Stockton-on-Tees

Community Projects

Collaborative creative work in public and community spaces, with room for people to participate, contribute and help shape what is made.

Featured project

Stockton Community Bus Stop Art

Joint / Collaborative

A growing programme of creative work in public bus-stop spaces across Stockton-on-Tees, involving community participation, painting and locally shaped artwork.

The broad programme is collaborative, bringing together The Wooly Wood Shop and Creative Chaos CIC. Individual project details can be published more precisely as each piece of work is documented.

Project gallery

Painting in the middle of everyday Stockton.

A first selection from the wider programme, showing both the painting process and artwork within the surrounding street.

Painted street-scene artwork covering the glass panels of a bus shelter in Stockton-on-Tees — A completed street-scene panel, using the shelter glass as part of the surrounding view.

A person painting black street-scene outlines directly onto a bus shelter glass panel — Painting the street-scene artwork directly onto the shelter glass.

A person adding paint to a street-scene mural on a bus shelter with the road visible behind — Artwork taking shape while the everyday street remains visible through the glass.

A person smiling through unpainted spaces in a partly painted white bus shelter design — A playful moment during the painting process.

A painted bus shelter seen from across the street with people standing nearby — The artwork viewed as part of the wider street rather than as an isolated canvas.

How projects can work

Different ways to make something together.

Public art

Creative work made for public and shared spaces, shaped around the place and the people using it.

Community engagement

Creative activity that gives local people ways to contribute ideas, take part and help shape shared work.

Participatory creative activity

Hands-on making and painting that invites people to join the creative process rather than only view the finished result.

Collaborative projects

Creative projects developed with organisations, venues, businesses and community groups where the brief calls for a shared approach.

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Interested in a collaborative creative project?

If you are exploring public art, community engagement or another collaborative creative project in Stockton-on-Tees, tell us what you are thinking about and we can work out the right route for the enquiry.

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