Common Good
2024 - ongoing
Unknown knowns more known, known unknowns nearly known, less un-knowing embraced, not knowing held with a yet, a getting to know and new knowing now known..
Common Good is a collaboration with Soraya Smithson, groups of rurally based artists/curators and unique settings.
Formed around an intense 48 hour residential, it takes play and unknowing as its theme and encourages site-specific responses that are informed by a catalysing text shared beforehand.
Common Good supports “isolated” [those who face barriers due to a lack of cultural and public infrastructure, access needs and injustice] artists and curators to reflect on ways of working, explore unfamiliar materials and context, challenge habits, look closely, collaborate, learn about self and place, step away from life, recoup, make new work, socialise, eat good food cooked collectively, share skills and experiences. All wrapped up with a pop up exhibition, that sometimes opens to the public.
We promote the use of surplas, recycled, found or sustainable materials in the production of artworks.
Uffington Village Hall. May 2024:
Text: Some questions without answers: Lavina Greenlaw
Andrew Bracey, Laura Mabbutt, Steve Pool, David Gilbert, Jayne Cooper, Tiffany Arntson, Sue Baker.
Funders: Uffington Village Hall and St Hughs Foundation
Rural Arts. Thirsk. July 2024
Text : On Unknowing: Emily Ogden
Ian Read, Martha Cattrel, Joel Hague, Harry Martin, Gaynor, G at Bordello Collective, Rachel Rimmel, Amy Foster, Sally Smith, Debbie Todd.
Funders: Rural Arts, Arts Council England
Queen Street Studios. Louth. June 2025
Text: Limbo – Dan Fox
Jayne Cooper, Tiffany Arntson, Joane Cifre-Cerda, Andrew Bracey
Casewick. Lincolnshire. January 2026
Text: Solid Objects – Virginia Woolf
Tim Neal, Steve Pool, Joane Cifre-Cerda, Nick Simpson, Jayne Cooper, Tiffany Arntson, Sue Baker.
Two Queens, Leicester – February 2026
Text: A review from Forms of Enchantment – Marina Warner
Jack Neal, Tom Robinson, Amanda Rigby, Dionne Ruffy, Tim Neal, Tiffany Arntson, Sue Baker.
