RAKE Community is an autonomous platform for practitioners to develop research-based visual enquiries. It aims to build a framework for socially and politically driven projects while promoting accessible exchange outside of traditional routes or institutions.

 

2020 // 2021

 

If you are interested in taking over the community Instagram page, please email us at info@rakecollective.com.

This is @stuartleech signing off from my takeover. I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my work and exploring some of the themes and research behind it. #RAKE #RAKECommunity #RAKECollective #Community #VisualResearch #Investigation #IGTakeover #Instagr
#RAKE #RAKECommunity #RAKECollective #Community #VisualResearch #Investigation #IGTakeover #InstagramTakeover #RAKECommunityTakeover #InstaTakeover
A BBC journalist based in Kent uses his twitter account to post regular updates about arrivals of refugees and asylum seekers on the UK coast. He offers no perspective, alternative viewpoints or exploration of the reasons behind the arrivals. This t
Sharing more images from my project Canto. #RAKE #RAKECommunity #RAKECollective #Community #VisualResearch #Investigation #IGTakeover #InstagramTakeover #RAKECommunityTakeover #InstaTakeover
This is @stuartleech continuing my takeover with some more images from my project Canto. #RAKE #RAKECommunity #RAKECollective #Community #VisualResearch #Investigation #IGTakeover #InstagramTakeover #RAKECommunityTakeover #InstaTakeover
Since the 1960s successive Labour and Conservative governments have created layers of complexity to our immigration and asylum laws while promising to reduce the levels of immigration. The text here is taken from winning party manifestos from the 196
“I kept thinking of Margaret Thatcher’s talk of Britain being ‘swamped by alien cultures’ and Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech. The idea of rivers and flowing waters, the flow that folds back upon itself. The coloni
This is @stuartleech continuing my takeover with some more images from my project Canto. #RAKE #RAKECommunity #RAKECollective #Community #VisualResearch #Investigation #IGTakeover #InstagramTakeover #RAKECommunityTakeover #InstaTakeover
This is @stuartleech continuing my takeover. “The aim is to create, here in Britain, a really hostile environment for illegal immigrants.” - Theresa May, 2012 I have collected over 800 front-page headlines from British newspapers over th
This is @stuartleech continuing my takeover - The title of this work, Canto comes from Common Brittonic (an old Celtic language) and means ‘a circumference, a boundary’ or ‘a division, a share of land’ and is where Kent gets i
“Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the policeman. He could live where he liked and as he liked. He had no official number or ide
Hello I’m @stuartleech taking over the Instagram this week. I’m an artist currently based in Margate, UK. I’m interested in exploring political and societal issues. Canto explores the East Kent border of the UK, the closest coas