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An image of BULLYACHE cast performing TOM. They make gestural. dramatic poses, wearing trashy, beaded, glamorous costumes. They have clownish makeup and moody expressions

TOM

2023 – 2024

An image of some stick-like, stranger and fragile puppets in a desolate landscape

Matter Era

Tim Spooner

2023 – 2025

$A collage of photos of Black women's hands and feet, combined with green mossy boxes and fractal reflections$

biome: experiments in radical kinship

Zoë Laureen Palmer

2023 – 2024

A photo of several people participating in a workshop inside the Artsadmin Canteen

Community Climate Champions

2023

Jennie Moran, stood in front of a yellow food cart with a red neon glow inside holding an illuminated. Jennie is wearing a yellow dress and holding an illuminated red watering can

Say Yes to Who or What Turns Up

Jennie Moran

2022

A landscape compilation of six stills from the Orchard Portrait video installation. Each still is of a hand touching different branch. Above the image reads 'Rosemary Lee, Orchard Portraits' and below the image reads '29 July - 2 November, West Horsley Place'

Orchard Portraits

Rosemary Lee and Roswitha Chesher

2022 – 2023

Another Route

An international fellowship for artists based in England

2021 – 2024

birds eye view of people sat at tables eating and talking

Practice Research Residency

Dr Malaika Cunningham

2021 – 2023

Buddleia: The Unchained Story

Lady Unchained

2020 – 2022

Lady Unchained stands in front of a graffitied wall with right fist raised in the air

The Forgotten People

Lady Unchained

2020 – 2021

two portraits of artists

The Apocalypse Reading Room Residencies

Lateisha Lovelace-Hanson and Mohammed Z. Rahman

2020 – 2021

person sitting on an armchair reading a book, wearing a mask. They are surrounded by plants, books and lamps

The Apocalypse Reading Room

Ama Josephine Budge

2020 – 2021

Person's arm stretched out against wooden fence background. There are pen drawings of stick people walking across their arm.

As Far As Isolation Goes

Tania El Khoury and Basel Zaraa

2020

Basel leans over someone's arm and draws on it

As Far As My Fingertips Take Me

Tania El Khoury and Basel Zaraa

2020

Church of the Latter Day Sinners

Stacy Makishi

2020 – 2023

Two people standing with black background. one person standing behind another with hands out pulling their face.

Summer Intensive

For young people

2020 – 2022

Two people sit at a table reading books

BE PART

Exploring the ethics of participatory arts

2020 – 2024

people stood in park performing different choral noises

Immersion

Selina Thompson

2020 – 2022

My big sister taught me this lap dance

Rosana Cade

2019 – 2025

Arrivals + Departures

YARA + DAVINA

2019 – 2022

Circadian

Rosemary Lee

2019 – 2020

Factory of the Future

METIS

2019 – 2025

2 Degrees Festival 2019

2019

Uproot

Curious

2019 – 2025

two people in a laboratory creating with random objects

Cuteness Forensics

Tim Spooner & Tom Richards

2019

Live Forever

40 Years of Artsadmin

2019

two performers on stage smiling, with audience watching

Creative Criminal Justice Programme

Lady Unchained

2019 – 2022

In Chains

the vacuum cleaner

2018 – 2019

Monuments of…

Tim Spooner

2018 – 2025

To the River

Caroline Wright

2018 – 2022

The Heart of the Matter

Sofie Layton & Giovanni Biglino

2018

Season for Change 2018

2018

Dead Nature

Tim Spooner & Enrico Aurigemma

2018 – 2019

The Pulverised Palace

Tim Spooner & Anne Ayçoberry

2018

The Comforter

Stacy Makishi

2018

Wild Longings

Curious

2018 – 2025

people walking on a street holding a tree in front of McDonald's

Season for Change

Inspiring urgent climate action

2018 – 2022

The art of a culture of hope

J&J

2017 – 2018

WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE MAY BE

METIS

2017 – 2020

Distinguished Hits (1991-2000)

