Performance devised by Elina Akmetova, curated by Ghost and John, photographed by Jeffrey Choy. 

Seeding

Space

Seeding Space is a talent development initiative that supports emerging artists to explore an idea for a creative project. Participants receive one week of access to one of our studios, with the opportunity to organise a small sharing of the work developed at the end. Since 2021, this initiative has awarded over 100 free space bursaries to more than 250 artists.

Since 2024, Seeding Space include mentoring, fundraising training and a small production budget.

Seeding Space can support most disciplines and formats within the visual and theatrical arts, with the exceptions of music, dance and movement due to acoustic and spatial restrictions. The bursaries are aimed at artists who would like to develop an idea, so proposals focussed on ticketed events will not be considered.

Seeding Space 2025 is supported by Arts Council England.

→ Our next open call will be coming soon.
→ Meet our current recipients here.

2025

Offer

– One week of access to a studio
– Fundraising training provided by Cause4
– Professional mentoring
– Small production budget

Who is it for?

The offer is open to companies, community groups, and individual artists working across the visual and theatrical arts who have an idea or project they wish to explore.

Application

Applications are closed. They are scored against the following criteria: Need for space (25%), planned use of space (the idea, the process, the benefit to the artist) (50%), and the overall quality of the application (25%)

Output

There are no specific expectations of output as the aim is to support experimentation and artistic development. All successful applicants will be asked to write a short report at the end of their bursary detailing what they have achieved.

Archive

→ Meet our previous recipients here.