other

Hickster Projects

about:

Hickster Projects is a small experimental platform set up by Sue Kennington, It takes place in a remote space near Siena , Italy - where there is a growing audience of international art collectors, who would be unlikely to visit shows on the periphery of western urban centres and thus to showcase some of this exciting emerging artistic talent to a new and international audience. After showcasing the work at Hickster Projects, in the summer, the show then hopes to migrate to an urban ‘base’ – and find another audience.

how is/was it run/structured ?:

what is/was it's legal status ?:

other

how is/was it funded ?:

other

history of the site:

abandoned olive farm

management/organisers/directors/board/committee:

Sue Kennington

artists/curators in residence:

Sue Kennington

exhibited artists:

Vincent Hawkins

Sue Kennington

exhibitions, events, workshops:

'Zappatore'

address:

loc. Poggio Boldrini

53020 San Giovanni d'Asso , SI 43° 9' 22.3344" N, 11° 34' 18.984" E

See map: Google Maps

websites:

Hickster Projects

total size in sqm/sqft:

≤ 100 sq.m (1076 sq.ft)

usage:

work only

previous usage of the site:

other

number of exhibition/project spaces:

established:

2015

last known status of the project:

ongoing (this site)

last known status of the site:

occupied

Haarlem Artspace

about:

“On the hill opposite are some great stone quarries. It is as though something tore the hill open and said “Here, you shall see not only smooth but the hard strong stuff that is inside too”’ Olive Schreiner

Haarlem Artspace is a multi functional artist-led space whose aim is to encourage practice and research into contemporary art created in a rural environment.
It offers dedicated studios for artists and writers in the inspiring and historic Grade II* listed Haarlem Mill building, situated in the town of Wirksworth, Derbyshire. There will also be flexible public spaces that will present an engaging and ambitious program of events and activities relating to landscape, the environment and ecology.

We’re looking for ambitious artists and writers, to further and develop their practices at Haarlem. They will be invited to participate in a program of exhibitions and events, which will explore and develop links with the Wirksworth Festival and the wider creative community. We will develop commissions, events, and a residency program, which will have on-going links with other studio groups, both national and international.Artists will be supported in the development of new work via a group critique program, optional tutoring, funding advice and support, alongside online representation.
Studio spaces are by application. To apply submit an expression of interest outlining why you’d like a space at Haarlem and how you would use it, include an artist statement, images and supporting links to: studios@haarlemartspace.co.uk

The Peak District is an area of outstanding natural beauty in the heart of England, and North Derbyshire. The Haarlem Mill building was the first ever coal powered mill significant in the Industrial revolution. Historic literary links include George Elliot, D.H.Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, Olive Schreiner, Eleanor Marx, and Friedrich Engels. Wirksworth is the setting for George Elliots fictional ‘Mill on the Floss’. Being restored to English Heritage standards, Haarlem Mill is a beautiful and inspiring place to work and develop artistic ideas
www.haarlemartspace.co.uk
studios@haarlemartspace.co.uk

how is/was it run/structured ?:

partnership

what is/was it's legal status ?:

community interest company

how is/was it funded ?:

grant

history of the site:

Haarlem Mill, on the River Ecclesbourne in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, was an early cotton mill. Built by Richard Arkwright, it was the first cotton mill in the world to use a steam engine, to supplement the supply of water to the mill's water wheel.
The novelist George Eliot, is said to have based the characters Adam Bede and Dinah Morris in her novel 'Adam Bede' on her uncle, the Haarlem Mill manager, and his wife, and to have used Haarlem Mill as the inspiration for the mill in 'The Mill on the Floss'.

The site of the mill, including an older corn mill, was leased by Arkwright in 1777. Construction of the mill building in brick and stone was completed by June 1780,
operational at this date. After initially investigating the purchase of a steam engine from the Birmingham firm of Boulton and Watt, Arkwright installed a reciprocating steam engine, probably manufactured by Francis Thompson of Ashover, to supplement the occasionally inadequate water supply.
By 1789 the mill was employing almost 200 people, but it was sold by Arkwright three years later. The base of the original building survives, but the upper three floors have since been rebuilt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haarlem_Mill

Haarlem Mill was set up as Artists Studio's in 2015 for opening spring 2016, by Artists Geoff Diego Litherland, Olivia Punnett, and Bev Shephard, Finance Director.

management/organisers/directors/board/committee:

Geoff Diego Litherland, Partner

Olivia Punnett, Partner

Bev Shephard, Partner

additional information:

