At a Glance
- Tasks: Explore your creative ideas in a supportive studio environment.
- Company: JOY! Collective, a multidisciplinary creative studio in East London.
- Benefits: Access to materials, tools, mentoring, and a vibrant creative community.
- Other info: Join us for a summer celebration to showcase your work in progress.
- Why this job: Unleash your creativity and experiment without limits in a unique space.
- Qualifications: Open to all artists with ambitious ideas and a desire to explore.
We’re opening up our studio for an artist residency. The residency will run from 28th September – 23rd October 2026. Our East London studio is a place for making. It’s filled with materials, tools, books, workshop facilities, and plenty of space to experiment. We’d love to share it with someone who has an idea they’ve never quite had the room, time, or resources to explore.
Creative space in London is increasingly hard to come by, especially the kind that gives you the freedom to think big, make a mess, and try something new. We know how valuable that can be, so we’d like to offer ours. Maybe you’ve always wanted to create something far larger than your own studio would allow. Maybe there’s a material or process you’ve been curious to experiment with. Maybe you’ve been carrying around an idea for years, waiting for the right moment to bring it to life.
We’re not looking for polished outcomes or finished masterpieces. We’re far more interested in curiosity, ambition, and the creative process itself. This is an unpaid residency. What we can offer is space, resources, guidance, mentoring, and the freedom to dedicate time to an idea that might not otherwise be possible. This is your project, and the residency is designed to support self-directed exploration and experimentation.
Throughout the residency, we’ll invite members of our creative community into the studio for appointment-only open sessions, giving them the opportunity to see your work in progress and hear more about your process. We’ll round things off with a summer celebration in the studio, where you’ll have the chance to share what you’ve been exploring.
If you’ve got an idea that’s been quietly following you around, something ambitious, slightly ridiculous, beautifully impractical, or completely unexpected, we’d genuinely love to hear about it.
About: As a multidisciplinary creative studio, we create bespoke artworks, installations and experiences. Founded by artists, designers and makers, with a shared mission to put the ‘creative’ back into the creative industry; we’re all about leading with innovative ideas and letting our creativity guide our unique approach.
JOY! Factory Arch 367-368 Geffrye St London, E2 8HZ +44 (0) 203 950 3407
JOY! Collective Artist Residency employer: ArtDeadline.Com
At JOY! Collective, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters creativity and innovation in our vibrant East London studio. Our residency offers artists the unique opportunity to explore their ideas in a supportive environment filled with resources and mentorship, encouraging personal growth and artistic experimentation. Join us to be part of a community that values curiosity and the creative process, where your ambitions can truly take flight.
