Wysing Arts Centre is a

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centre and campus for artistic production, experimentation and learning in South

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, England. The centre was established in 1989 and completed a £1.7 million capital development project in 2008. Across the eleven-acre site the centre holds ten buildings, including 24 low-cost artists' studios, a live-work space, specialist new media facilities, a large gallery, education facilities and a 17th-century grade II listed farmhouse which is used as accommodation for residencies and retreats. The main focus of the centre's activities is the international residency programme, but it also hosts temporary exhibitions, retreats, a programme for young artists, semi-permanent sculptural and architectural commissions and works on offsite projects with many other institutions nationally and internationally. It is a registered charity under English law. In 2010 Wysing was invited to join Plus Tate; one of only two of the twenty organisations in the network whose work is focused on process and production rather than on the presentation of extant works. Alongside Plus Tate, Wysing has a number of partnerships in place with organisations including the

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, the Royal Society of Arts, the

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, the

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and the Contemporary Visual Arts Network.

Residencies

* ''Convention T'' – including artists Anna Barham, James Beckett, Michael Dean, Cécile B. Evans, David Osbaldeston, Seb Patane,

Charlotte Prodger Charlotte Prodger (born 1974) is a British artist and film-maker who works with "moving image, printed image, sculpture and writing". Her films include ''Statics'' (2021), ''SaF05'' (2019), ''LHB'' (2017), ''Passing as a great grey owl'' (2017), ...

and Florian Roithmayr * ''The Forest'' – including artists Jonathan Baldock, Edwin Burdis, Emma Hart and Jess Flood-Paddock, and musician Luke Abbott * ''The Mirror'' – including artists Ed Atkins, Nicolas Deshayes, Philomene Pirecki and Elizabeth Price * ''The Cosmos'' – Salvatore Arancio, Flora Parrott, Nilsson Pflugfelder and Stuart Whipps * ''The Department of Overlooked Histories'' – including artists An Endless Supply, Ruth Beale, Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry and Emma Smith * ''The Department of Psychedelic Studies'' – including artists Mark Essen, Hilary Koob-Sassen, Kate Owens, Damien Roach * ''The Department of Wrong Answers'' – including artists Rob Filby, Francesco Pedraglio &

Laure Prouvost Laure Prouvost (born 1978) is a French artist living and working in Antwerp, Belgium. She won the 2013 Turner Prize. In 2019, she represented France at the Venice Biennale with the multi-media work "The Deep Blue Sea Surrounding You". Career Pr ...

, Giles Round and Cally Spooner * ''The Camp For Improbable Thinking'' – including artists Asli Cavusoglu, Andy Holden, Fabiano Marques, Julie Myers, Emily Rosamond and

Bedwyr Williams Bedwyr Williams (born 1974) in St. Asaph is a Welsh artist. He works across varied media including drawing, painting, writing and video.. Biography He studied at St Martins School of Art and Ateliers, Arnhem. In 2004, he won a Paul Hamlyn Awa ...

* ''Communities under Construction'' – including artists A Kassen, Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser, N55,

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, Townley and Bradby and Helen Stratford * ''Wysing Polyphonic: The Ungoverned (guest curated by Anne Duffau)'' – including artists Maëva Berthelot, Whiskey Chow, CRYSTALLMESS, Tanaka Fuego, Hannah Catherine Jones, Rachel Long, LYZZA, mobilegirl, Coby Sey and audio research group AUDINT

Exhibitions

* Jonathan Baldock – ''A Strange Cross Between a Butchers Shop and a Nightclub'' * ''Relatively Absolute'' – including artists Luke Abbott, Salvatore Arancio, Ed Atkins, Jonathan Baldock, Edwin Burdis, Patrick Coyle, Nicolas Deshayes, Jess Flood-Paddock, Emma Hart, Nilsson Pflugfelder, Flora Parrott, Philomene Pirecki, Elizabeth Price and Stuart Whipps * ''Recollect'' including artists Better Futures Forever, Jackie Chettur,

Phil Coy Philip Coy (born 1971) is an English artist and experimental filmmaker known for his public works and films exploring architectures and language. He works across a range of media including sculpture, film, video installation, sound installation, ...

, Sean Edwards, Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, Una Knox, Rosie Pedlow & Joe King. * ''The Starry Rubric Set'' – including artists Marjolijn DijkmAn, Ruth Beale, Nicholas Deshayes, Rob Filby, John Latham, Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, Kate Owens,

, Giles Round * ''Slipped'' – including artists Aaron Angell, Caroline Achaintre, Lucy Conochie, Coco Crampton, Mark Essen, The Grantchester Pottery, Lawrence Leaman, Giles Round, Phil Root and Jesse Wine.

Funding

Wysing Arts Centre is one of Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations. Additional financial support for the programme comes from trusts and foundations including the

Paul Hamlyn Foundation Paul Hamlyn Foundation is a registered charity, and a company limited by guarantee which has been established in its current form since 2004, succeeding an earlier incarnation that was founded in 1987, which itself formalised established philanthr ...

, the Henry Moore Foundation, The Leverhulme Foundation and The Ernest Cooke Trust.

References

External links

Official website

Bourn Village website
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