We’re looking for ambitious artists and writers at varying stages in their careers, to further and develop their practices at Haarlem. They will be invited to participate in a program of exhibitions and events, which will explore and develop links with the Wirksworth Festival and the wider creative community. We hope to secure funding which will allow us to develop commissions, events, and a residency program, which will have on-going links with other studio groups, both national and international. Artists will be supported in the development of new work via a group critique program, optional tutoring, funding advice and support, alongside online representation. Studio spaces are by application. To apply submit an expression of interest outlining why you’d like a space at Haarlem and how you would use it, include an artist statement, images and supporting links to: studios@haarlemartspace.co.uk

address:

Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth

Derby Rd, Haarlem Mill

DE4 4BG Matlock , DER 53° 4' 12.0648" N, 1° 34' 39.8856" W

See map: Google Maps

websites:

haarlemartspace

Haarlem Face Book

Haarlem Twitter

total size in sqm/sqft:

≤ 250 sq.m (2691 sq.ft)

usage:

work only

previous usage of the site:

other

number of studios:

11 - 25

types of studios:

open plan

types of workshops:

library/reading-room, printing

established:

2015

last known status of the project:

ongoing (this site)

last known status of the site:

occupied

Salon Neu

about:

made the north sea a radical project space
by installing a group show in it (collaboration with Embassy Gallery)
commemorative mousemats now change hands on ebay for £200

how is/was it run/structured ?:

other

what is/was it's legal status ?:

other

how is/was it funded ?:

national

exhibitions, events, workshops:

Salon Neu

address:

The North Sea

57° 9' 14.832" N, 2° 22' 22.9764" E

See map: Google Maps

websites:

Salon Neu

total size in sqm/sqft:

> 10000 sq.m (107639 sq.ft)

usage:

mixed live & work / work only

previous usage of the site:

number of studios:

100 +

number of workshops:

10 +

number of exhibition/project spaces:

10 +

types of studios:

open plan, private

types of workshops:

other

established:

2011

last known status of the project:

ongoing (this site)

last known status of the site:

occupied

Dilston Studio

Dilston Grove, Concrete Quarterly, 1974, Church into Studio (photo: Trevor Jones)

about:

Dilston Grove, the name of a sleepy back road in the southwest corner of Southwark Park, London SE16 also marks the focal point at one end of the street, a building of concrete construction built and blessed as Clare College Mission Church in 1911. The iconic cross, perched on the roof, denotes the building's former use; its continued presence maintains a symbolic reference to its role as a sanctuary for an ever changing flock.

The history and meaning of the building was reshaped in 1969 by a group of artists, graduates from the Royal College of Art, who shared the inner sanctuary as a studio/workshop. With the metamorphosis of ‘church into studio’ came the renaming of the building to Dilston Studio. The interior became a lofty, empty, rectangular shell, an open work space for several artists though ‘there are a few clues as to its previous use - a raised area at the north end where the altar used to be, a balcony where the organist once sat....’

In 1978 the local authority had other plans for the building and the artists vacated. For the following twenty-one years the future of Dilston Studio remained in the balance; pigeons took vacant possession. In 1999 the Bermondsey Artists' Group resumed the artistic link with the 70s securing a short lease from Southwark Council for the Café Gallery. Dilston Studio has now become known as Dilston Grove.

from: 'Artists in East London'
online available at: www.acme.org.uk/download.php?pdf=149‎
(accessed September 2013)

how is/was it run/structured ?:

group

what is/was it's legal status ?:

unincorporated organisation

how is/was it funded ?:

studios

history of the site:

Dilston Grove is the former Clare College Mission Church on the Southwest corner of Southwark Park and is Grade II listed. Designed by architects Sir John Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton, it was built in 1911 and is one of the earliest examples of poured concrete construction.

studio artists:

Richard Wentworth

Carl Plackman

Jane & Charles Dillon

Jane Hill

Sue Saunders

address:

Southwark Park Abbeyfield Rd

SE16 London 51° 29' 30.4836" N, 0° 3' 15.8724" W

See map: Google Maps

usage:

work only

previous usage of the site:

other

number of studios:

1 - 5

types of studios:

open plan, private

established:

1969

vacated:

1978

last known status of the project:

finished

last known status of the site:

redeveloped

The Woodmill GP

about:

"(...) The first part of this organisation’s name comes from its previous location – the Woodmill building, rundown former council offices in Bermondsey, southeast London, that, from 2009 to 2011, was home to a hundred artists, designers and filmmakers. (...)