La Ribot

2017

2 Degrees Festival 2017

2017

Washed Up Car-go

Chris Dobrowolski

2017 – 2023

The Breath Control Project

Caroline Wright

2017 – 2025

Making More Space

Nic Green

2016

Associate Artists Scheme

2016 – 2018

Artwork image

Empathy Museum

Clare Patey

2016 – 2021

The Voice of Nature

Tim Spooner

2016 – 2018

Another Distinguée

La Ribot

2016 – 2017

World Factory

METIS

2016 – 2017

Más Distinguidas (Revival)

La Ribot

2015 – 2016

Hawkers Pick Over Fruit Here

straybird

2015

film still

Finding Fanon Part Two

Larry Achiampong & David Blandy

2015 – 2016

The Apartment

Station House Opera

2015

Antarctica

Chris Dobrowolski

2015 – 2019

Natalie Jeremijenko: TREExOFFICE

2015

The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination: HackCop21

2015

2 Degrees Festival 2015

2015

Brett Bloom: Breakdown Break Down workshop

2015

Capitalism Works for Me! (True/False)

Steve Lambert

2015 – 2019

Arts Award

Qualifications for under 25s

2015 – 2020

Tell me what you think about my work and I'll pay you £30

Rosalie Schweiker

2015

The Freedom Theatre: Creation Under Occupation Workshop

2015

Make Space Summer Project 2015

Nic Green

2015

Mark Storor: The Barometer of My Heart

2015

Jangbar

Zarina Bhimji

2015

New Empowering School

Project O

2015

Prologue

2015

Ailleurs en Folie - Londres

(Home and Away - London)

2015

10 people on a stage, 5 gathered around a table, 2 cooking food, a projection of a similar scene in Gaza is on the screen behind

At Home in Gaza and London

Station House Opera

2015 – 2025

Networks & Advocacy

2015 – 2020

Handmade Weekend

2014 – 2015

Umama is sat on a stage, in a dark set with a large projection behind her of a clip of a woman being interviewed in a desert

Banner

Graduate artist programme

2014 – 2021

My Home is my Museum

Caroline Wright

2014

Vesper Time

Stacy Makishi

2014 – 2017

Calling Tree

Rosemary Lee & Simon Whitehead

2014 – 2020

Make Space: Summer Project 2014

Nic Green

2014

Does It Matter?

2014 – 2015

dancers in red walking along a path surrounded by trees

Under the Vaulted Sky

Rosemary Lee

2014

The Assembly of Animals

Tim Spooner

2014 – 2025

The Current Situation

Yara El-Sherbini

2014

One of Us

Gary Stevens

2014

Pre-show // Degree-show

2014 – 2016

Dissolved

Station House Opera

2013

TOYNBEE

Geraldine Pilgrim

2013

Person holding a ballon in a party and smiling

Unlimited

Arts commissioning programme

2013 – 2022

Money Talks

2013 – 2015

Work Experience

2013

PILOT

Caroline Wright

2013

Make Space: Summer Project 2013

Nic Green

2013

Edgy Centres: Experiments in Space

2013

The Roadless Trip

Sarah Woods

2013 – 2016

Two Degrees 2013

2013

Two Degrees: Change the Record!

