Videos
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Reflections on a Big Journey
Two members of the Big Art Project selection panel, Gus Casely-Hayford and Peter Jenkinson, talk about the complex, moving and inspiring stories that the project set in motion.

Big Possibilities
Big Art Project selectors Gus Casely-Hayford and Peter Jenkinson discuss what they feel will be the project's most significant legacy: an increased awareness of what is possible when a community engages with an artist – and vice versa.

Burnley's Beating Art
Two teams of young people from the Big Art Project in Burnley made trails for the series. They wrote the scripts, filmed them and cut their trails in a London post-production house. This is the girls' trail.

Trailers and Tribulations
A trail made by boys from the Burnley Big Art project team (see above).

Land Art
Rosie Leventon talks about her works Two Sculptures for a Forest, in Kingswood, Kent.

The Singing Lighthouse
Commissioned for a season of site-specific works across Cumbria, sound artist Ailis Ni Riain composed an electro-acoustic piece for the disused 200 year-old cast iron Lighthouse on Maryport Harbour.

Out and About
Mark Titchner talks about how he employs aspects of media and advertising in the presentation of his art, such as his use of posters, billboards and bluetooth in some recent public projects.

Right Said Fred
Steve Messam, artist and director of Fold, an artist-run organisation in rural Cumbria, talks about the importance of communicating with and learning from the local community when planning site-specific public artworks.

The Tintagel Trail
Join artist Michael Fairfax on a tour of a public art project he led in Tintagel, Cornwall.

The Art in Me
Comedian, actor and ceramic artist: Johnny Vegas talks passionately about art, life and coming from St.Helens.

The Commissioner
How do artists get selected for public commissions? Maggie Bolt, Director of Public Art South West, talks about what art in the public realm means to her.

Art Movements
Taro Chiezo's Superlambanana tours the 2008 city of culture, whilst Richard Wilson's cut section of wall slowly revolves on a derelict building in Liverpool.

St.Helens
Former St.Helens miners re-visit the land where their colliery used to be. Features a poetry reading by Johnny Vegas.

Burnley
The young people of Burnley talk about their hopes and aspirations for a town trying to pull together its diverse community.

Sheffield
Sheffield residents talk about what the iconic disused Cooling Towers mean to them and what they would like them to be used for. Features The Long Blondes.