During a short period of itinerancy, enforced by the end of the tenancy, the six original studio holders – Naomi Pearce, Stuart Middleton, Anna Baker, Angharad E. P. Williams, Richard Sides and Alastair Frazer – in liaison with their newly founded board of trustees spent many hours working out what the Woodmill should be (as well as searching for a new location – no former primary school, warehouse or empty retail unit was left unturned). The upshot of this was a decision to build the idea of constant flux into the organisation’s character. This resolution was not just a pragmatic one, but also one that resonated with the Woodmill’s desire for perpetual reinvention, for avoiding its own establishment and for eschewing any desire to become an institution with permanent footings. Happily ensconced, for now, in a former doctor’s surgery (which supplies the ‘GP’ part of the new name: ‘general practice’) – in which the old waiting room doubles as a shared studio and temporary exhibition and screening space (dinners, gigs and workshops are on the cards), with each of the doctor’s offices becoming private work digs, including a gratis residency studio – the Woodmill will move on again after one year. And it will voluntarily repeat this annual migration for the foreseeable future. Each time it moves, the Woodmill will evolve: it may become more popular; it will engage with more people; it may get written about more; the gallery footfall may increase; the space it occupies may be larger; it may move somewhere smaller. But by the nature of its instability, it won’t put down roots. It won’t be forced into an upward trajectory. Which, in a world dominated by the socioeconomic buzzwords of ‘growth’ and ‘development’, where artists are categorised as failures if they don’t move from the ‘emerging’ label to ‘midcareer’ or ‘established’, is a pretty grand ideal."

Oliver Basciano (2012), "Off-Space no 9: The Woodmill, London - Entering the Establishment"
online available at: http://artreview.com/features/off_space_no_9_woodmill_london/
(accessed 13 Sep 2013)

how is/was it run/structured ?:

group

what is/was it's legal status ?:

charity

how is/was it funded ?:

history of the site:

Local GP Surgery

management/organisers/directors/board/committee:

studio artists:

Simon Werner

Frances Scott

artists/curators in residence:

Matthew Johnstone

Renaud Jerez

Beth Collar

Daniel Lichtman

Robert Crosse

Martin Gross

Christopher Smith

exhibited artists:

Ilja Karilampi

exhibitions, events, workshops:

'Medulla Oblongata' - Ilja Karilampi (commission)
11.2013- 02.2014

'Boiled Angel' - 18.10.13 - 08.12.13
Artists: Michael Bell-Smith, Max Maslansky, Louise Sartor, Ariana Reines, Mike Diana

'Wendel! Open Your Door', @ Cafe Gallery Projects + Southwark Park, 06.07.2013 – 28.07.2013
artists: Sol Archer, Anna Bunting-Branch, Cindie Cheung, Will Cenci, Beth Collar, Annie Davey, Chris Fite-Wassilak, Alastair Frazer, Patrick Goddard, Anna Gritz, Charmian Griffin, Dean Kenning, Una Knox, Lawrence Leaman, Daniel Lichtman, Will May-Robinson, Stuart Middleton, Laura Oldfield Ford, Naomi Pearce, Sam Porritt, Richard Sides, Frances Scott, Christopher M. Smith, Jennifer Teets, Simon Werner, Angharad E.P Williams

'Robert Crosse: Home Advantage', Screening @ Millwall FC, The Den: 27.04.2013

'Residency #4: Martin Groß', Exhibition + Screening: 11.06.2013
artists: Martin Groß + Emily Richardson with Jonathan P Watts

'Residency #3: Daniel Lichtman / Public Access Television Within a World Systems Pattern of Understanding', Lecture event @ City Business Centre: 27.02.13

'Residency #2: Beth Collar - Ancient Britain', 14.11.2012 – 14.12.2012

'Dickens Dinner': 08.12.2012
Dinner time event by The Woodmill with invited contributions: Lucy Beech & Edward Thomasson, Ben Burgis, Adam Christensen, Beth Collar, Dave Green, Rafael Hefti

'Nobody Ordered Wolves - Screening Series', 22.10.2012 – 03.12.2012

'General Practice', 06.10.2012 – 14.10.2012
artists: Anna Baker, Cindie Cheung, Ben Connors, Annie Davey, Renaud Jerez, Michael Robert Johnstone, Una Knox, Stuart Middleton, Frances Scott, Richard Sides, Simon Werner, Angharad E P Williams and invited guests.