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Take Up Space

Take Up Space is an inter-disciplinary performance project that takes place in London prisons as part of Artsadmin’s creative criminal justice programme. This year Take Up Space was delivered by artist Lanre Malaolu and Education Producer Siobhan McGrath. They explored the suppression and expression of emotions through movement with young men at HMP Thameside. Siobhan reflects on the process in this blog.

Enter our Christmas Raffle and support artists

We want to raise £2,000 to fund the Artists' Bursary Scheme with our Christmas Raffle. Help us to get there!

Christoph Jankowski joins Artsadmin's Board of Trustees

Artsadmin is delighted to welcome Christoph Jankowski to our Board of Trustees.

The collectivism of sustainability

Artsadmin’s Green Team Leader, Alex Brown, shares his reflection at the beginning of his journey through the Julie’s Bicycle Accelerator Programme.

Artsadmin announces the 2018/19 BANNER artists

In Chains: care, empowerment and survival

Ahead of the opening of Hana Madness and the vacuum cleaner's exhibition, In Chains, at the National Gallery of Indonesia in Jakarta, Artists' Producer Mary Osborn reflects on how they got there.

METIS, WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE MAY BE, 2018: a photo story

Through storytelling, interaction and experimentation, teams collaborated to imagine their own alternative visions for the future. 

a resistant body

Over one week, a group of emerging artists explored how bodies can occupy space using performance to camera with artists Nandi Bhebhe and Phoebe Davies. Watch the work they created in this blog.

2018/19 Artsadmin Portfolio

Have a browse of the artist projects Artsadmin has available to tour in our 2018/19 Portfolio.

Artsadmin awarded EU funding for a collaborative project connecting art and audiences

We are delighted to find out this summer that our collaborative project Create to Connect has been awarded funding from Creative Europe for the next 4 years.

#SeasonforChange: organisations and artists across the UK spark conversations about the future of our planet

Artsadmin and Julie’s Bicycle are delighted to announce that Season for Change is underway with over 30 events having taken place in its first 6 weeks of the season!

My Traineeship: playground protests, pine branches and lessons learnt

From Birmingham city centre, to a local primary school, to the Barbican. Artsadmin Trainee Emily Bird reflects on her year working in producing and Artist Development.

Investing in hope: the Imagine 2020 Summer Lab 2018

Artist, producer and researcher, Joanne Matthews, reflects on what took place at this year's Imagine 2020 Summer Lab, as a group of participants explored how we can bring together art, activism and science to tackle climate change and engage with global transition.

From Snapchat to Food Awards: work experience at Artsadmin

Year 12 student at The Urswick School, Fatma, recently spent three days working with Artsadmin through her Arts Emergency mentorship. She tells us a bit about what she got up to in this blog.

The future is unchained

Read what went on at Unchained Nights, a creative platform for people with lived experience of the criminal justice system.

a resistant body: who holds the power?

Find out what went on at the a resistant body taster day, as a group of 16-25 year olds explored how their bodies occupy space.

Welcome to new Executive Director, Deborah Chadbourn

Deborah Chadbourn joins Artsadmin as the new Executive Director, succeeding Gill Lloyd after 33 years.

Easier said than run

Philippa Barr, Development Associate at Artsadmin, is running the London Marathon to raise money for Artsadmin’s education and artist development programmes. She tells us why she’s embarking on this 26-mile challenge…

In conversation with Gudrun Soley Sigurdardottir

Ahead of her performance at Toynbee Studios on 5 April, Artsadmin Trainee Emily caught up with BANNER artist Gudrun Soley Sigurdardottir about her new work and its development over the past year.

PLAYING UP: becoming a living artwork together

Artsadmin’s KIWI project features in a new Culture is Digital report

Artsadmin was chosen as a case study in this new Culture is Digital report.

Call out for participants: a resistant body

Phoebe Davies and Nandi Bhebhe are looking for a group of participants aged 16-25 years old to explore how bodies can occupy space; from physical to phonic, pop culture to protest, public to private, IRL to URL.

We’re looking for a new Executive Director

After 33 years, Gill Lloyd will be leaving Artsadmin in June 2018. So we are looking for a new Executive Director to succeed Gill and lead Artsadmin into the future.

A warm welcome to Cecilia Wee!

Call out for participants: Passage for Par

An opportunity to perform in a new outdoor dance-work created for Par Beach by choreographer Rosemary Lee.