Time + Space to Practice.
We run a programme of residencies for artists who want to focus on creative practice and foster a closer relationship to nature.
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Praktyka Residency
A ten day residency to focus on your creative practice. Accommodation costs provided by Praktyka.
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DIY Residency
Design your own residency to suit your needs. For those who have funding in place.
Praktyka Residencies
Meet some of the artists who have taken part in our residencies so far.
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November ,2025
Practice for me is a sort of every day study.
It’s unobserved and exists outside the usual dominant currencies of what has Value.
I’m not so interested in making Art Objects, but in undoing, discomposing, unraveling, unmaking, thinking.
Even when I am alone, it’s not a solitary practice. I always feel like I’m thinking with my friends, I’m in an open conversation.
Practice is social, fellowship, gathering, kinship, friendship (even if when they’re not in the room with me, they are.) It’s always a sort of sharing.
I have friends who work across categories that academia tries to keep separate: physics, geography, maths, poetry, music..
In shared practice those separations are undone and it becomes many-voiced.
I suppose I’m resistant to the word ‘creative’ because I aways feel I’m in the midst of a rhythmic making and unmaking that is both creative and de-creative concurrently. It’s something to do with how the force of poetry undoes the rules and regulations of prose.
It’s a convusive force. It messes things up. Practice is the work of undoing separation. Inseparability and entanglement is its aim.
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August 2024
“I explore what it is to be human: the ordinary-extraordinary stories that connect us to each other and the worlds within and around us.”
Jill wrote a blog post about her residency - click here to read more.
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February, 2025.
“What does ‘practice’ mean to you? “
“For me , one way of practicing my art is to take the time to give a small idea space to run.
A brief thought that rattles around in your head.
What if you combined these images?
What if you shot with this setup?
It is the ‘what if?’ that starts the process, but the following through that make sit practice.
It is the freedom to experiment , to find ideas during the shoot, and in the edit.
In this sense, practicing is like play, there is no end goal other than to see what comes out, and to learn from that. “
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Buckland Brewer, Bideford
EX39 5NA
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