Want to develop your practice, but unsure how to “make the leap”?

Over the past three years, the Rupture team has worked with over 1,000 international artists at all stages of their careers, providing a prolific platform for artistic growth and collaboration.

We meet each artist where they need to be met, and provide the time, space, and rigor to examine and expand individual practices.

Kate and Sally are available for Individual Practice Mentoring coaching sessions, which are held via zoom or in person, working one on one.

Sessions with Sally are £75 VAT inclusive for 50 minutes individually, or six sessions for £375 VAT inclusive paid in advance (one session free!). Sessions with Kate are £98 per session or 6 sessions for £490.

Unsure if Practice Mentoring is right for you? All prospective clients meet with Kate or Sally for a free 20 minute consultation to confirm that it is a good fit for everyone.

One-on-One Practice Mentoring


"Sally and Kate have been fabulous mentors so far! I feel like they have given me a sense of direction after I had come to a natural stop in my art-making and their emphasis on inner work has been particularly illuminating. Would 100% recommend. Verity, 2024

The insights and conversations from the workshop continue to resonate in my own practice… I left the workshop feeling so connected to my authentic artist self, like magic."

Workshop attendee 2024

Practice can be a powerful thing. It drives creative expression. It can feel distant and undefinable. Kate and their partner in practice, Sally will share what they have learned about life in the generative. They will explain how everyone, even with no training, can build a framework to support the urge and impulse to make and use inspiration and reference to find the individual  generative which leads to the new.

We consider the questions:

What is it to BE an artist?

What IS practice?

WHY and HOW we make and what steps that can be taken to build and expand an individual sustainable practice.

Examining & Expanding Your Practice Workshops

Artist crits are often absent from our professional practices post education, so following the success of our group crits during our open call shows and residencies, we're currently focusing the energies of the studio on artists developing their individual practices.

Alongside bespoke practice mentoring, we have found crits to be the most powerful tool to help artists at all stages of their careers. The crits will be held in the intimacy of our back studio space, where Kate and Sally will lead the sharing of work and supportive discussion with other artists.

Please bring 1 piece of work or images of the work and a packed lunch.

SparkCrits

“The atmosphere of involvement was refreshing—where my voice was heard and valued. I felt a sense of responsibility for my work and gained tremendous motivation to continue pushing boundaries. The critique event expanded my perspective on my artistic identity, allowing me the freedom to discuss my art openly”.

Anna Kiparis, 2024

Here at RuptureXIBIT, we offer artists an affordable space in which to expand and define their practice during a four-week intensive mentoring residency concluding with an open studio event. This is an opportunity to push your practice and show experimental and unresolved work and talk about it across disciplines and communities devoid of hierarchy. Experimental means experimental to you: how you ask more of your practice.

We accept proposals based on the artist’s desire to develop through experimenting and showing. RuptureXIBIT is interested in the new and believes the new comes from an engagement with a willingness to stretch, push, and fail. We are a lab, a workout space, a place to try things you are unsure of. We are your trampoline.

 We’re currently accepting residency proposals for our 350 sq. ft. High Street shop-front gallery. This intensive mentoring residency consists of four weeks of studio/gallery space, plus four 90 minute mentoring sessions and the opportunity to be part of our studio community. It includes access to our workshops and group crits and the more informal support that comes with working from the studio. Plus, we offer promotion of the residency and open studio across numerous platforms and full support from our experienced in-house team.

Places are limited - get more details and apply here

Ready for more?
Discover our Intensive Mentoring Residency

Once a quarter, we will host Invitational Artists in Residence.

These residencies offer space and time for artists with established practices to interrogate or try something out.

Invitational Resident Artists are required as a condition of their month long residency only to give one artist’s talk and hold one open studio.

No final work needs to be produced, the artist can choose to hold a show if they would like to.

Know someone who this is the perfect fit for? Nominate an artist now.

Invitational Artist in Residence Program

Testimonials from our Mentoring Workshops & Sessions

  • “The critique event expanded my perspective on my artistic identity, allowing me the freedom to discuss my art openly. It also sparked a curiosity to explore my work through performance and mixed media. Kate and Sally's dedication to what they do at Rupture is a pure joy and an inspiration. Thank you for creating a space where artists can thrive and be celebrated. This experience has ignited my passion to continue my artistic journey with newfound confidence and creativity.”

    - Anna SparkCrit Attendee

  • "It’s been a wonderful experience to exhibit at Rupture. It truly is a space for art. I’m especially impressed by the critique session Rupture organized; we got to share insights about our works. It was very supportive and helpful."

    Boyuan, Rupturist, Crit atendee, 2024

  • “Being part of the Lawless Imagination exhibition has been a transformative experience for me as a young artist. The gallery team's level of involvement and enthusiasm has left a lasting impression. I wish more galleries embraced such deep exploration of artists' universes and personalities. The atmosphere of involvement was refreshing—where my voice was heard and valued. I felt a sense of responsibility for my work and gained tremendous motivation to continue pushing boundaries. The critique event expanded my perspective on my artistic identity, allowing me the freedom to discuss my art openly. It also sparked a curiosity to explore my work through performance and mixed media. Kate, Sally, and Olivia's dedication to what they do at Rupture is a pure joy and an inspiration. Thank you for creating a space where artists can thrive and be celebrated. This experience has ignited my passion to continue my artistic journey with newfound confidence and creativity.”

