For my Gold Arts Award Arts Issue, I have chosen the topic 'Should Photography be Allowed to be Taken in Museums and Art Galleries?'. This is when you go on a visit to arts and heritage venue and photography is banned in an exhibition.

My ‘spotlight’ #twinterviews are with the “brilliant” #untitled10 currently exhibiting at The Bowes Museum. Kate Ive is an award-winning artist who sculpts and carves by hand on monumental and minute scales with an incredible eye for detail.

In 2018 The Bowes Centre ran an open call to select 10 artists from the N.E. as artists-in-residence responding to The Bowes Museum for the first time. They became the #untitled10 with a successful exhibition presenting diverse ideas inspired by the museum through photography, textiles, music, photography, furniture and jewellery design, neon light and dance. Dance has become one of the most transformative experiences at the museum. In this Q&A, Paula the Director of Talkin' Culture explores how and why.

Paula the Director at Talkin’ Culture is currently talking to emerging historic conservators to create a series of blog Q&As to understand more about the conditions to work with applied arts and craft.