Stories

Scroll down to read the stories we've collected - or click here to view them by project and find out why we collected them.

With thanks to

The OFS editors: Renata Allen, Phil Brennan, Sarah Cassidy, Alex Coke, Darran Ijada, Naomi Joseph, Will Long, Justine Malone, Rowan Padmore, Sofia Smith-Laing.

The OFS transcribers: John Baron, Caitriona Dowden, Bethan Elford, Simon Garrood, Steve Hay, Emma Joynson, Isabella Lill, Rie Marsdon, Thomas Nicolaou, Ollie Ripley-Duggan, Kate Stewart, Katherine Thomlinson, Sarah Wilkinson.

The OFS Story collectors: Sarah Cassidy, Hannah Gallardo-Parsons, Simon Garrood, Steve Hay, Darran Ijada, Andrew Jones, Will Long, Justine Malone, Jak Soroka.

And above all else, the Storytellers.

This Place As A Sanctuary

It is extraordinary that my working life has gone full circle. Its mentoring artist’s practice but the thing about me is that I trained...

Giving Ourselves Bigger Challenges

‘Our Place’ was an open title to begin with – we wanted Crisis members to have an opportunity to change it if they preferred something...

It’s More About Nurturing

I worked as an artist mentor on Our Place. You rarely work in one to ones. There were other ideas and exchanges going on between the...

Getting My Label Back

I started as a zero-hour Front of House Assistant, so I was initially just front of house kind of working behind the bar, did some shop...

Everyone Gives And Receives

I ended up as one of the member artists taking part in Our Place. I began going to the art classes regularly and got a lot out of them....

Discovering Beauty In The Unseen

I came on board as the lead artist for the ‘Our Place’ project as it really appealed to me. I was invited for an interview. Crisis...