High Street Happenings Artist Residency Programme

Round 3 is now closed.

Applications were open from Tuesday 9th April, and close Sunday 28th April 2024

Applications will be reviewed by the panel W/C 29th April 2024

Applicants will be informed of the outcome W/C Monday 6th May 2024

Residency runs from 13th May - 4th August 2024

Exhibition runs from 2nd - 25th August 2024

Round 2

Selected artist: Tope Olufemi

Tope Olufemi is a multi-disciplinary artist based in North London. Their work spans sound, photography and journalism. They are mainly interested in electronic music - the ways that we organise to experience it, and the experiments undertaken in its creation. Their writing has been featured in i-D, Crack, and Mixmag alongside other publications. They recently contributed sound design to Simisoluwa Akande’s ‘The Archive: Queer Nigerians’. Through workshop facilitation and their club night ‘Happy Survival’, they aim to encourage others to contribute to the canon of the Black diasporic experimental/electronic music through creation and participation.

Upcoming:

Workshops to be announced

3rd - 26th May 2024, Tope Olufemi High Street Happenings Exhibition

Round 1

Selected artist: Abi Ola

Abi Ola is a multidisciplinary artist that specialises in oil and acrylic painting, drawing, installation, photography, screen printing, and fabric collage. Her paintings are often of clothing patterns, sometimes with a faceless figure present. Abi is inspired by old family clothing, William Morris textiles, African Dutch wax textiles, traditional African textiles, emojis, her imagination and Nature.

20th and 21st January 2024, Abstract Fabric Collage Painting Workshops

2nd - 25th February 2024, Abi Ola High Street Happenings Exhibition