2013

The Falsettos

Stacy Makishi

2013 – 2014

Granted: crowd-funding seminar

2013

Mental

the vacuum cleaner

2013 – 2019

what_now

Frank Bock

2013

Museum of Water

Amy Sharrocks

2013 – 2025

Aping the Beast

Serena Korda

2013

art of begegnung comes tomorrow slowly

Sinéad O'Donnell

2013

Donation box

Catalyst

2013 – 2015

Artsadmin Jerwood Commissions

2013

Influences

Phoebe Davies

2013

Best Before End

Curious

2013 – 2015

Biter

David Blandy

2012

The Ice Cream Van

Rebecca Davies

2012

Lachrymae

Artmusic

2012

On Taking Care: Symposium

Rosemary Lee

2012

24 Grotesque Manipulations

Tim Spooner

2012 – 2014

Now and Again

Gary Stevens

2012

King Real Against the Guidelines / Luxuriant

Simon Vincenzi

2012 – 2013

Hunt & Darton Cafe

Hunt & Darton

2012 – 2014

All Roads Lead to Rome

Chris Dobrowolski

2012 – 2018

Slipstreaming

Curious

2012 – 2013

Summer Project 2012

2012

Out of Water

Caroline Wright & Helen Paris

2012

Underscore

Mem Morrison

2012

Interference 2012 – The Ice Cream Van

2012

Yew Tube

Graeme Miller

2012

What Matters

Lucy Cash straybird

2012

Picture and Piano

Graeme Miller

2012

Plunge

Michael Pinsky

2012

Londoners speak up about climate change

2012

The Making of Bull: The True Story

Stacy Makishi

2012

Unlimited Global Alchemy

Rachel Gadsden

2012

Mobile Salons

The Haircut Before the Party (THBTP)

2012

14 Lines

Curious

2011

Imagine 2020 Summer Labs

2011 – 2019

Summer Project 2011

2011

The Unknitted Lives of Young Girls

Anne Bean

2011

The Salon Toynbee St

The Haircut Before the Party (THBTP)

2011

WAKE

Anne Bean

2011

ARCHIPELAGO

Gary Stevens

2011

Now and Then

Geraldine Pilgrim

2011

What On Earth - Curious, Graeme Miller, Matthew Robins, Robin Deacon, Ackroyd & Harvey, Lucy Cash

What On Earth

Various artists

2011 – 2016

Two Degrees 2011

2011

Operation Infinity

Simon Vincenzi

2011 – 2013

14 Lines of Love

Curious

2011

Local

Mem Morrison

2011

Square Dances

Rosemary Lee

2011

Like a Bird

Lucy Cash

2011

Live Art Collective East (LACE)

Caroline Wright

2011 – 2012

PARAdistinguidas

La Ribot

2011

CAUTION

Sinéad O'Donnell

2011 – 2012

A Patch of Ground: rural / urban 2011

Encounters

2011

Radical Talk

2011 – 2013

Yellow Patch

Zarina Bhimji

2011

Lighthouse in the Sea of Time

Zineb Sedira

2011 – 2013

Not Tony / Island

Gary Stevens

2010 – 2012

Sea Swallow’d

Curious

2010

Not Forgotten

Geraldine Pilgrim

2010 – 2011

TAPS: Improvisations with Paul Burwell

Anne Bean

2010

Future Editions

A human library from across the city of Edinburgh

2010

Sewing your Shadow

Lucy Cash

2010

Moth Theatre

Graeme Miller

2010 – 2014

Be Prepared

Geraldine Pilgrim

2010

Never the Same Twice

Lucy Cash

2010

Summer Project 2010

2010 – 2012

Interference 2010

2010

Track

Graeme Miller

2010 – 2016

A Benchmark in Post-Capitalism

2010

In Preparation

Athina Vahla

2010

What If...

