Your practice starts with people, not objects. You are drawn to relationships, communities, systems, inequality, care, activism and collective experience. Art for you is not just something to look at but something that happens between people, in public space, through participation, conversation, collaboration and shared action. You may feel most energised when your practice has a real world social impact.

Some of the most meaningful socially engaged practice happens entirely outside art school - in communities, activist spaces and public institutions. Art education can provide critical frameworks, but it can also remove you from the very contexts that matter most. The question is whether going to art school will ground or distance your practice.