    Anna, Rupturist.

  • "I am so grateful for the chance to work with Kate. She is a fierce, committed and loving mentor who brings both a deeply thoughtful and deeply felt approach to the work. She is pushing and stretching me! As a therapist and spiritual director myself, I particularly appreciate her psycho/spiritual intelligence and sensitivity, which is helping the way I come to my creativity be better informed by my own inner process. Be ready to be turned inside-out!"

    Annette Kayew Mentee 2024

  • "I first encountered RuptureXIBIT through Turps, when Kate gave a talk and then the residency opportunities. The first conversation we had at the interview started as I’m not interested in what works you would make but in what ways you would play. This has shaped my approach to spaces - not as sites of production but a training space".

    Mentee, 2024

  • "When I read the blurb for Kate’s mentoring session is exactly where I am at the moment. I feel a disconnect or there’s a distance between me and my work, at the moment it isn’t there. Need to fill that gap and want to be and settle more into me. I came to this place to think about texts alongside the practice, honing in / focusing in more, how I push the core - the things that I understand and how it sits in the world. With this space - I want to get to the core and know what I value".

    Mentee, 2024

  • "With Sally & Kate Being part of this mentoring program has encouraged me to explore and challenge myself in new ways, and I feel so lucky to bump into your mentoring programme and to have so much growth within a few sessions, not just artistically but personally too. I leave every conversation feeling lifted and open and encouraged. I’ve never manifested performances before, I feel I was able to challenge myself and experiment outside of my comfort zone and push my boundaries—all made possible through your guidance and support. how to foster and protect that space where vulnerability would occur and to hold it. There have been so many questions that have occurred for me to ask about myself and the practice and is a constant in conversation".

    Mentee, 2024

  • One thing that I’m really grateful for looking back on the past few months - is that it opened up my understanding of the importance of fostering relationships. I came from where I’m quite comfortable working on my own, like to lock myself in a room, holding up my protective shield. But this program has opened me to the relational part of people, realising that’s what life really is - that relationship with people who are around and to foster what and who that is. I’m still processing."

    Yuhong, Mentee, 2024

  • ""There were a number of reasons I decided to sign up for a short course of mentoring with Kate Howe; I had recently completed a MA at the RCA and was very much feeling out on a limb; I had an up-coming solo show and the opportunity for guidance and support from a real live Gallerist was too good to pass up! I could not have been more pleased… The three sessions took place over an 8 month period to tie in with varying developments in my practise and each had a different emphasis – the planning stage of a solo show; the development of a new body of work and the execution. All were met with enthusiasm by Kate who was brimming with ideas, references, suggestions for materials, technical advice and fine tuning and I highly recommend this experience for anyone who desires to better their artistic journey."

    Annie, Mentee, 2024

  • "The Mentoring Sessions with RuptureXIBIT has helped me focus on my Art Practice. I am a SEN Mum who has a lot to deal with. I am also a Tutor of Arts for SEN children who cannot access education in school. My practice had kept flatlining. It has been very exciting and pleasing to see this contemporary and experimental artspace being locally. I very much appreciate the RuptureXIBIT Manifesto, this is right up my street. I had enjoyed visiting art shows in this space and when offered the Mentoring I felt this to be a great opportunity. This Mentoring has helped my practice very much. I met with Kate Howe and Sally Minns where the Mentoring sessions have been with Sally. This has helped me keep focus and I have been both creating and expanding. This is great for my mind and being. Sally Minns is very experienced. I very much look forward to meeting with her in this amazing environment. I have been able to talk through my work, I am asked questions that help me understand what I am doing. It is great to chat about art, culture and research in relation to my practice and otherwise."

    Susan, Mentee, 2024

  • "Sally and Kate have been fabulous mentors so far! I feel like they have given me a sense of direction after I had come to a natural stop in my art-making and their emphasis on inner work has been particularly illuminating. Would 100% recommend!"

    Verity, Mentee, 24

  • "As an emerging artist needing an overview of my practice the one-to-one sessions I have had with Kate Howe recently have been incredibly useful and inspiring. Kate has extensive experience and has guided me in many areas of my practice, including rethinking my artist statement and bio. They have also helped me to consider what’s important in my practice by defining my motivations and processes and they have given me invaluable advice. Above all they have enabled me to discover my authentic voice as an artist and I am excited about the work that is emerging from this process. I would definitely recommend them."

    Shirley, Mentee, 2024

  • "I had felt very stuck and spasmodic with my art work for quite a while and very frustrated with myself ..not really having established as regular an art practice as I would have liked since art college many years ago.. I found the mentoring support from Sally gave me hope and encouragement that I could get my ‘ engine going ‘ again and after a few false starts im now feeling more dedicated to my practice and I do mostly half an hour to an hour or so soon after waking in the morning and as I do this it encourages the momentum…So I would highly recommend mentoring with Sally, having been very supported,and encouraged along the way with my creative journey".

    Mentee, 2024

  • “Mentoring with Kate and Sally has changed the way I think, approach and feel about Art. They have helped me discover what I am trying to say and how that connects with the world; understanding what ‘practice’ actually means and igniting a self-respect towards it. There is always humour alongside the serious intensity of the work which makes it a pleasure to be with them. I always leave vibrating with ideas and excited to give myself the space to explore them. A Wonderful experience “

    Rebecca Lacey, Mentee, 2024