Yorkshire Art Space

Yorkshire Art Space is based at Persistence Works on Brown Street in Sheffield’s Cultural Quarter. Designed by architects Feilden Clegg Bradley, this is the UK’s first purpose built fine art and craft studio complex, providing workspace for 68 artists, including sculptors, painters, jewellers, furniture makers and ceramicists.

Yorkshire Art Space supports visual artists and craftspeople by providing affordable studio space, business support services and access to outreach opportunities. Every year a wide range of visual art and craft events, open days and activities are organised to ensure that the skills of the artists working there are visible to a wide audience.

Yorkshire Art Space
0114 276 1769
Contact: info@artspace.demon.co.uk
Link: www.artspace.org.uk

The brief

This bursary comprised the opportunity to work in the Public Art Space at Persistence Works, for a period of 6 weeks. The space is 14m x 10m x 5m high, so is very large. Applicants were expected to demonstrate not only how they would effectively use such a large space – for large scale sculptures or installations, for projection or lighting projects, or similar – but also how working on a large scale would significantly contribute to the development of their creative practice.

This was very specifically a developmental opportunity, with no formal exhibition or other outcome expected of the artist. It was an opportunity to experiment, to work at an exceptionally large scale, and to take risks – even the risk of failure…