I haven’t blogged for 2 weeks. It’s been hectic as hell getting everything ready for our official opening tomorrow: Thursday March 28th 6 till 8pm come help us celebrate all we have achieved.

The journey begins. Carmen tells of her first day hosting our gallery. In this glorious pic Carmen looks like an Egyptian princess who has climbed out of her display cabinet to read about herself on our wall. Pic Karen Rangeley last Thursday when we first saw our fabulous space

I talk about the Reno in the most prestigious arts institution in the UK unaware that our Facebook group is on fire with rape accusations.

What conversation would I have if I didn't talk about race? Been running round and round in my head. Then an answer. All the Excavating the Reno FB Group posts about bad shit done to black people has finally driven someone over the edge. Accusations of white privilege done did for Maxine. Thank God we…

Jeff Bassey's brilliant concept is to cut the youth out of the original Reno collage. And replace them with us now. In this video we're looking for the right pose. With our wonderful photographer Karen Rangeley, AKA Rude Gal. And Mr Lloyd who shoots all these videos. They have been so wonderful to us.…

I'm gonna open with Colin Horniman's comment on my last blog: Harvesting Moss Side. When I say the guy nailed it. 'The white middle-classes are a species of their own! No wonder you are angry. They cannot conceive of anybody who is different from them. They patronise 'others' on a mass scale and can't…

9 are at the table. One says: ‘I have a strong spiritual side, leadership, respect.’ They are deciding how they are going to harvest Moss Side. There are 9 of them at the table. They are all fairly hippy. One has blonde locks. They’ve all got style. They aren’t stinky like the old version of hippies.…

I Am A Man, Sanitation workers assemble outside Clayborn Temple, Memphis, TN, 1968. © Ernest C. Withers. Courtesy Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA. Printed in the Smithsonian Magazine. #excavatingthereno #therenolive

You know when I knew I'd truly done a great thing producing the Reno memoirs, excavation, celebration, backfill, when my daughter @Rachel Lawrence said minutes before this photo in the The Whitworth colonisation on 23rd of November 2017 'You've smashed it mum.' I look overjoyed. I'm all about legacy.…

In 2015 the collective consciousness of Moss side believed they could not achieve anything, that all avenues were closed to them. I’m sticking my neck out here, but maybe the average Reno person had a inkling of shame associated with going down there, fostered by the collective societal consciousness…