MA Inclusive Arts Practice
MA Inclusive Arts Practice
Exhibition 2023
This exhibition is a celebration of Inclusive Arts Practice. The students’ work encapsulates the creativity and openness that underpins the practice and recognises the importance of meaningfully engaging, co-developing knowledge and making art with groups and individuals that are marginalised by society.
The students’ artworks are their response to their arts-based research projects during which they explored their research questions and learned and unlearned through making, doing and reflecting with diverse groups, including parents, children, migrants, people with disabilities, learning difficulties, visual impairments and mental health issues. Their artworks encapsulate a conceptual, aesthetic and often personal creative response to the meaning-making that took place throughout the research process.
During their research projects students continued a 15-year tradition at the University of Brighton of offering opportunities for meaningful participation in the arts and working inclusively with marginalised groups, who often have limited access to higher education and cultural institutions. This year alone over 60 individuals directly benefitted from this engagement and in turn the students gained valuable insights from the creativity, inspiration and knowledge that their research participants generously shared with them.
As we celebrate this final cohort of Inclusive Arts Practice students we look to the future of the practice. As these 10 talented and innovative students graduate and continue to develop their practice with plans to set up projects and take on roles in existing organisations or further their studies and research, they join a long line of alumni who continue this important and inspirational work.
Thank you to everyone who has made this exhibition possible and contributed to the projects and taught sessions that have supported the students throughout their studies, and thank you to everyone who has supported the course throughout its 15-year history and helped to build a community of practice that will undoubtedly continue for many years to come.
Dr Jayne Lloyd, Course Leader MA Inclusive Arts Practice