Arts&Heritage

Arts&Heritage Arts and Heritage The company has extensive experience of talking to heritage organisations about sites and their historical context.

Arts&Heritage develop contemporary art and culture projects and commissions that resonate with context and history, working with a range of museum, heritage and non arts organisations. Much of their work involves collaborating with organisations to bring alive narratives, architecture and history, demonstrating how the contemporary arts can bring a new perspective to heritage settings.Past events,

exhibitions and installations have included: The Great Boxing Booth Revival - a Cultural Olympiad event, ExtraOrdinary Measures at Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens, Picture House at Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens Fasion at Belsay at Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens

📢 Launching today the A&H Freelance Associate Network, a new model for collective, sustainable public work! 📢The arts an...
09/02/2026

📢 Launching today the A&H Freelance Associate Network, a new model for collective, sustainable public work! 📢

The arts and heritage sector is changing — fast. Funding structures, institutional models, and ways of working now rarely provide the level of support needed to create ambitious collaborative work, and don't provide a space for retaining the knowledge and archiving work. Increasingly, it is freelance producers, curators, and cultural workers who hold the knowledge, relationships, and creative leadership that make meaningful projects possible, whilst the current reality is that we are all experiencing the most precarious working conditions.

At Arts&Heritage, this shift is lived rather than theoretical. Following the loss of NPO funding several years ago, A&H has become a fully freelance-staffed organisation. Rather than stepping back, we have used this moment to rethink how we work — and how we can better support the people, collaborators and partners who are shaping the future of arts and heritage engagement.

We are pleased to announce the launch of the A&H Freelance Associate Network: a new operating model designed to support freelancers to develop and deliver ambitious, values-led public engagement work with stability, collaboration, and shared infrastructure embedded.

Find out all about it on our website 👉 just head over to the link in our bio!

As our festive offering this year, we are sharing our most recent work in partnership with Birmingham Cathedral, support...
19/12/2025

As our festive offering this year, we are sharing our most recent work in partnership with Birmingham Cathedral, supporting the creation of their new contemporary commission, a Nativity Set by artist Melanie Tomlinson.⁠ ⁠
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Melanie is a socially engaged, mixed-media practitioner from Birmingham. The work weaves together the traditional story of Christmas, the heritage of Birmingham, the stories of the cathedral community and the needs of the world during a difficult time for many. ⁠
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In Birmingham's hyper-diverse city, they wanted all visitors to be able to see themselves represented in the commissioned artwork, and an artwork which reflects Birmingham and the West Midlands traditions of industry, craft and manufacture. The New Nativity celebrates the stories of the Cathedral Community, bearing witness to global events and bringing marginalised voices to its centre. ⁠
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You can find out more on our website, head over: https://www.artsandheritage.org.uk/2025/12/18/nativity-set-at-birmingham-cathedral-open-for-advent/

Congratulations on being awarded 2025 Artist Award for Composition. We loved working with Hanna on ‘the bird that neve...
14/11/2025

Congratulations on being awarded 2025 Artist Award for Composition.

We loved working with Hanna on ‘the bird that never flew’ with and Glasgow Cathedral.

A&H team is delighted for you xx



Image: Hanna Tuulikk: ‘the bird that never flew’, 2023 @ photo credit Laurence Winram

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08/09/2025

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15/07/2025

Would you like a starring role in new Berwick-based exhibition inspired by the crowning of the Tweed Salmon Queen?

We’re working with Arts&Heritage and talented artist Lucy Wright on a brand new art installation that will honour Berwick’s working-class heritage by crowning Kings and Queens of industry and local community.

We want to hear your thoughts about who and what makes Berwick unique and special. Your responses will help create a new artwork capturing Berwick’s unique qualities: including its heritage, people, topography and environment.

Find out more by clicking the link in the comments, and don’t forget to share your nominations for Berwick royalty!

Berwick-upon-Tweed Town Council | Visit Berwick-upon-Tweed | Northumberland County Council | North East Combined Authority

Midsummer Meadows GatheringSaturday 21 June, 2-6pmBartonsham MeadowsOne week to go!Join us to mark the longest day of th...
14/06/2025

Midsummer Meadows Gathering
Saturday 21 June, 2-6pm
Bartonsham Meadows

One week to go!

Join us to mark the longest day of the year with artist and to celebrate and explore the beautiful Bartonsham Meadows through art and creativity.

This is a community gathering and an opportunity to learn, share, create, and discover how you can get involved in nature restoration just ten minutes walk from Hereford city centre.

Bring a picnic or enjoy cake and refreshments available on sites.

Free stalls and hands-on activities suitable for all ages.

Come and explore this unique wild landscape and learn more about its exciting future plans.

Art installation including flags and unique seating developed through the project and workshops with community groups will be on display.

We look forward to welcoming you to this special gathering.

