‘Write this down’
It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us
Where We Dream: The Film
My friend Eugène van Erven been documenting community arts for many years, both in his native Netherlands and in other
Mapping the journeys
This is my favourite. This is the last one I did and it just works so well. You gave me
‘Where We Dream’ on BBC local radio
‘Where We Dream’ has just featured on Adrian Goldberg’s BBC WM Radio morning show. He interviewed Sarah Moors, one of
Bill Ming, journeys of change
Different doors Bill Ming is from Bermuda, that lovely group of islands in the North Atlantic that have been a staging
‘Where We Dream’ published
Everybody’s a dreamer… Almost a year ago, I began a series of conversations with people in West Bromwich about their
Overture and beginners
Birmingham, late November 2011, early evening. Along New Street and around the Town Hall, the Christmas Market offers glühwein and
Ways of being an old painter
At the National Portrait Gallery, in London, there is a photograph of two painters by David Dawson. Lucian Freud stands
Why write about people’s life in the arts?
Where we Dream is now with the designer. Before it went, I asked a few friends who work in the arts
Representing people
Work on the portraits for Winter Fires continues, alongside the meetings and conversations with older artists. The aim is to produce a
Conditional artists
The art world divides artists into two kinds. There are artists, by which it means the acceptable figures who conform
Regular Marvels 