Since 2013
Highly-engaging and socially-useful arts
LeftCoast delivers highly-engaging and socially-useful arts and cultural projects in Blackpool. Since 2013, we have been co-producing ambitious and transformative experiences with neighbourhood communities across the town.
Our story
A route to genuine transformation
LeftCoast facilitates the connections between socially-engaged artists and Blackpool residents. In our experience, there’s an alchemy that happens when an artist and a community become enchanted with each other and mutual, creative possibilities emerge. This relationship, and the making that happens at the heart of it, can be a route to genuine transformation in peoples’ lives.
Our Latest Project
Field of Dreams with Ivan Morison and Heather Peak
Latest Project
Mereside's Meadow
During 2026, we will be working with artists Ivan Morison and Heather Peak on a new long-term project in Mereside – starting with the planting of a wildflower meadow that will evolve into a large-scale artwork.
The Field of Dreams will explore processes of growing, gathering, and collective making, bringing together ideas of ecology, civic space, and material transformation. The meadow itself is both site and medium, supporting biodiversity and soil regeneration, while also producing materials that will later be harvested and shaped into structures built with the community.
“This is a social artwork… It treats the act of growing as part of the artwork itself. The process is public, slow, and visible.” – Ivan Morison
With thanks to our main funders Arts Council England and The National Lottery Community Fund.
