Gresham Horse Project: Roundtable with artist, Isabel Lima

Gresham's Wooden Horse, sets off from mima to Gresham along Borough Road, artist Isabel Lima. 24/9/17 Michelle Maddison Photography michellemaddison@btopenworld.com 07798 724746

Gresham’s Wooden Horse, sets off from mima to Gresham along Borough Road, artist Isabel Lima.
Michelle Maddison Photography

Round table with Isabel Lima

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.

(Wednesday 23rd May 2018)