Mentorship for our placed creatives – a free resource
Curators’ talk: Josh C. Wright with Jane Bhoyroo and Ella Cronk, Yorkshire Sculpture International
Emerging curator Josh C. Wright in conversation with Jane Bhoyroo and Ella Cronk, curators from Yorkshire Sculpture International. Organised by Hypha Studios, a new charity matching artists with free workspace in vacant properties across the UK. Josh C. Wright to occupied a former Peacocks in Catford, and put on a sculptural exhibition in collaboration with other artists (April 28th to May 1st 2022)
Owl on the Roof 121 with David Ward, Fundraising Consultant
David Ward is a fundraising consultant and Artistic Director of Northern Opera Group. He spent a number of years working in senior fundraising positions for organisations including Northern Ballet, Opera North and the Royal Northern College of Music, before going freelance in 2018. He works with organisations across art forms, and across the country, on fundraising strategies and grant writing. His current clients include Complicité, Trowbridge Town Hall and Magpie Dance
David Griffiths 121 with Rob Clayton documentary photographer
Hypha Studios introduced documentary photographer David Griffiths to documentary photographer and maker of the highly acclaimed ‘Estate’ project (1990/1, 2019), Rob Clayton. Rob Clayton is a full time freelance photographer with over twenty years experience. He specialises in producing imagery for design agencies, corporate companies and publishing companies, while continuing to pursue his own documentary art photography with a specialism in photographing the changing British social landscape
Clare Packham 121 with Michelle Payne, Director and playwright
Hypha Studios hosted creative: emerging Director Clare Packham has a 1-2-1 with Michelle Payne, a director and playwright from Essex – recently working on artist-led programme Future Forms with the Donmar Warehouse. Clare asked her about how to start working in the industry after graduating from university in a pandemic, what she should be doing to building up her portfolio, and any other advice for emerging theatre directors.
Rosa- Johan Uddoh 121 with Katharine Stout, Director of Focal Point Gallery
Hypha Studios hosted Rosa-Johan Uddoh in a temporary studio in 22- 24 Camden Passage in Islington. Here she is in conversation with Katharine Stout, the Director of Focal Point Gallery to discuss her upcoming solo show at Focal Point Gallery in Southend “Practice Makes Perfect” and her response to the current debates about black history within the National Curriculum and urban space.
Tangle Immersive 121 with Gill Wildman, Director of Upstarter Bristol
Gill is a creative business mentor & facilitator. Prior to this, she had a strategic design innovation consultancy with clients including BBC, Microsoft, Facebook and Oculus. Gill and Tangle Immersive talked about their shop space and what this means for Tangle- Harry and Chris’s backgrounds and their visions for what they can do together. What it would take to get them to what feels like success: how to generate enough new work, how to use the space as an incubator, and creating a set of experiments through portfolio projects as seeding examples, create multidisciplinary space for VR, and to become a community studio.
Molly Sedgwick 121 with Noelle Collins Curator Towner Art Gallery
We set Molly up with Noelle to have a conversation in her pop up studio and gallery in Eastbourne to give her an overview on career prospects, the art world, selling work, how to start thinking about next steps in terms of sustaining her practice, making work and potentially opening her own studio up.
