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Press & PR
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We tell stories about the work we curate and produce to an international audience through print and online media. The stories we tell introduce our projects, share artists work and often invite people to see places through a new lens. To realise press coverage we work collaboratively with PR experts.
Highlights
VINTAGE BY THE SEA FESTIVAL, CREATIVE TOURIST, 2022
‘Morecambe is renowned for being a hub of cultural happenings and this September the seaside town will once again be transported back to the 20th Century with Vintage by the Sea.’
SETTLE MURAL: YORKSHIRE DALES TEENS HELP DESIGN ARTWORK, BBC NEWS, 2021
‘A mural painted in a Yorkshire Dales village has been designed and created with a group of young people to show their connection to the area.’
NEW MORECAMBE MURAL INVITES PEOPLE TO ‘COME AND BE HAPPY AT MORECAMBE’, ABOUT MANCHESTER, 2021
‘A brand new mural has been commissioned on Sandylands Promenade by culture company Deco Publique.’
HEAVENLY ART, INTERIOR DESIGN, 2017
‘Liam Hopkins Fills an Abandoned Building With 26,000 Square Feet of Cardboard’
‘One designer. 8 printworkers. 26,000 square feet of cardboard. 4,500 cardboard pieces. 15 pods.’
THE FACTORY RESIDENCY, TRIBUNE, 2020
‘The Art in Manufacturing programme draws on a history of artists working in factories to bridge the gap between the workplaces and art in Britain's industrial towns.’
THE BEST RETRO AND VINTAGE EVENTS AROUND THE WORLD, THE GUARDIAN, 2014
‘The art deco Midland Hotel that curves along Morecambe’s seafront is the setting for this weekend’s Vintage by the Sea festival.’
THE VERY BID CATWALK, ITV NEWS, 2015
‘Liverpool celebrated the 4th of July by breaking the Guinness World Record for the Most Models on a Catwalk in its The Very Big Catwalk extravaganza.
The record-breaking spectacle, formed part of the city’s Transatlantic 175 celebrations to mark the 175th anniversary of the first transatlantic crossing.’
FESTIVAL OF MAKING, BBC1 BREAKFAST TV, 2017
Colin Paterson interviews artist Ruth Jones at Cherrytree Bakery, part of the Season One Art in Manufacturing commissions.
SETTLEMENT, CORRIDOR 8, 2018
I trekked up Birkrigg Common to visit Rob Mulholland’s installation ‘Settlement’ (2018). It’s the first of five temporary and permanent artworks commissioned by Morecambe Bay Partnership, in partnership with Deco Publique, for the Headlands to Headspace programme, an initiative aiming to celebrate the Bay’s unique heritage.
DESTINATION MORECAMBE COVERED BY DAVID GUEST, BBC NORTH WEST TONIGHT, 2022
‘A holiday destination for generations, but some who travelled across the globe to the Lancashire resort of Morecambe loved it so much they never left. Their stories are the subject of an exhibition at an iconic location in the town.’
MORECAMBE WAS NEVER A KISS-ME-QUICK PLACE - IT’S A PROPER SEASIDE RESORT, THE GUARDIAN, 2021
‘It celebrates the Wakes Week tradition of workers coming to the town for respite and recreation – but this artwork does so using art-deco fonts, nostalgic allusions and images of skaters and divers. That’s Morecambe’s shtick: retro, refined, somewhat romantic.’
HAVE YOU SPOTTED THE HUGE WHITE WORDS PAINTED AROUND BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN THIS WEEK?, LANCASHIRE TELEGRAPH, 2021
‘Hoping to be putting Covid-19 behind them, the people of Blackburn and Darwen have had 30 giant poem excerpts with messages of love, hope and faith, including 11 thought-provoking public submissions, installed across the two towns.’
