“The people of Teesside are down to earth, friendly with a strong sense of community spirit and I’m immensely proud of my Middlesbrough roots.” Teesside-born artist Julie Foster Walker might not live in the Tees area anymore but she is very proud of her Teesside...
Chloe Tempestoso
Philip Meadows: a Teesside artist’s story
"All the things that I grew up with are disappearing and I wanted to capture the way it was..." Philip Meadows is a local Teesside artist based in Middlesbrough who focuses his painting on his childhood memories growing up in Middlesbrough in the 1960s. Chloe...
The truth about child poverty across the Tees
This week we saw the government vote against extending free school meals into the school holidays for children from the highest poverty families across the UK. As a country, since March, many families have faced hardship with the loss of jobs as we went into a...