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Are you a writer, maker, movement artist, or seeker looking to develop your work and practice, while also gaining skills in manual labour within a community?

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The Grafting Residencies are a meeting point between manual craft and artistic practice. Each residency has a dedicated research focus, oscillating between construction, land-work, building, and the imaginative and embodied research of the artist. 

 

In March 2024, ‘Heart of Stone’, the first-ever Grafting Residency, focussed on exploring the material of stone physically, metaphorically, and expressively. The group worked together to dismantle an old stone building, carefully organising and redistributing the stone across the site. Alongside the manual work, participants gathered every morning and early evening in the studio to explore the book ‘Iron John’ by Robert Bly, fostering conversations and expressively exploring what it means to be a man in this time.​

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