SLOW RADIO: LAND ARTIST CHRIS DRURY’S Morecambe Bay PROJECT, BBC4 FRONT ROW, 2018
‘As the tide recedes, Stig brings us some 'slow radio' as he crosses the causeway and heads for Sunderland Point to meet the artist, as well as Andrew Mason, the Master Craftsman and noted dry stonewaller, as they work on the construction of the Horizon Line Chamber.’
The Making of a South Asian Wedding, LAUREN LAVERNE’S MEMORY TAPES, BBC Radio 6 MUSIC, 2018
‘Dawinder's Memory Tapes'
Dawinder shares the sounds of her childhood in the 1980's’.
MAKING NEW FUTURES: ART & COMMUNITY DURING A PANDEMIC, VERSO BOOKS, 2020
‘The founders of NFoM in Blackburn emphasised the central importance of mass participation to their project. Something that must now be urgently rethought, especially as the issues that the festival set out to address will not disappear from within the current crisis.‘
A SUBJECTIVE MIX, CREATIVE BOOM, 2018
‘A Subjective Mix by Liz West is a new work commissioned by Deco Publique and Super Slow Way for Art in Manufacturing, part of The National Festival of Making at The Cotton Exchange in Blackburn England on 12 and 13 May 2018’
VINTAGE BY THE SEA, STYLIST, 2017
‘Promising "a sensual delight" and "a big dressing-up box", this joyous creative event plays out on the evocative seafront of Morecambe.
Tens of thousands of vintage lovers descend here come September, to take in specially curated live performances and decade-specific hair and beauty makeovers’.
A BULLFIGHTER, SOPRANO SINGER AND ICE CREAM MAKER, CREATIVE BOOM, 2022
‘Morecambe might be one of Lancashire's most famous seaside towns, but did you know it also attracts a fascinating array of characters from around the world?’
FRIDAY’S BEST PHOTOS, THE GUARDIAN, 2021
‘A newly unveiled mural painted by Cobolt Collective brightens the Sandylands promenade in Morecambe. It was commissioned by locally based Deco Publique to highlight Morecambe’s role as a staycation destination.’
THE FACTORY RESIDENCY, TRIBUNE, 2020
‘The Art in Manufacturing programme draws on a history of artists working in factories to bridge the gap between the workplaces and art in Britain's industrial towns.’
TODAY IN PICTURES, THE STRAITS TIMES, 2019
‘Two women dressed in period outfits push vintage prams past the Art Deco-styled Midland Hotel during the Vintage By The Sea festival in Morecambe, north-west England on September 1, 2019.’
LANCASHIRE LIVING ROOMS: THE BACKDROP TO COTTAGE INDUSTRY REVOLUTION, THE GUARDIAN, 2017
‘In a small galley kitchen in a terraced house in Blackburn this week, a crack operation was under way. With the first ever National Festival of Making opening in the town on Saturday, Zainab Bilal had several hundred pies to cook – in between her day job as a teacher and taking care of her five children.’
8 GREAT CULTURAL FESTIVALS ACROSS THE UK THIS SUMMER, HOMES & ANTIQUES, 2018
‘Combine a trip to Morecambe’s Victorian promenade with a celebration of all things vintage at Vintage By The Sea. Pay tribute to timeless design from the 1920s through to 1990s, with live music, classic cars, a pop-up dance hall and old fairground rides.’
CHURCH OF RARE SOULS, BIG ISSUE NORTH, 2018
‘I am working with a range of manufacturers in Lancashire to create a new sound installation in the former Tony’s Empress Ballroom in Blackburn town centre, as part of the Art In Manufacturing residencies project. Artists can play the role of archivist and social historian in ways that engage people and fire the imagination.’
STREET PARTY, NEWSPAPER CLUB, 2016
Morecombe-based artist Kate Drummond recently hosted a free newspaper hat making workshop for Street pARTy, a celebration of local art and creativity. The event marked the installation of a series of new, large-scale artworks on Victoria Street in Morecambe Town Centre, including two murals that Drummond worked on alongside other artists: The Sands and the Seas Wall and A Morecambe Sporting Life.