About

 

Creative Writing is a platform for writing, thinking and conversation about art.

Creative Writing approaches writing about art as a creative practice in its own right. Rather than limiting the response to description or evaluation, the platform is interested in what an encounter with an artwork can generate: questions, associations, memories, disagreements, ideas and new ways of seeing.

Creative Writing engages with art through several ongoing formats. Re:Views offer critical and creative responses to performances and artworks, ranging from criticism and essays to personal and experimental writing. Spotlight focuses on artists and their practices, offering a closer look at the people and ideas shaping the field. Creative Talking, coming soon, extends this practice into filmed conversations with artists about their work, processes and ideas.

Creative Writing also collaborates with festivals, artists and cultural organizations to develop projects around specific works, programs and events. These collaborations take different forms, including commissioned artistic responses, editorial processes, workshops, publications, conversations and live events.

Across these different formats, Creative Writing seeks to create space for engaged, curious and expansive discourse around art.

*Creative Writing projects are produced with the assistance of the Lottery Council for Culture and Art.