Studios Make Artists: How Studios Can Support Artist Development

'Studios Make Artists: How Studios Can Support Artist Development' is a conversation between curators Colette Griffin, Dan Brown and Dr. Maggie Matić that explores the role of the artist’s studio in supporting making, learning and professional practice.

With individual backgrounds in developing and delivering artist development programmes within studio contexts, they each share their experience of studios as valuable sites for supporting creative practice, where learning and professional opportunities – both formal and informal – take place.

The conversation is chaired by Exodus Crooks.

This talk took place on 26 June 2024 at Freelands Foundation in London. It was programmed to accompany 'Studio', a display in the Foundation's library that drew together audio interviews, archival publications and images, and artworks to explore the studio as a site of artist development.

Contributors: Colette Griffin (curator, arts writer and artist mentor, Artist Development Curator at Primary), Dan Brown (curator and artist, Curator of Research at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop), Exodus Crooks (artist, educator and writer) and Dr Maggie Matić (curator and researcher).

'Studios Make Artists: How Studios Can Support Artist Development' is part of Freelands Foundation's ongoing research into the studio as a site for artist development and learning.