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Please help us support out greedy interns.

Please help us support out greedy interns.

Since June we’ve been working with a team of 12 interns to programme a year of projects, that will help them to develop as creative professionals. We’ve given them budget to create their own projects, are helping them set up their own studio, finding them paying commissions and will be delivering a series of professional development lectures More


Michael Cottage. 'Make love tonight like you mean nothing to one another. Make it hard, make it fast, make it animal. (Afterwards hug eachother)'

Dr. Peter's Tweets. An illustration project.

20/06/11 News
by Gemma Germains

If you’re on Twitter, it’s highly likely that you’ve read one of sex therapist @Dr.PeterThraft’s advice tweets. We like to read them out in the studio when it’s quiet. They’re very rude, but also extremely useful and have benefitted all of our relationships hugely. More


Introducing The Interns #3 Milos Simpraga

Introducing The Interns #3 Milos Simpraga

16/06/11
by Gemma Germains

We’d heard about Milo before we even dreamed up the internship and were really chuffed that he decided to apply for the programme. We were even chuffeder when we received his hand bound portfolio which contained a brilliant variety of graphic and illustrative work. He also tells beautiful stories about growing up on a farm and smuggling his grandfather’s honey. We like that in a co-worker. More


Meet the Interns #2 Emma Hammond.

Meet the Interns #2 Emma Hammond.

15/06/11
by Gemma Germains

Here’s a few words from our second intern, the very brilliant poet Emma Hammond. We’ve been aware of Emma for a while and have been looking to find the perfect project to involve her on for some time. Judging from the blog she, Svea, Milo and Michael are currently working on, we think we’ve found it. More


The Mending Project/ Svea Carney

Introducing our interns. #1 Svea Carney.

Here she is. Intern numero uno. Svea Carney a fresh faced graduate of John Moores University. Svea’s portfolio stood out as it was full of great ideas very astutely executed. The exciting thing about Svea is how she’s able to realise her work in film, paint and even embroidery.  More