by TLloyd | Feb 19, 2024 | Writing
Ad Free Zone Image: They Live (1988) John Carpenter Art Network North East asked me to write an article, responding to a ‘cultural placemaking’ brief. My proposal would be to remove all advertising from a designated zone in the city and replace it with artworks and...
by TLloyd | Aug 30, 2023 | Writing
Time or money? The potential of participatory arts practice to challenge complex societal problems and imagine alternative futures This is the thesis I wrote for my practice-based PhD. It was undertaken in the Fine Art Department at Newcastle University (2017 –...
by TLloyd | Nov 22, 2022 | Writing
In 2021, I wrote a blog for the UBI Lab Network using Bill Drummond’s No Music Day project to frame an argument for Basic Income. You can read the article here. In 2022 I contacted Bill to let him know about the article. The next day he has added it to his website as...
by TLloyd | Mar 8, 2022 | Writing
How could we do things differently? This article was written during the first UK lockdown in 2020 as a way to think about how the experience had changed our perceptions. At the time there was a lot of talk about learning from the pandemic and building back better. It...
by TLloyd | Sep 21, 2020 | Writing
UBI and Creativity We’re all creative. If you don’t think you are, it’s probably because you haven’t had the chance to explore your ideas beyond daydreaming. The creative process takes time, space and energy. Trial-and-error is necessary to discover anything...