A Southwark walk with Barbera Steveni

Barbara's walk takes us to Southwark Town hall as she talks about her lifes work and recalls the APG commissioned work with John McTernan who was Director of Political Operations and the strategy of injecting change into Southwarks educational policy.

Barbara Steveni founded the Artists Placement Group 1966 together her husband John Latham. Its purpose was to place artists in government, commercial and industrial organisations.

APG emerged from the idea that artists are a human resource underused by society. Artists are isolated from the public by the gallery system, and in the ghetto of the art world are shielded from the mundane realities of industry, commerce and government.

The idea was that artists, designated Incidental Persons by Latham, would bring completely alternative ways of seeing and thinking to bear on the organisations they were placed in.

APG would thus recognise the artist's outsider status and turn it to positive social advantage.

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