What happens when we look beyond the label and ask what makes a child come alive? When our artists and musicians go into schools they are sometimes warned that little Jonnie, Peter or Ben — usually boys — may find the session difficult. Yet quite often the opposite happens. Put…
Preparations have begun for Sculpture at Kingham Lodge 2027 — from choosing new work in Zimbabwe to imagining what thousands of schoolchildren might create next. The last couple of months we have started the process of planning the next Sculpture at Kingham Lodge, which will open to the public from 21–31 May…
Britain’s creative industries generate £124 billion a year. Youth disengagement costs an estimated £125 billion. What might happen if we invested earlier? Two figures caught my eye recently, and the closeness between them is worth pausing on: the creative industries contribute somewhere in the region of £124 billion a year to the…