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Autumn Open Studios, 7 November 2026

hARTslane Autumn Open Studios

Saturday 7th November 2026, 2-7pm

FULLY BOOKED

Deadline to sign up:  Tuesday 3rd November or when slots are filled

As part of hARTslane Artist Membership, we host Open Studios twice a year — free and open to all artist members. It’s an opportunity to receive peer and professional feedback on your work in a relaxed, supportive environment.

About the Day
This session will include a Feedback Speed Dating activity: Over the course of an hour each artist receives several two-minute feedback rounds — a quick-fire way to gather fresh perspectives on your work.
Come prepared – bring a notepad and pen if you’d like to take notes.

Tables and plinths will be provided. Please note that each artist may display one piece of work, and artists are responsible for their own work and any equipment needed to present it safely.

There are 8 places available, allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Schedule for the day:

–  2-3pm, Artists install their work

–  3-4pm, Speed dating feedback session: a lively and engaging format where artists give and receive brief feedback from their peers

– 4-5:30pm, Crits; each artist has 10 minutes to present and talk about their work, followed by discussion. The crit will be guided by artist Chris Marshall LG. Here is a link to Chris’ work:

–  5:30 – 7pm, Open to the public for informal conversations with the artists about their work

More info on hARTslane’s Artist Membership and how to join here. 
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hARTslane and The London Group
hARTslane is proud to have partnered with The London Group. Each open studio crit session will be facilitated by an artist member from The London Group. 

“The London Group is the UK’s longest-running and most prestigious artists’ collective

The London Group was set up in 1913 by thirty two artists including Walter Sickert, Jacob Epstein, Wyndham Lewis, David Bomberg, Sylvia Gosse, Ethel Sands and Henri Gaudier Brzeska, with the aim of creating a powerful artist-run group to act as a counter-balance to institutions such as the Royal Academy. The founding group created a unique structure for an organisation, that has gone on to successfully nurture the careers of many of Britain’s best-known artists.” You can read more about the history of the Group here.

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DIY Residencies Online presentation + workshop

Dates and Times

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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Promotional poster with a bold, DIY aesthetic for a course titled Making a Buck Without Selling Out, presented by hARTslane. The background is a rough-textured, rusty red with torn paper-style beige panels layered on top. At the top, the black text reads: hARTslane Presents:. Below, in large capital letters, the title is displayed: MAKING A BUCK WITHOUT SELLING OUT. The typeface is heavy and hand-cut in appearance, giving the design a raw, grassroots feel. There are no images or dates—this version focuses solely on the title and presenter.

Making a Buck Without Selling Out – Open for registration! Next course: January 2027

Promotional poster with a bold, DIY aesthetic for a course titled Making a Buck Without Selling Out, presented by hARTslane. The background is a rough-textured, rusty red with torn paper-style beige panels layered on top. At the top, the black text reads: hARTslane Presents:. Below, in large capital letters, the title is displayed: MAKING A BUCK WITHOUT SELLING OUT. The typeface is heavy and hand-cut in appearance, giving the design a raw, grassroots feel. There are no images or dates—this version focuses solely on the title and presenter.

Making A Buck Without Selling Out is open for registration!

Next course: January 2027

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 7 online group sessions, weekly activities with tangible outcomes, peer review, written feedback, and collective learning, a workbook to map your progression, resources, tools, and 1-to-1 tutorials to review your action plan.

Find out more and register on the course page

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hARTslane Artist Membership

‘Love Shack’ Artist Members’ Annual Exhibition 2025

‘Plateforms’ Artist Members’ Annual Exhibition 2026

Open Studios, May 2026

 ‘Silent Forms’ by Ted Brunning, window artwork 2025

hARTslane Artist Membership

hARTslane Artist Membership is open to artists at any stage of their career and from any background, offering opportunities to showcase and develop their work while being part of an exciting and supportive creative community. We keep our membership affordable and accessible, starting from £4/month. But as hARTslane is a not- for profit art space, any additional or larger contrbution will help keep our gallery running.

You’ll get:

 

    How to become a member:

    The membership is open to all artists and creatives. Please choose one of the following options.

    • From £5 / month via Pay Pal 
    • £44 / year via Direct Debit. Please send us an email requesting more information.

    If you face barriers to becoming an Artist Member, you can request a bursary membership.

    ** Membership Terms **

    In the case of monthly membership, payments will be due monthly and will renew automatically month by month. In the case of annual membership, we will invite you
    to renew before your membership comes to an end.

    You will be eligible for a full refund of a monthly or annual payment if you cancel your membership within 14 days of that payment being made. We do not offer refunds for cancellations of memberships after this time except as described below.

    We reserve the right to make changes to the terms of membership. We may make minor changes to reflect any changes in relevant laws or to implement adjustments that will have no significant effect on your membership benefits. For more significant changes we will notify you in advance and you may then contact us to cancel the membership before the changes take effect. Donations will not be refunded.

    All membership benefits are subject to availability, and membership is non-transferable. For more information on how we look after your personal information please see our Cookies & Privacy Policy.

    Upcoming events:

    Window Artwork 2026 Open Call – Deadline 10 September

    Autumn Open Studios & Launch of the Window Artwork  – Saturday 7 November 2026

    Artist Members Annual Exhibition 2027  – March 2027

    Spring Open Studios – May 2027

    I have really enjoyed taking part in the open studio. Being able to give and receive feedback directly and openly has been very informative, and I found it helpful for considering how others view the work.

    It also gave me the chance to look at other artists’ work and see my own practice from a different angle. That kind of exchange feels useful, especially as I am working alone for long periods.

    So far, the main event I have taken part in is the open studio, but it has already felt like a positive and encouraging part of the membership. – Siméon Artamonov

     

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