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Getting the gallery ready

At Creative Lives we’re getting ready for the launch of our online gallery. The artists’ works-in-progress will be hosted for a year on our website from the 9th of September 2022. I’ve spent the last few weeks building new pages for our website. The multidisciplinary nature of the artwork produced has made this challenging, as…

Creative Lives Collaborations: Roots and Routes

Recently, we invited the artists involved in Creative Lives to come to Sheffield to talk about the progress of their projects and the collaborations that they have been undertaking. Following the prompts from Carmen Levick in May 2022 to respond to memory, trauma and/or age, the paths that the artists have taken are proving to…

Creative People

An important aspect of the work of the Creative Lives network is to collaborate as academics with artists and arts organisations in order to understand the impact of ageism. So we’re very excited to be working with 10 artists who are producing new work in response to workshops led by our Principal Investigator Dr Carmen…

Creative Collaborations

There’s exciting work going on in the Creative Lives network right now. Working with Castlefield Gallery, Dr Carmen Levick from the University of Sheffield has brought together a group of 10 artists who have been commissioned to create work related to the concepts of memory and trauma. The artists work in a range of media…

Creative Lives Survey

Are you a part of arts organisation or institution that works with people? Have you considered how ageing is incorporated into your policies, infrastructure and programmmes? Is it included when planning education and training opportunities? Have you found ways of engaging diverse and intersectional groups of artists with funding? Creative Lives network is undertaking a…

Launch of Creative Lives Report

We’ve done it! The launch of our report happened on Friday 21 May, with lots of interested people in attendance. We also awarded our first Creative Lives badge to the Castlefield Gallery for the inclusive, diverse and anti-ageism programmes like bOlder, that they support. You can download our report below. Join our network if you…


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