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Image credit: Michelle Maddison: Gresham’s Wooden Horse

Gresham Horse Project: Roundtable with artist, Isabel Lima

Gresham area, Middlesborough 23 May 2018

Lima’s Gresham’s Wooden Horse, is set in the Gresham area of Middlesborough in a diverse community that has experienced a stalled re-generation of the housing scheme.

Through a series of workshops led by Lima and her collaborators (including the artists TILT), and a group of local people, Gresham residents crafted a giant wooden horse. This site-specific and co-producing methodology offers a vehicle for residents of Gresham, both old and new, to establish a sense of ownership of their neighbourhood – enabling the collective process of re-imagining the area’s identity via informal cultural exchange and skills sharing.