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Jayne Murray

Jayne Murray

Our Lives, Our Stories with Carl Chinn vor 1 Monat

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Carl Chinn sits down in conversation with Jayne Murray, artist
and director of Place Prospectors, who went to Druids Heath in
2017 to run a small arts project and ended up holding the missing
history of an entire Birmingham estate. A resident had kept
carrier bags full of pamphlets, newsletters and posters from
decades of community activity. It took Jayne months just to put
it in chronological order. What emerged was a credit union set up
to beat the loan sharks, a green space saved by residents, a
neighbourhood action group that fought a housing transfer, and a
resident's essay from the late 1970s.

Jayne grew up in Lincoln and Sleaford, the daughter of a
Glaswegian father and a Lincoln mother, and she was making little
exhibitions out of museum postcards before she was eight. She
talks about the GCSE batik practical that told her what she
wanted to do with her life, the theory teacher at Derby who
taught her how to look at an image, the 1995 weekend she spent
teaching people the internet in a launderette with borrowed
computers and a washing powder sponsor, and her conviction that
art is not something you have to be good enough for.

Jayne is passionate about making art accessible and social
justice.

Jayne Murray (artist) -
https://www.instagram.com/jaynemurrayartist

Place Prospectors - https://prospectors.org.uk

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