︎︎︎Residency at R-Urban!
Applications now open for March-May Residencies. Deadline 15th Feburary!
Since Spring 2025, we have been hosting a residency programme at R-Urban.
We offer a free workspace for three months to artists, designers or makers working with urban ecologies, food, community activism and/or circular material practices of innovation, repair or reuse.
What we can provide
Dedicated workspace (5.5m x 2.4m). Access to site amenities including kitchen, compost toilet, workshop space and classroom. You’ll have use of the space as and when you need, 7 days a week from 8am - 6pm.
We share our site with five partners so use of workshop and classroom needs to agreed in advance.
We are offering space but are not currently in a position to offer a stipend.
What we ask from you
3 public workshops open to our community and beyond.
Workshops need to take place at some point during residency and will be hosted with support of R-Urban team.
Application process
We ask you to send us a short application answering a few questions. Please send these as a pdf or word doc + any relevant jpgs/links to rurban@publicworksgroup.net. The deadline is midnight on 15th February 2026. Please reach out if you have any questions.
- Tell us about your practice. (200 words)
- Why do you want a space at R-Urban? (100 words)
- What would you work on whilst you are here? (100 words)
- If you were to run a workshop, what might it be? (50 words)
- Please also send up to 5 images OR 2 mins of video / audio OR a link to a website.
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Previous Residents
Autumn 2025 - Nihal J Singh
“My work spans woodworking, youth and community spaces, and arts activism, often centring collaboration and skill sharing. Many of these ideas emerge directly from children’s conversations, sketches, and play, and my aim is to translate them into thoughtful, collaborative builds.“
@nihal.j.singh
nihaljsingh.github.io
“My work spans woodworking, youth and community spaces, and arts activism, often centring collaboration and skill sharing. Many of these ideas emerge directly from children’s conversations, sketches, and play, and my aim is to translate them into thoughtful, collaborative builds.“
@nihal.j.singh
nihaljsingh.github.io
Autumn 2025 - Christine Chua
“As I navigate the changing environment of a city, I work amongst detritus and neglected sites, giving raw or discarded materials a new lease of life. Through a meditative process of excavation, I revisit our ancient relationship to the landscape, sparking a renewed sense of ownership to the earth and the communities we share.“
@xtine.art.earthquake
“As I navigate the changing environment of a city, I work amongst detritus and neglected sites, giving raw or discarded materials a new lease of life. Through a meditative process of excavation, I revisit our ancient relationship to the landscape, sparking a renewed sense of ownership to the earth and the communities we share.“
@xtine.art.earthquake
Summer 2025 - Gemma Lawrence
“I’m a visual artist working in drawing, printmaking and painting. I’m interested in using drawing as an experimental tool for engaging with my surrounding environment and visualising longer term environmental change. I work with found materials such as disused packaging - feeding my interest in transforming overlooked objects and introducing chance into the making process.“
@gemma.c.lawrence
“I’m a visual artist working in drawing, printmaking and painting. I’m interested in using drawing as an experimental tool for engaging with my surrounding environment and visualising longer term environmental change. I work with found materials such as disused packaging - feeding my interest in transforming overlooked objects and introducing chance into the making process.“
@gemma.c.lawrence
Spring 2025 - Ketchurah Ravindren
"My practice centres around being a community chef and facilitator. Providing nutritious, seasonal food to support groups in green spaces, health and wellbeing charities, and catering for artist-led retreats. My strong interest in food justice, addressing social inequalities and food education is evident in the use of surplus produce. With an interest in exploring and resurfacing lost and dying practices around food."
@ketchurahskitchen
breakingbread9.wordpress.com
"My practice centres around being a community chef and facilitator. Providing nutritious, seasonal food to support groups in green spaces, health and wellbeing charities, and catering for artist-led retreats. My strong interest in food justice, addressing social inequalities and food education is evident in the use of surplus produce. With an interest in exploring and resurfacing lost and dying practices around food."
@ketchurahskitchen
breakingbread9.wordpress.com
Spring 2025 - Stephanie Pau
Steph is a transdisciplinary artist, a human in a more-than-human world. She creates installations, collographs and durational performances with waste materials (food packaging, wood, dead/felled plants) and self-publishes zines. Guided by the seasons and local waste, she creates artworks that hold gentle and experimental spaces for questioning and practising ecological care and belonging in urban settings.
@whereisfuture
tomatoplants-et-al.net
Steph is a transdisciplinary artist, a human in a more-than-human world. She creates installations, collographs and durational performances with waste materials (food packaging, wood, dead/felled plants) and self-publishes zines. Guided by the seasons and local waste, she creates artworks that hold gentle and experimental spaces for questioning and practising ecological care and belonging in urban settings.
@whereisfuture
tomatoplants-et-al.net