Various artists

2010

Falafel Road Residency

Oreet Ashery

2010

Splinter in the Flesh

Athina Vahla

2010

Live art in Schools

2010 – 2013

Dot Dot Dash Dot

2010 – 2011

Handbag

Geraldine Pilgrim

2010 – 2011

Lost Time

Geraldine Pilgrim

2010 – 2011

LUXURIANT: Within The Reign of Anticipation

Simon Vincenzi

2010 – 2011

The Ouroboros Recordings

Simon Vincenzi

2010 – 2011

Pass it On

Various artists

2009 – 2010

Bassline: London

Graeme Miller

2009

SCRITS

For under 25 year olds

2009 – 2011

the moment I saw you I knew I could love you

Curious

2009 – 2010

Everything That Happens Here

Lucy Cash

2009

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie

Geraldine Pilgrim

2009

Grand Magasin Residency

2009

Plane Food Cafe

Richard DeDomenici

2009 – 2010

C.R.A.S.H

2009

PAVES

Anne Bean

2009 – 2011

Bobby Baker's Diary Drawings

Bobby Baker

2009 – 2010

Ringside

Mem Morrison

2009 – 2010

Common Dance

Rosemary Lee

2009

Talking With Your Mouth Full

For under 25 year olds

2009 – 2010

Darwin Originals

Various artists

2009

Why I Don't Hate White People

Lemn Sissay

2009 – 2010

Talking Shop

2009 – 2013

Town Hall Artworks: Artists Commissions

2009 – 2012

Fight Club

Athina Vahla

2009

Floating Coffins

Zineb Sedira

2008 – 2009

Universality Challenge

Yara El-Sherbini

2008 – 2009

ArtRole Residency

2008

MiddleSea

Zineb Sedira

2008

Weather Dances

2008 – 2010

Mind Out

Station House Opera

2008 – 2010

Artsblog & Artsblog Live

2008 – 2009

Getting to Know You

2008

What's wrong with the world?

Station House Opera

2008

Long Time Passing

Anne Bean

2008 – 2010

I am a Thinktank

Richard DeDomenici

2008

First F.E.A.T

Bobby Baker

2008

Give Peas A Chance!

Bobby Baker

2008

Balloon

2008 – 2010

A Model Family Pilot

Bobby Baker

2008

The Infinite Pleasures of the Great Unknown

Simon Vincenzi

2008

Before you Go

Lucy Cash

2008

Traces

Geraldine Pilgrim

2008

Listening Post

Athina Vahla

2008

Periphery

Graeme Miller

2007 – 2008

Sight Reading

Lucy Cash

2007

Office Party Xmas 2007

2007

Crafty Folk

2007

Tebrik

Mem Morrison

2007

Bells of Shoreditch

Anne Bean

2007

Summer School 2007-2009

Mem Morrison

2007 – 2009

Spaces Between

Athina Vahla

2007

Ballistic Buns

Bobby Baker

2007

Summer Season

2007

Monumental growing green wall

FlyTower

Ackroyd & Harvey

2007

A Chain of Events Called Bob

Gary Stevens

2007 – 2008

Ape

Gary Stevens

2007 – 2009

(be)longing film

Curious

2007

Uprising

2007

an evening display of lights cascading from the Toynbee Studios building

Toynbee Studios launch event

Anne Bean

2007

Mapping Artsadmin: A Residency

2007

Vena Amoris

Curious

2007

(be)longing

Curious

2007

Wake Up and Hide

Gary Stevens

2007

Desert Island Dances

Wendy Houstoun

2007 – 2008

Table Occasions

Bobby Baker

2007

Enchanted Parks

Geraldine Pilgrim

2007

Dreams of a Winter Night

Geraldine Pilgrim

2007

Backwards

Station House Opera

2007 – 2010

Youth Board

2007 – 2019

Leftovers

Mem Morrison

2006 – 2008

The Other is You

Station House Opera

2006

Play on Earth

Station House Opera

2006 – 2007

Autobituary

Anne Bean

2006

Lost and Found

Curious

2006

Stranded

Ackroyd & Harvey

2006

Slow Life

Gary Stevens

2005 – 2006

Flock

Gary Stevens

2005 – 2007

Take A Peek!

