Deadline: 25 June 2025
The Gasworks is accepting applications for its Participation Residency Programme for artists of all disciplines, based in London, who are interested in working with people and communities.
The programme’s aim is to support artists to develop participatory projects that begin as powerful ideas and emerge through dialogue and co-creation with local people.
Over a period of eight months (1 October 2025 to 30 June 2026), the selected artist will work directly with local communities in Lambeth and Southwark. The artist will receive administrative, pastoral, and curatorial support from the Gasworks’ team and Participation Advisory Board.
Funding Information
- A daily fee of £250 per day (a total of £16,000, with the expectation to work two days per week over an 8-month period).
- A total programme budget of £4,750 to cover all activities, materials, and any fees for external support.
- Administrative, pastoral, and curatorial support from Gasworks’ Assistant Curator: Participation, Curator and the Participation Advisory Board.
- The artist will have access to Gasworks’ Participation Space (shared with other programmes and the Gasworks team) for residency activities. Due to limitations of this space, flexibility will be required around space availability and usage.
- Opportunities to engage with Gasworks’ wider audience through Open Studios, networking and social events.
- A dedicated residency page on Gasworks’ website, including video interview introducing the artist’s work and project.
Eligibility Criteria
- The open call is for artists of all disciplines, based in London, who can commit to working two days a week from the 1st of October 2025 to the 30th of June 2026, with a two week break at Christmas and Easter.
- This opportunity is ideal for an artist who:
- Values co-creation over predetermined outcomes and who understands the importance of working with care, patience and responsiveness.
- Develops work iteratively, with others, allowing for flexibility and change as projects progress.
- When working with local communities, considers the specific context and approaches this from an intersectional lens (reflecting on the diKerent, overlapping forms of discrimination that people in the local area may face).
- Has lived experience of intersecting forms of discrimination, who will be attentive to power dynamics, language diKerences and other cultural nuances.
- See evaluation as a shared, ongoing process, and views art as a space for dialogue, solidarity and a creative way of challenging inequalities.
- Is open to talking about mental health and wellbeing, supported by a Mental Health Advisor and the Participation Advisory Board.
- Can lead the project within the given timeline and budget (with the support of the Assistant Curator: Participation).
For more information, visit Gasworks.
