Each Skills Exchange project was based on an extended artistic residency in a space of elderly care, through which participants were invited to engage with the creative process to challenge stereotypes and social norms.
Collaborations between artists, designers and community groups including Abake, Markus Miessen and Westmead Care Home; Barby Asante and InSpire Southwark; Marcus Coates, Alex H and St. John’s Hopsice; Tom Hunter, Woodberry Down Estate Tea and Coffee Group and Age UK and Beatrice Gibson and Camden Homes for Older People.
Beyond providing a service for the role of the care sector, the contributors argue that art has a role to play in challenging the marginalisation of the aged, while ageing provokes fundamental questions to the field of art.
