Wastelands – Provocations in Green Spaces

A series of artist commissions exploring how lockdown reshaped our relationships with local green spaces across Stoke-on-Trent — turning wastelands into places of imagination and possibility.

Artist Development, Public Art, Research & Development, 2020Jenny Harper11 November 2025Film, Public Art, Placemaking, Research, Artist Development, Climate, Wellbeing, Urban Parks, Brownfield Land, Nature Reserve, Commons, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

Youth-Led Canal-Side Transformation at Tinsley Marina, Sheffield

Youth-led canal-side transformation at Tinsley Marina, Sheffield — shaping place, confidence and connection through creative action.

2019, Collaboration, Public Art, Research & DevelopmentJenny Harper11 November 2025Sculpture, Public Art, Installation, Regeneration, Placemaking, Young People, Disabled, Youth Voice, Safety, Sustainability, Wellbeing, Canal, Commons, Sheffield

Playing Out – Positive Community Action in Un-Safe Spaces

A community-led project empowering families and young people to reclaim public parks for play, creativity and connection through collaboration and trust.

Shipwreck – Co-Created Public Sculpture, Forest Worlds Festival

A co-created wooden vessel rising from the earth — a public art sculpture made with young people and artist David Bethell for the Forest Worlds Festival 2019.