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"We encourage, enable, develop, mentor, facilitate, empower and support local creative arts practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds." Since our Foundation, in September 2014, we have staged over 160 exhibitions showcasing a varied body of work, by artists both emerging and established. Encompassing a diverse and multi-disciplinary range of artistic practices including: Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Illustration, Photography, Sound, Video and Performance Art. Our overarching ‘ Philosophy ’ is to actively encourage, enable, develop, mentor, facilitate, empower and support local creative arts practitioners from a wide range of background with a priority to engage in discussion around accessibility within the arts in relation to mental health, financial hardship and institutional bias. We have also provided work placements through a number of initiatives such as Erasmus +, Gecko programme, University placements, ACTIVATE and Learnplay. We first and foremost are artist mentors who support our collective of studio holders to develop their practise and run their own programme in our spaces. We also actively develop and manage projects in partnerships with multiple stakeholders which actively question and support regeneration in the locale through the arts, integrating people powered producing into the method of delivery.…