About the Residency Venues

Kettle’s Yard house and gallery in Cambridge was founded by H.S. ‘Jim’ Ede who gave the house, its collection and contents to the University of Cambridge in 1966. Displaying his 20th century art collection throughout the house, it has an adjoining temporary exhibition space and remains true to Jim Ede’s vision as a place where visitors would ‘find a home and a welcome, a refuge of peace and order, of the visual arts and of music.’ Kettle’s Yard has grown to become one of the most important centres for 20th century and contemporary art in the country, combining the collection with the exhibition and music programmes. The gallery plans its programmes with a view to making links with other areas of human interest and between the contemporary and modern historical.

www.kettlesyard.co.uk

London Print Studio in West London is an independent not-for-profit organisation that promotes printmaking and the graphic arts through education and the provision of resources. It was established in 1974 as Paddington Printshop and became the London Print Studio in 1991. It has a custom-designed printmaking and graphic arts facility which includes facilities for screenprinting, etching, blockprinting, lithography and a digital studio with computers, scanners, graphics software and large format printers. The London Print Studio has a gallery with a changing programme of work by a wide range of artists including local and internationally established artists.

www.londonprintstudio.org.uk

The New Art Gallery Walsall is a unique award-winning civic gallery based in the West Midlands. It has a programme of contemporary exhibitions showing work by established national and international artists and houses a Permanent Art Collection comprising of 1500 historical works – including non-European art – as well as contemporary works of art. The Gallery is home to the Garman Ryan Collection, the Garman Ryan Epstein Collection and The Epstein Collection Archive and Library. It is one of a handful of purpose-built galleries built this century and has a fresh approach to its collections and their display. The New Art Gallery Walsall also has an Art Library and a designated Artist’s Studio which is used for The Gallery’s Artist in Residence programme.

www.artatwalsall.org.uk

Spike Island has established itself as a significant international centre combining working and exhibition space for the contemporary visual arts. Located at the edge of Bristol’s Harbourside, Spike Island is renowned for its international residency programme and its commissioned exhibitions, supporting the making and showing of ambitious new work. Spike Island is an excellent working environment for artists and those developing a path in the contemporary visual arts. Within the 80,000 square foot building, they provide exhibition and studio space as well as services and space for commercial creative industries.

www.spikeisland.org.uk

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland presents changing exhibitions of new work by artists. Working with both emerging and established artists, NGCA provides opportunities to artists at critical points in their creative development. Projects at NGCA often draw upon emerging ideas and developments in new art production, and reflect the diversity of contemporary artistic practice.

www.ngca.co.uk

Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, Wakefield is an international centre for modern and contemporary art set within 500 acres of 18th century parkland. Its stunning landscape was designed as a private pleasure ground and much thought was given to the planting of trees to create vistas, to the modelling of hills and valleys and the use of water and architectural features. It was split up in the late 1940s and the estate has, in recent years, been brought together by YSP. It has a changing programme of exhibitions of modern and contemporary sculpture in the parkland and hosts exhibitions by internationally acclaimed and early career artists in its temporary gallery spaces.

www.ysp.co.uk

Arnolfini is one of Europe’s leading centres for the contemporary arts. Located at Bristol’s Harbourside in a nineteenth century warehouse it reopened in September 2005 after substantial re-development and expansion. It’s internationally acclaimed visual art programme presents current developments and trends through solo and group exhibitions, commissions and projects, presenting work by important early career British artists and exhibitions by major international artists.

www.arnolfini.org.uk

Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester is the UK agency for the promotion and development of contemporary Chinese art and culture. Established in 1986, the Chinese Arts Centre acts as a broker, forging relationships between venues and artists and aims to develop an infrastructure to allow Chinese arts, and especially Chinese artists, to flourish. Chinese Arts Centre has enjoyed a number of significant exhibitions and has links with national and international artists, art institutions, private galleries and collectors.

www.chinese-arts-centre.org