Residencies
At this time we currently have no upcoming residencies.In 2025, we hosted three short-term summer residencies as part of a project to enable emerging artists to explore their practice in a new surrounding. Held at The Farm Art Space in Brighton, the artists were given access to a spacious studio and courtyard for two weeks to make artwork. Each culminating with a 3-day exhibition.
Ben Stezaker
In residence: 26th May - 8th June
“ This series of found sun-faded, cloth-covered hardback books collected over the last year, in which the ghost images of adjacent books or book ends have left their imprint as silhouettes. As the books are arranged and rearranged on bookshelves over years, a series of multiple exposures to ambient light create geometric collages of superimposed images of what has been.
In a way, these are unintentional ready-made photographs which have been developed without the human hand over decades of sunlight exposure. Unlike most photographic processes where light creates darkness on sensitised paper, the light is removing the pigment and leaving an image of what was once present - light creating an image of light. “
Long Exposures by Ben Stezaker (@benstezaker)
Helen Grant
In Residence: 16th - 29th June
“ Using commonplace signs and symbols as the basis for her larger than life sculptures and installations Grant questions how we relate to and receive information from art. The very obvious messages depicted by her sculptures seem only part of what they are saying, with their simplicity drawing attention to what is implied. “
Just My Luck by Helen Grant (@helenkgrant)
Beth Carriaga
In Residence: 7th - 20th July
“ Beth's practice spans drawing, printmaking, and painting, weaving themes of belonging as a queer Filipino immigrant in rural England, and the uneasy beauty of the countryside.
Working primarily with weathered found materials she creates delicate, animistic worlds that draw from folk tales, queer ecology, and children's stories. Beth aims to document unsettled boundaries between nature and culture, evoking both tenderness and discomfort. “
Soaring by Beth Carriaga (@bethcnie)
