We welcome applications from artists at any career stage who respond well to painting but also work within their own media - drawing, painting, installation, sound, sculpture, textiles, ceramics and video are all accepted mediums.

The residency will take place from Monday 5th August until 18th August 2019.

The deadline for applications is 4pm on Monday 29th July. Short-listed artists must be available for interviews during the week of 30th July until 2nd August.

A collective of painters are seeking artists to participate in a 2-week residency in Shift. The residency aims to celebrate our own distinctive approaches to contemporary painting through exhibiting work that prompts critical discussion about what it means to be a painter today. We are proposing a residency that offers artists the opportunity to engage, discuss, provoke and challenge each other within a shared space; a place to network, develop your practice in response to others, and to gain an understanding of working within an interdisciplinary environment. We welcome artists from all disciplines to explore their practice through sharing work with others and to allow others to experience in-progress and completed works.

Shift is an exemplary space for this residency as we want to engage in a challenging environment that isn’t confined to the studio and reaches a wider audience. Within this residency, we aim to explore how each of our practices relates to each other and reveals the different relationships that exist between contemporary practices.

To mark the end of the residency, we will put on a closing event which will display the development of all participating artists work on Friday 16th August.