The Common Lands commission is an Arts&Heritage partnership with Herefordshire Wildlife Trust, responding to HWT’s restoration of Bartonsham Meadows to healthy, wildlife-rich flood plain meadows. The art project is being kindly supported by Hereford College of Arts and funded through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, Elmley Foundation and Hereford City Council. HWT’s restoration of Bartonsham Meadows is supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund

A wonderful day previewing , curated by our very own . It’s beautiful and moving and poetic and totally of Liverpool an...
05/06/2025

A wonderful day previewing , curated by our very own . It’s beautiful and moving and poetic and totally of Liverpool and we couldn’t be prouder

Launched in August 2023 ‘Networking international and transnational approaches to contemporary art in heritage practice’...
05/06/2025

Launched in August 2023 ‘Networking international and transnational approaches to contemporary art in heritage practice’ was an 18-month research project which aimed to initiate a new international network bringing together UK and overseas academics, curators, artists, heritage organisations, and museum sites to exchange and explore transnational understandings of contemporary art in heritage practice.⁠
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Insights and outcomes from the pilot research are now available to read in a Project Report, which you can view and download online here: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/transnationalartinheritagenetwork/
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The project was led by researchers at Newcastle University and was delivered in partnership with Arts&Heritage alongside National Trust, The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, and The Artist’s Studio Museum Network.⁠
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The project was funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under its International Research Networking Scheme.

Join us this week for Open the Box: An Essex Record Office Pop-up!The Essex Record Office () will be bringing an array o...
02/06/2025

Join us this week for
Open the Box: An Essex Record Office Pop-up!

The Essex Record Office () will be bringing an array of historical records to explore at your local library. Listen to cassette tapes of genuine historical recordings, from radio broadcasts to folk music, and explore our handling collection. We will have activity sheets available for families, so come and say hello!

Saturday 31 May, 11am – 2pm
Canvey Island Library
2 High St, Canvey Island SS8 7RB

Wednesday 4 June, 10am-12pm
Greenstead Library
Hawthorn Ave, Colchester CO4 3QE

Tuesday 10 June, 11am-1pm
Harlow Library
The High, Harlow CM20 1HA

Tuesday 17 June, 4-6pm
Billericay Library
143 High St, Billericay CM12 9AB

The Outhouse 45 th Birthday Garden Party
Saturday 14 June, The Minories, Colchester
We will be joining the celebrations with The Outhouse community on Saturday 14 June at The Minories. Come and chat to us about our plans for archiving Essex LGBTQ+ heritage, and share your community memories.

Essex Pride
Saturday 21 June, Central Park, Chelmsford
Essex Record Office will have a stall at Essex Pride to share LGBTQ+ stories in our
collections and invite you to document spaces of belonging for the q***r community in Essex.

Ask us questions, find out how we can help you with
historical research, and let us know what kinds of activities you would like to see from us
next.

We are delighted to be part of Create Place - a new programme supporting leaders involved in the next phase of heritage-...
29/05/2025

We are delighted to be part of Create Place - a new programme supporting leaders involved in the next phase of heritage-led regeneration.

The programme will involve executive-leadership training, roundtable challenges and 1:1 coaching to develop knowledge and provide new skills.

-Are you passionate about your region and how heritage sites and organisations can transform the lives of those communities around you?

-Are you leading heritage or cultural activities and have more than 2 years of experience?

-Are you part of a heritage organisation, a history and heritage society, a heritage trust, or aspiring to shift your cultural or creative work into one that draws more deeply from the rich history of the place?

-Do you feel heritage is a driver for placemaking and digital tools might help you have more impact in your heritage work?

-Are you working in the library or heritage sector with aspirations to lead on projects involving history, arts and digital

If any of the above fit your career aspirations and visions for your place, this programme might be for you!

You can find out more and how to apply via the link in our bio.

A&H are pleased to introduce our newest Board member. Welcome Marcus Crofton!Marcus is an Arts Communications Consultant...
28/04/2025

A&H are pleased to introduce our newest Board member. Welcome Marcus Crofton!

Marcus is an Arts Communications Consultant with a commercial gallery, museum, non-profit and PR agency background. He is formerly Head of Press & Marketing at Waddington Custot gallery and spent seven years running the communications for the Contemporary Art Society, an organisation that supports the acquisition of art and craft for museums around the UK. In addition he has run press campaigns for organisations including the British Museum, National Museum of Scotland and London Art Fair. In 2024 he completed the Executive Leadership Programme at the SaĂŻd Business School, University of Oxford.

‘The Sh*tshow’ by artist Ellie Hoskins - - is an animated series of “episodes” in which a disgruntled fly on the wall c...
24/02/2025

‘The Sh*tshow’ by artist Ellie Hoskins - - is an animated series of “episodes” in which a disgruntled fly on the wall comes to life and berates the girl it’s been observing. It’s the next film we are featuring on our Screening Room.

Originally commissioned by Signal Film and Media (Barrow-in-Furness) as part of their TIDAL series, the films’ over-arching narrative explores the character’s everyday domestic habits and her inability to go out into and enjoy nature.

Enjoy watching it and let us know what you think; visit our Screening Room via the link in our bio.

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