Show with us!
Apply for our four-week Intensive Mentoring Residency concluding with an Open Studio Event.
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.
We have a limited number of months available, so apply now as spaces are filling up fast!
RuptureXIBIT (+Studio) is an artist-run space in London, a 30-minute train ride from Waterloo, 20 minutes from Clapham Junction, and steps away from the station in Hampton Wick. We exist to encourage the development of artistic practice in all disciplines, focusing on showing rather than selling. While artists are welcome to sell their work, our purpose is to highlight the potential for growth that comes from conversations that arise during a residency and Open Studio.
Suitable for solo applicants
Self-contained 350 sq.ft. High Street shop front studio/gallery
Four 90 minute mentoring sessions
Open Studio Event
Highly competitive rates
Museum lighting
Promotion of your show across numerous platforms
Support from an experienced in-house team
RuptureXIBIT is shared as a flexible laboratory space giving artists an affordable place to expand and define their practice by responding to their interests, the space, locality and opportunity, to define their practice by showing their experimental and resolved work and talking 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 pushing their practice.
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.
To apply for an four-week Intensive Mentoring Residency concluding with an Open Studio Event we require the following:
A written proposal for your residency (up to 500 words). This describes your concept for your residency and open studio event.
Up to ten images of work. This is a portfolio of current work.
A statement (up to 500 words) about why or how your practice will benefit from a mentoring residency at the RuptureXIBIT(Studio). This is where you can talk about how you hope to push yourself and your practice by using and showing in the space, and talk about experimental ideas
We ask that you include the following with the proposal, should we accept your application:
An artist bio (max 250 words)
A brief description of your current work and practice (150 - 200 words)
A brief description of your proposal for use on our website and social media (up to 250 words)
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An Intensive Mentoring Residency includes:
-A four week residency in the front studio/gallery,
-An Open Studio Event on the final weekend of the residency
-Four 90 minute mentoring sessions with our resident artists Sally Minns and Kate Howe
-Support during your residency by our Project Manager
-Advertising of your Residency and Open Studio on our Social Media
-Coverage in our newsletter
-Advertisement of your open studio on prominent art sites including Art Rabbit and others
-Use of our Eventbrite booking system
-An opportunity to talk about your work to a wide and diverse audience of art lovers
-You can hold events in the space during your open studio. People hold talks, lectures, podcasts, catalogue launches, crits, drawing days, and workshops
-The emphasis is on the development of your practice and professional skills. We are not a traditional gallery
-Any sales during or resulting from the residency or open studio should be processed by the artist. However, RuptureXIBIT will take a 20% commission on every sale.
What do I need to provide?- All materials including fixings during residency and open studio
- Requirement to regularly record your work in progress and share with our in house marketing team weekly.
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Shop-front Gallery: £875 for four weeks.
- includes a structured marketing package
£100 refundable deposit
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 have deep ties with the local community who continue to support our Artist's in Residence alongside our artistic community. We choose our Resident Artists based not on the aesthetics of the work but on the strength of creativity and the willingness to push and respond to space in an engaging way."
*In order to accept your images our form requires you to use a Google email address. If this isn’t possible please email info@rupturexibit.com for a form.
