We’re taking art and creativity on the road, across the UK.
From May 2024 to May 2025, our travelling art studio programme, Art Road Trip, is visiting 18 places across the UK.
We’re going to be working with 24 local arts organisations to create community-led arts projects. In each location, we’re designing events for people with the least access to creative opportunities and the arts.
Over the year, our mobile art studio will host around two hundred public events and work with thousands of people to bring art and ideas inspired by the National Gallery Collection right to where they live.
Where is the Art Road Trip now?
Freshly Greated
14 – 25 January 2025
Great Yarmouth
Art Road Trip starts the New Year in Great Yarmouth with Freshly Greated. Freshly Greated works with local people to create fun, exciting, and creative experiences in and around Great Yarmouth. Their approach is collaborative and enables people to lead and influence creative activity for their communities to enjoy. With over 100 volunteer resident producers who meet monthly to actively contribute to developing their programme making sure activities are relevant, fun and reach an audience that do not usually engage. Freshly Greated’s mission is to work collaboratively across the region to maximise local knowledge, talent and skills, thereby strengthening the creative offer in all aspects of community life.
During our two-week programme together, Art Road Trip we're connecting with Freshly Greated’s annual event 'Glow Your Own Way'—a festival of light and sound that sparks joy and boosts mental wellbeing in the town. Deliberately themed around wellbeing and mental health, the festival takes place on the weekend directly after what is commonly referred to as ‘Blue Monday’ in January. The 'Art Road Trip' team are delivering a series of engaging workshops and community events, connecting local residents with reflective practices and encouraging mindfulness through art. Using the National Gallery Collection as a powerful tool to inspire creativity, the programme will focus on supporting emotional resilience and mental wellness.
Designed to engage local families, young people, and vulnerable members of the community, the events will include hands-on art-making and collaborative projects that encourage participants to explore personal and shared experiences through art. These activities aim to foster a deeper sense of connection, relaxation, and joy while providing accessible entry points to the Collection. By working together with Freshly Greated, 'Art Road Trip' contributes to a wider vision of using creativity as a catalyst for social cohesion, mental health support, and long-term community empowerment.
