Residences
We host a number of artist residences to give exceptional artists access to space, facilities and resources for free.
As part of our long-standing relationship with Liverpool School of Art and Design, we provide new graduates with a residency space at our studios for a 6 month period. In that time, they have access to our facilities and we work with them to help support their development through events.
Ashley Sands & Ella Crabtree
As part of our long standing relationship with LJMU, we provide new graduates with a residency space at our studios for a 6 month period. In that time, they have access to our facilities and we work with them to help support their development through events.
Our current LJMU graduate residents are Ella Crabtree and Ashley Sands, a collective who’s collaborative practice explores post-human studies, AL and the digital realm.
Find our more here.
Space Raiders
When we have gaps in our programme, rather than leaving our gallery space empty, we open the space up to artists in the city to experiment with, test out creating larger work at scale, or exhibit existing work in.
During 2020, we offered our gallery to five artists and groups for a two-week period. Unfortunately, during covid-19 restrictions and a second national lockdown, we have had to suspend our Space Raiders programme till 2021.
Ellie Towers & Reece Griffiths
Merging the virtual with reality, Ellie and Reece wanted to bring their virtual world to life. Over two weeks, they created a physical narrative touching on the benefits of experiencing green-spaces virtually, how hive-knowledge and commodities derived from technology are now, through the pandemic, exhibiting overtly evolutionary properties, and creating intimate and personal experiences through the digital.
The digital output of their project, Walkies can be found here.
Focal Studios
Focal Studios propose to use the gallery space to further develop and experiment with sculpture and 3D projection, building on the work they have produced for Wake the Dragon: an event commissioned by Arts Council England and Culture Liverpool (Without Walls) to be performed at St Luke’s ‘Bombed Out’ church on September 27th 2020.
View Focal Studios here.
Dan Waine & Mali Draper
In light of their upcoming exhibition with OUTPUT gallery in January 2021, for which we need a space to develop and make some new work, involving building, testing and practicing aspects of the exhibition. This opportunity would be perfect for us to test out some of the practical elements of their show. They proposed to use the TRS gallery to build a shallow pool that would be interactive with sound and film projection.
View their work here.
Lydia Griffiths
After being unable to create her envisioned degree show piece due to the first covid lockdown in the UK, Lydia proposes to use the gallery space to create an experimental light installation as she had planned to do for her degree show.
View Lydia’s website.
Jon Edgley
John will use the gallery walls to experiment creating sketches at scale, something he has not been able to do for two years due to not being unable to afford a studio space and being confined to the limitations of a sketch book.
View Jon’s Instagram.