His PhD was a collaborative doctoral partnership between East Street Arts and the University of Huddersfield.
Jon researched the provision of housing by artist-led organisations and undertook an ethnographic study of Artist House 45, a pilot housing project by East Street Arts. He observed that artist-led organisations are conceiving of housing projects as both collective artworks and interventions within the housing market and sector. This led him to argue that artist-led organisations are occupying roles that differ from those of other ‘alternative’ housing practices such as community-led housing.
Artist-led approaches to housing don’t nest easily within pre-existing participatory models or coalesce into a coherent housing movement with shared characteristics, demands and goals. In response to this, he has developed new strategies and approaches, rooted in and among the day-to-day processes of artist-led organisations, for communicating, translating, and scaling artist-led housing.
Through his embedded ethnographic approach, he has been able to feed research back to East Street Arts quickly, allowing responsive interventions to be made while Artist House 45 was unfolding.
Jon’s thesis is available online on the University of Huddersfield website.
For more information on Jon’s work visit his website.
Other things!
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Artists
I'm Gonna Find You White Rabbit! by Silvia Liebig
Silvia Liebig's artist book I'm Gonna Find You White Rabbit!: Being Beeston Projekt 2019-2023 is now available to buy.
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Event
Reproductive Futures: Creative Workshop
Join artist Herfa Thompson and academic Zoe Tongue to explore your reproductive health experiences, responding to the duo's Reproductive Futures exhibition, in this visual art workshop.
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News
Welcome to our new trustees
We’re thrilled to welcome two new trustees to our Board following a recent round of open recruitment.
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News
Artist selected for Taipei artist residency
Leeds-based artist James Thompson has been selected for a sought-after six-week residency at Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taiwan, from August to September 2024.
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Commission
Making Public Art - a new interview series
We worked with some wonderful artists throughout 2023 to bring large-scale mural pieces to various locations across Leeds. We’ve been catching up with the artists, in a new series that looks at working with communities, sustainability, and their working process in creating public art.
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Artist support
No Going Back: exploring the archives
Here are some of our favourite images from last month's No Going Back exhibition, for anyone who may have missed it.