Bobby Baker

2005

Steak House

2005

Smoking Gun

Curious

2005

Family Hold Back

Curious

2005

Deep End

Geraldine Pilgrim

2005

Star Dust

Geraldine Pilgrim

2005

Live From Paradise

Station House Opera

2004 – 2006

How to Live

Bobby Baker

2004 – 2007

Reap

Anne Bean

2004 – 2005

Something Dark

Lemn Sissay

2004 – 2009

deciBel Visual Arts Award

2004 – 2008

Remote Dancing

Rosemary Lee

2004 – 2007

Undo

Mem Morrison

2004 – 2005

Essences of London

Curious

2004

Bassline: Vienna

Graeme Miller

2004

The Invisible Dances

Bock and Vincenzi

2004

On the Scent

Curious

2003 – 2009

invisible dances…from afar: a show that will never be shown

Bock and Vincenzi

2003

Specific Natures

Ackroyd & Harvey

2003

Spa

Geraldine Pilgrim

2003

Stereo Dances

Rosemary Lee

2002 – 2008

The Suchness of Heni and Eddie

Rosemary Lee

2002 – 2007

And

Gary Stevens

2002

Happy Hour

Wendy Houstoun

2001 – 2009

Mare's Nest

Station House Opera

2001

Dancing Nation

Rosemary Lee

2001

The Moebius Strip

2001 – 2004

Brink

Rosemary Lee

2001

Apart From the Road

Rosemary Lee

2001 – 2004

Box Story

Bobby Baker

2001

Talking Still-Life

Gary Stevens

2000 – 2001

Breathtaking

Bock and Vincenzi

2000

Braindance

2000

performers on stage with projections

Passage

Rosemary Lee

2000 – 2001

Pull Yourself Together

Bobby Baker

2000

An Die Musik 2000

2000

Hotel

Geraldine Pilgrim

2000

Dreamwork 3

Geraldine Pilgrim

2000

House (La Maison)

Gary Stevens

1999 – 2004

Macrocosm (1999)

1999

One To One

Rosemary Lee

1999 – 2022

Banquet Dances (Take me to the River)

Rosemary Lee

1999

Grown-Up School

Bobby Baker

1999

The Other Side (L'Altro Lato)

Ackroyd & Harvey

1999

Blasted Oak

Ackroyd & Harvey

1999

invisible dances...1999-2006

Bock and Vincenzi

1999 – 2006

A Sense of Belonging

Rosemary Lee

1999

performer with one hand on their chest, the other reaching out, and their eyes closed

Artists’ Bursary Scheme

Cash award and mentoring

1999 – 2021

Infanta

Rosemary Lee

1998

greenman

Rosemary Lee

1998

Snakes and Ladders

Station House Opera

1998

Roadmetal, Sweetbread

Station House Opera

1998 – 2008

Thread

Gary Stevens

1997 – 2006

Silver

Rosemary Lee

1997 – 2008

Charged

Rosemary Lee

1997 – 2008

5 Songs

Rosemary Lee

1997

Treading the Night Plain

Rosemary Lee

1997

Three Studies in Courtship

Rosemary Lee

1997

A + B = X

1997 – 2000

Mas distinguidas

La Ribot

1997

Conservatory

1997

Group Works 1980-1989

Rosemary Lee

1997 – 1998

Dedesnn nn rrrrrr

Station House Opera

1996

The Seed, The Root

1996

boy

Rosemary Lee

1995

Forest Dances

Bock and Vincenzi

1995 – 1997

Exhale

Rosemary Lee

1994 – 1998

Timepiece

Gary Stevens

1993

How To Shop

Bobby Baker

1993

Heart Home

Rosemary Lee

1993

Ascending Fields

Rosemary Lee

1992

Going Bye Byes

1992

90's Site Specific

Rosemary Lee

1992 – 1993

Name

Gary Stevens

1991 – 1992

Penthorpe Performance Trail

Rosemary Lee

1991

Black Works

Station House Opera

1991

Kitchen Show

Bobby Baker

1991

Cook Dems

Bobby Baker

1990

Haughmond Dances

Rosemary Lee

1990

Egg Dances film

Rosemary Lee

1990

Piranesi in Tokyo

Station House Opera

1990

Animal

Gary Stevens

1989

Tenderhooks

Rosemary Lee

1989 – 1990

The Bastille Dances

Station House Opera

1989

The Navigators

1989

You, the city

1989

Feathered Snippet

Rosemary Lee

1988 – 1990

Drawing On A Mother's Experience

Bobby Baker

1988

Egg Dances

Rosemary Lee

1988 – 1990

Memoirs of a Cast of Thousands

Rosemary Lee

1988 – 1990

Early Solos

Rosemary Lee

1987 – 1993

Different Ghosts

Gary Stevens

1987

New Springs from Old Winters

Rosemary Lee

1987

Early Large Scale Participatory Works

Rosemary Lee

1987

Gor Hoi

1987

The Summit

1987

You Strike the Woman, You Strike the Rock

Vusisizwe Players

1987

If the Cap Fits

Gary Stevens

1985 – 1987

Invisible Work

Gary Stevens

1984 – 1985

The Carrier Frequency

1983

Redheugh

1980