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.
NINE RED Art Un-Defined logo
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, artists’ profiles 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), also known as Naz Knight, 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 is a narrative-driven creative whose work spans poetry, prose, performance, facilitation and project design, often weaving together lived experience, social justice and healing-centred practice.

As Poet in Residence at Luton Town Football Club through the National Literacy Trust and Arts Council England’s A Poem For Your Club project, she brought poetry into new spaces, connecting football culture with literacy, belonging and voice. Alongside her creative practice, she is a Kemetyu Holistic Health Practitioner and Narrative Psychologist, bringing integrative approaches to wellbeing, decolonial thinking and personal transformation into the organisation’s work. Her leadership style combines strategic direction with deep listening, ensuring NINE RED’s programmes remain survivor-informed, community-rooted and grounded in the belief that people can rewrite their own stories.

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.

He is a Luton-based DJ, community creative and events organiser known for blending classic old skool jungle, soulful house and timeless dancefloor anthems into high-energy, feel-good sets.

Performing under the tag line “Why settle for cotton, when you can move with Silk”, he has built a reputation for smooth transitions, deep crate-digging selections and a hosting style that puts crowd connection at the centre of every night.

His work often crosses over with local arts and community projects, bringing a distinctive musical identity to grassroots events and culturally focused nights across Bedfordshire and beyond.

#TheCommunityCan

Piece by Peace belongs in the heart of this homepage

A celebration of what the community built together, and a call to keep the spirit alive as we work toward a new community hub for Sundon Park.

Piece by Peace was built by community hands, community care and community imagination. Together, residents, volunteers, artists, partners and supporters helped shape a living space for creativity, wellbeing, conversation, food growing, festivals, exhibitions and connection.

We want to thank everyone who gave their time, practical help, materials, energy, belief and presence. What was created mattered. It brought people together, made room for joy and healing, and showed what becomes possible when local people build with purpose.

Although the hub was shut down, the community spirit behind Piece by Peace has not disappeared, and the vision remains alive. #TheCommunityCan is here to honour what we built and help inspire the rebuilding of a new community hub for Sundon Park.
Piece by Peace community hub garden with flags and chess wall
What we built Community growing, wellbeing activity, workshops, gatherings, creative experiences and shared public space shaped with local people.
What we proved That Sundon Park has vision, talent, generosity and the collective power to create something meaningful together.
What comes next Keep the story alive, keep the pressure for consultation visible, and keep building momentum for a new community hub for Sundon Park.
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.
Support the work

Buy, book and help sustain the work

Every order, booking and enquiry helps support the wider creative, healing, cultural and community work we are building through NINE RED Presents. Visit our Order & Book Online page to explore ways to purchase from us, book with us and support the projects.

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.