The Thinking Eye is excited to collaborate on a community-led action research project at Dulwich Picture Gallery, which aims to discover new ways for Old Master paintings to connect and speak to contemporary society. The project seeks to build connections with audiences by training the local community in paid researcher roles and working with them to run research sessions to better understand and amplify local, diverse voices. The Thinking Eye will train the community researchers in the VTS facilitation techniques so that they can use VTS in their community engagement activities. The research findings will be used to develop a series of commissions to put the findings into action, presenting new insights into key themes that have been unexplored in the permanent collection of Dulwich Picture Gallery.

The project is lead by Shortwork and funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.