About NINE RED Presents… (CIC)
NINE RED Presents… (CIC) is a Queen’s Award-winning creative organisation shaped through art, poetry, sound, healing practice and community-rooted transformation.
Incorporated on 22 September 2006, NINE RED Presents has developed a wide and distinctive body of work across visual art, spoken word, wellbeing, public engagement, cultural storytelling and creative production.
This page brings together the wider NINE RED story for visitors arriving through Art Medicine, while also helping you explore the connected platforms, projects and pathways that make up the organisation’s living ecosystem.
Recognition and reach
In 2016, NINE RED Presents received the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, recognising the depth of its contribution to communities through long-term creative and socially engaged practice.
Across its different platforms, the organisation brings together creativity, care, heritage, voice, healing and public imagination in ways that honour both personal journeys and collective cultural life.
View recognition and projectsOne vision, expressed in different ways
NINE RED Presents is not one narrow project. It is a creative organisation with several interconnected expressions, each speaking to a different aspect of human experience while remaining part of one wider purpose.
Art and transformation
Through installations, exhibitions, design, events, performance and place-based work, NINE RED uses creativity to reshape spaces, open conversations and make meaning visible.
Visit studio pageHealing and reflection
Through Art Medicine and related pathways, the organisation creates space for wellbeing, reflection, recovery, ritual, expression and personal transformation.
Visit what we doWords and cultural voice
Through Words Chose Me and wider literary work, poetry, storytelling, workshops and artists’ voices become part of a larger cultural conversation about identity, memory and belonging.
Visit poetry siteThink Art. Think Therapy. Think NINE RED.
This phrase offers a clear way into the organisation’s ethos. It speaks to the belief that creativity, healing, public engagement and cultural expression do not have to be separated from one another. Instead, NINE RED Presents holds them together as a connected practice, where art can support wellbeing, storytelling can build community, and cultural work can become a force for dignity, growth and change.
The wider NINE RED ecosystem
Visitors often arrive through one part of the organisation and then discover a wider network. These connected pathways help show how the work expands across creative services, poetry, healing, public projects and community-centred practice.
Art Medicine
A healing-centred space exploring creativity, wellbeing, reflective practice and transformation through art, sound, ritual and care.
Words Chose Me
A poetry-led and community-rooted platform centred on writing, language, artists’ profiles, reading culture and the power of words in public and personal life.
NINE RED Presents… (CIC)
The wider organisational framework that holds together community-rooted creativity, public projects, social purpose and interdisciplinary practice across multiple platforms.
Art Undefined Studio
A studio-facing platform for bespoke art services, visual commissions, installations, exhibitions, creative production and design-led transformation.
Public projects, cultural work and community impact
Over time, NINE RED Presents has developed a body of work that includes exhibitions, installations, performances, workshops, survivor-led projects, heritage activity and public storytelling.
Heritage and place
Projects have explored local history, public identity, carnival heritage, schools work, digital creativity and the stories that shape how communities see themselves.
Visit projectsSurvivor-centred practice
Other projects have created platforms for survivors of abuse and violence to be visible, expressive and heard through public-facing events, installations and community action.
Visit profileFollow the pathways this page is built from
This page brings together material from across the wider NINE RED network. Use the links below to explore the original platforms, legacy pages and connected spaces in more detail.