Art Works has changed my life! But before I begin to explain how, I need to say a few things about my life before the course. At the age of 14 I lost my mother, this affected me more than anyone could imagine. Once the storm had passed I decided I would move out of [...] read more

Everyone is a photographer now. This is what I’ve heard, and it’s kind of true on one level, if you don’t own a camera you probably have a mobile phone that has got a camera in it, but there is a big difference between owning a device and knowing how to use it. As one [...] read more

  So, already once this year we have had the snow disrupt the country, the roads, people getting to work and schools, colleges, institutions being shut down for people to have a ‘snow day’ (I imagine the reason is more likely to be related to health and safety)…and so on. At the start of December [...] read more

Back at the start of November, the long anticipated course run by Turner Contemporary called ‘Art Works’ began. On Monday 8th at 10am, after several months of planning, advertising, designing, collating, creating, interviewing, appointing and developing partnerships with a number of local organisations, the Art Works course finally kicked off with 30 excited, but potentially [...] read more