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Curators’ note: “This one’s for the balustrades, the locals that are part of the architecture”

Posed headshot portrait of two men sat down in an art studio, looking straight at the camera with slight smiles
Photo credit: Sophia Spring

As the inaugural guest curators of Skin Deep’s first editorial season, RESOLVE Collective wanted to use this space to big up the extraordinary work of local community support structures by making visible, audible, and tangible the ordinary moments that underpin them.

Published 14 December 2021
Categorised as Reflections Tagged season-local

Three Sheffield artists visualise a living oral archive gathered by community centre SADACCA

Illustration: 'Cora' by Tomekah George

A Sheffield African Caribbean association is recording stories from the community it has served since the 1950s. We asked three Sheffield-based artists to create original artworks responding to this oral archive. Art by Grace Lee, Ashley Holmes and Tomekah George.

Published 14 December 2021
Categorised as Uncategorised Tagged season-local

A love letter to an iconic Camden youth centre, and the caregivers who have held the space over generations

An illustrated image of four young children sitting on a park bench, with flowers that have been illustrated around their heads
Illustration by Tamara-Jade Kaz

While hundreds of youth centres in the UK have been shuttered in the last decade, the doors to Coram’s Fields remain open. This is an ode to the centre and its staff, written by people who are grateful to have passed through. Illustrations by Tamara-Jade Kaz.

Published 14 December 2021
Categorised as Uncategorised Tagged season-local

The YARD that MAIA built: Growing an ecosystem of support for artists in Birmingham

At YARD, a prototype artist-led hotel, MAIA is using food, family and physical space to meet the practical and economic needs of artists in the city.

Published 14 December 2021
Categorised as Uncategorised Tagged season-local

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