We Create is a community-based arts action group, a creative, collaborative partnership between the School of Arts at the University of Gloucestershire and residents of St Peter’s and St Paul’s working together to share time, skills and resources to connect people and engage in everyday creativity. Read more

 

Since 2016, We Create have been devising and delivering projects with artists and community members. Most recently we worked on a community land-art project on St Paul’s Road that transformed a small plot of land for the benefit of pollinators. The plot has now been handed over to local beekeeper Nathan Wylam who is managing a couple of beehives on the site and coordinating events with and around the honeybees.

 

This project, Bees In Common, enabled us to observe the hive and bee colony as a dynamic expression of ecosystem building. From 15 March to 1 June 2025 we presented an exhibition at The Wilson Art Gallery & Museum in Cheltenham that re-imagined The Wilson as a hive and its galleries supporting cells of activity. In the community gallery we organised elements in an exhibition that reflected collective action and creative co-operation.

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Read about our lockdown project, the Mudlarking community newspaper here, and check out our community garden project, Field Fare here. We Create meets every few months to discuss current projects and make plans for future arts activity. If you live, work or study in St Peter’s or St Paul’s or you’re connected to the area, get in touch to see how you can get involved. Contact us