Category: Show in What’s On

DIY Residencies Online presentation + workshop

Dates and Times

Friday 27 March 1-2:30pm BOOK

Thursday 23 April, 6-7:30pm BOOK

Friday 15 May 2026, 1-2:30pm BOOK

Cancellation policy:
Refunds are available up to 24 hours before the event begins. After that, while we’re unable to issue a refund, we’ll gladly offer you a place in a future similar session.

hARTslane Presents:
DIY Residencies

Online presentation + workshop

Take control of your creative journey and design the residency experience you deserve.

DIY Residencies is an interactive online session combining a concise presentation with a reflective workshop, created for artists who want to reclaim agency over their time, focus, and working conditions. Instead of waiting for competitive or inaccessible opportunities, this session offers inspiration and practical tools to help you design and plan your own self-organised residency.

This presentation + workshop is relevant to all creative disciplines, including visual artists, writers, performance artists and musicians.

What to expect

A clear introduction to DIY / artist-initiated residencies
Real examples and case studies drawn from professional practice
Practical tips and tools to organise your own residency
Guided reflection time to start planning your own idea
Access to slides, worksheets, and other resources.

Format & details

Format: Online presentation + reflective workshop
Duration: 90 minutes
Fee: £15 per participant
Platform: Google Meet

Participants will leave with practical resources and a clearer sense of how to create protected time, dedicated focus, and space for experimentation within their own circumstances.

Session leader

Cristiana Bottigella is an art producer with over 25 years’ experience supporting artists to develop their practice, access resources, and create meaningful cultural impact. Her work focuses on socially engaged art, artist-led infrastructures, and sustainability.

She is the founder and director of hARTslane Gallery (South East London) and a director at the London School of Muralism. From 2000–2009, she ran the residency programme at the Pistoletto Foundation in Italy. In 2024, she authored the DIY Residencies guide for the Arquest website and currently co-runs Making a Buck Without Selling Out, a six-week course on artist practice development.

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Art Education, Opportunities, Workshop

Making a Buck Without Selling Out – Open for registration!

Making A Buck Without Selling Out is open for registration!

Next course: April 2026

Making a Buck Without Selling Out is hARTslane’s new course on artists’ professional practice, with hARTslane co-director Cristiana Bottigella and guest tutor Sophia Kosmaoglou, founder of ART&CRITIQUE and co-founder of the Radical Pedagogy Research Group.

We created this course because we recognise that there’s a gap in art education—one that rarely prepares artists for the realities of building a practice in today’s culture industry.

The art world’s economy is full of contradictions. Artists are expected to be visionaries, provocateurs, and entrepreneurs all at once. We’re told to challenge the system—while also expected to succeed within it. Artists must survive and keep making work within a capitalist economy. That means negotiating visibility, marketing, and income—without selling out.

This course confronts that tension. It asks:

What does it mean to prioritise artistic integrity over marketability?
How do you stay connected and visible without getting drawn into competition and isolation?
What does autonomy look like when you also need to pay the rent?

This programme isn’t a checklist or a formula. It’s a space to ask difficult questions about what keeps your work going, what threatens to undermine it, and how to protect your autonomy while expanding your networks and building community. You’ll also reflect on what success means for you, and what it takes—emotionally, materially, ethically—to keep your practice sustainable over time.

You’ll get 6 online sessions, weekly activities with tangible outcomes, peer review, written feedback, and collective learning, a workbook to map your progression, resources, tools, and one-to-one tutorials to review your action plan.

Find out more and register on the course page

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Art Education, Opportunities

Jane Foole – Collective in Residence

Jane Foole is comprised of four artists:
Rachel Lonsdale – Sarah-Athina Nahas – Max Melvin – Michal Adamczewski

They met at various stages of their artists journey.
Since then they have been fashioning an overdone piece of elaborate
entertainment, a selection box, alchemy.
We swing in differing stages of performance art.

Jane Foole is in residence with hARTslane Gallery from April 2025 onwards.

Want to perform alongside us? Keep an eye out for the next open call

NEXT EVENT

I placed my eyes, inside my palms. Jane Foole + PJ entertainment exhibition, 28/03/26

Location: hARTslane

Artists: Rachel Lonsdale, Sarah-Athina Nahas, Max Melvin, Michal Adamczewski, Sami Daccache, Sonny Barthley, El Gold, Yulin Huang, Rebecca Foulger, Luna Pawlowski, Pepe Mason-Bradshaw, Rosie Aisher, Nicholas Scott, Ethan Murphy, Otto Hodgkinson, Crystal Ma, Han Gao, Jemima Murray, Sam Nathan.

PAST EVENTS

Jane Foole + PJ exhibition. 26/11/25

Location: hARTslane

Artists: Rachel Lonsdale, Sarah-Athina Nahas, Max Melvin, Michal Adamczewski, Crystal Ma, Ethan Murphy, Euan Gubbins, Otto Hodgkinson, Pepe-Mason Bradshaw, Rosie Aisher

A voice, a mouth, a throat, 28/10/25

Location: The Ivy House, Nunhead

Artists: Rachel Lonsdale, Sarah-Athina Nahas, Max Melvin, Michal Adamczewski, Sami Daccache, Riley Hamshaw-Mills, Alexandra Baybutt, Mary Paterson, Glop

Rockin’ the wall, 19/09/2025

Location: hARTslane Gallery

Artists: Rachel Lonsdale, Sarah-Athina Nahas, Max Melvin, Michal Adamczewski, Sami Daccache, Chloe Cooper, Rojano Mohammadzadeh, Gabriel Barrios Lumbreras, Mary Hutcinson, Ted Brunning.

I crashed the choir, 13/07/25

Location: hARTslane Gallery

Artists: Rachel Lonsdale, Sarah-Athina Nahas, Max Melvin, Michal Adamczewski.