Art Un-Defined | NINE RED Presents
A Queen’s Award-winning creative organisation

ART UN-DEFINED

A Queen’s Award-winning creative organisation using art, words, sound and healing practice to transform people, places and possibilities.

Incorporated on 22 September 2006, when the CIC model was newly entering UK legislation, NINE RED Presents is Luton’s longest-serving community interest company. In June 2016, the organisation received the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK and the equivalent of an individual MBE.
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Think art. Think therapy. Think NINE RED. Art Un-Defined is the public-facing front door into a wider creative, cultural and healing network.
Three clear pathways Creative services, therapy services, and poetry and community work — all connected, all purpose-led.
Choose your pathway

Three routes from one homepage

Start here, then move into the specialist website that best fits what you need.

Poetry & community

Words Chose Me

Poetry, workshops, reading projects, storytelling and community programmes shaped through language, creativity and place.

Art services

Art Un-Defined Studio

Bespoke art services, creative solutions, installations, exhibitions, display, events and visual work that transforms spaces and experiences.

Therapy & healing

Art Medicine

Creative healing, wellbeing, holistic support and transformational services rooted in the belief that art can help people heal, cope and grow.

About Nine Red

A creative organisation with purpose

NINE RED Presents began as a DJ and Poet collaboration, producing Sound with Vision — an explosive blend of sound, colour and movement that brought storytelling to life through multiple mediums and deep listening.

That foundation grew into an interdisciplinary organisation spanning theatre arts, multimedia performance, art installations and exhibitions, spoken word and soundworks, carnival arts as therapy, bespoke art projects, cultural exhibitions and workshops, photo mosaics and montages, hand-poured candles and waxworks, 3D printing, community art projects, and visual, digital and graphic art.

Founders

Founded by Debra Knight and Gordon Davis

NINE RED Presents was founded by Debra Knight, also known as Naz Knight, and Gordon Davis, also known as DJ Silky G, whose creative partnership has shaped the organisation from the beginning.

Debra Knight / Naz Knight

Chief Executive Officer

Debra Knight LL.B (Hons) is Chief Executive Officer of NINE RED Presents CIC, a United Nations award winner for work with women and girls, a Word Mechanic, Poet, Writer and Poetry Champion for Bedfordshire.

She was Poet in Residence at Luton Town Football Club through the National Literacy Trust and Arts Council England’s A Poem For Your Club project, and is also a Kemetyu Holistic Health Practitioner, Narrative Psychologist, and human being in a perpetual state of evolution.

Gordon Davis / DJ Silky G

Founder and Director

Gordon Davis, also known as DJ Silky G, is founder and director of NINE RED Presents. His sound-led vision, production work and long-standing creative partnership at the heart of the organisation have helped shape its distinctive interdisciplinary identity for more than two decades.

Recognition & trust

Awards and credibility

Trusted, experienced and community-rooted creative practice, recognised locally and nationally.

QAVS 2016Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, announced in June 2016.
22 October 2016The award was presented by the Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire.
High Sheriff AwardBedfordshire Citizenship Award 2013 and wider civic recognition.
Community arts impactRecognition for volunteer work, carnival achievement and creative social value.
Contact

Start here

For collaborations, commissions, partnerships and general enquiries, begin with Art Un-Defined and we will guide you to the right part of the wider NINE RED network.