Projects

Learn more about our ongoing projects

Newcastle Common

Newcastle Common  Appetite Newcastle Common ran from 2021 to 2024, this project focused reimagining empty shops to the home of art and creativity for the people who use the town centre and bringing artists into Newcastle-under-Lyme town centre through all sorts both in-shop and on the street. We took an action research approach to create a…
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A large crowd of people are sitting on benches outside an angular building - The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. Two rows of spectators form a square with two outer walls of the building. In the square space in the centre is a low stage. Circus performers wearing everyday clothes are supporting and clambering over a criss-cross structure made of long lengths of bamboo.

The Big Feast

THE BIG FEAST A joyous love letter to Stoke-on-Trent and its people … Appetite launched The Big Feast – a festival-style event in Stoke-on-Trent City Centre (Hanley) – in 2014 as a free, outdoor event where art and artists pop up in streets, buildings and underused spaces of the city…
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A Canalside Arcana

We asked the people of Etruria how they felt about where they live … Appetite were appointed creative producers by Canal & River Trust – who were awarded funding by the Stoke-on-Trent UK Shared Prosperity Fund – to deliver what has become A Canalside Arcana in the Etruria area. The…
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Image shows one of the wingwalls of Mill Bridge in Middleport painted with a bright mural in primary colours. The ground is frosty and a cyclist stops to admire the painting.

Projects in Middleport

Appetite and Middleport Matters Appetite and Middleport Matters are working together to bring more arts and cultural experiences to the Middleport area. We want to give Middleport residents more chances to get involved, have a go and try something new.  Read on for details of the projects delivered as part…
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Imagine Bamboo

Appetite & Imagine Bamboo Bridge2Bamboo R&D 2020 – 22 A collaboration with Imagineer and independent artistic director, Orit Azaz, that began 2 years ago, as part of Imagineer’s Bridge project. In Summer 2020, Appetite hosted a Bridge Kit, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s design for a self supporting bridge. In…
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A colourful illustrated map of the businesses in Kidsgrove town centre.

This is Kidsgrove

Appetite have been working with GoKidsgrove and Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council to deliver This is Kidsgrove! We invited the businesses and employees of Kidsgrove to share a photograph of their local business and their staff to be transformed into an illustration by Lauren Ward of Nova & Me. The illustrations will…
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