both within the home, school and the public domain.  It identified the purpose and value they attributed to cultural activities undertaken specifically in their homes, and questioned how arts professionals, used to working from an ‘administrative’ approach to audience development research, might develop new relationships in which audiences/ participants were provided with, and are the providers of, knowledge within the cultural domain.  

The study explored the attitudes of women participants of arts projects and was conducted through group meetings and one-to-one meetings over a period of several months. The research, undertaken as a dissertation for an MA (2005), followed the development and management of arts projects organized through a partnership between Bournemouth Borough Council Arts Development and Sure Start Bournemouth (now Kinson and North Bournemouth Children’s Centre).