Why have a studio in the middle of a community centre in Rialto? What could such a space possibly offer given the pressing everyday needs of many of the people who enter St Andrew’s? Such a venture might seem anomalous to those unaccustomed to having studios within working environments. Is it decorative? A diversion? An indulgence? Irrelevant? Or perhaps a quaint and patronising Victorian attempt at edification of the masses? The conjunction and association of those two words ‘art’ and ‘community’ unfortunately risks sanctioning the persistence of a tacit hierarchy between ‘proper’ art and that other kind of art that seeks to promote the common good or to emancipate, which thus serves another agenda. This is in part because the word ‘community’ is coded so that it doesn’t really mean the golf club communities of Enniskerry or the banking communities housed in the IFSC. Community implies those ‘others’ who differ from the hegemonic norm of the white, middle-class, Catholic, heterosexual, Irish male.