Grow Your Own Creativity Project
We’re proud to have delivered a programme of high quality participatory arts activities, inspired by nature, green spaces and horticulture during 2023-24. As the project was an arts engagement project with Creative Darlington, the activities and exhibits were situated in various community spaces and venues across Darlington including a former shop space on the high street. The project involved creating a series of pop-up spaces and installations where people could get creative and be inspired by paper art works. In doing this we hoped to spark a series of creative conversations about nature inspired art and design and the green cultural heritage of Darlington. The decision to exhibit work in public engagement spaces and on the high street opened up unique dialogues with audiences to engage with the arts in non-traditional spaces using unusual art techniques, such as origami, paper pop-ups, monkiri and tunnel books, to show the transformative power of paper. Two of the pop-up installa
