Am pleased to say that I have got a place on the artists’ mentoring programme with Conditions, based in Croydon South London. I’ve been following the alternative art education scene for some time, it is a vital resource when conventional art education is becoming so expensive in the UK, and also a key site where art education and practice is being rethought. The course is mainly online but includes artist talks at their shopfront space in the Whitgift Centre. Which is doubly resonant to me - like coming back around a circle - as it was where we used to hang out as young teenagers when just built - one of the first (and pretty unsuccessful) shopping malls.