Independents Biennial 2025, Commission Guidance

Project Title: Independents Biennial 2025 Total commission amount (inclusive of time and materials): £500 - £4000 Festival dates: 7 June - 14 September 2025 Deadline: 7th February...

Independents Biennial 2025, Open Calls

Independents Biennial 2025, Open Calls Context: Independents Biennial is artist-led, and we want to make sure our artists still feel able to lead their own plans...

Independents Biennial 2024: Income support bursaries

Independents Biennial 2024: Income support bursaries Artists are disproportionately in receipt of income support from DWP. Regardless of commissioning, if you are part of Independents Biennial...

Independents Biennial 2025: Volunteering

Independents Biennial 2025: Volunteering Next years’ programme is bigger than before, and has a more directed set of visions. To accomplish that, we need a mix...

Volunteer coordinator, Independents Biennial 2025

Hours: Flexible (avg. 26 hours p/w) Contract length: 7 months (April – September 2025) Contract type: Freelance Location: Office TBC / Home Working Renumeration: £16 p/h (£11,008 April-September) Employer:...

Producer, Independents Biennial 2025

Hours: Flexible (avg. 22 hours w/k) Contract length: 9 months (February – October 2025) Contract type: Freelance Location: Office TBC / Home Working Renumeration: £16 p/h (£13,824 February-October) Employer:...

Week 6 Notes – Spaces part 2, Galleries (hand written notes and appalling automatic...

The hand written notes below are the result of limited capacity to stare at a screen this week. An attempt to automatically transcribe them...

Week 4/5 (base texts)

Week 4/5 bled out of week 3, and didn't have a particularly clear theme. Our podcasts focused on social media, and our writing stumbled...

New Podcast: Artist Hosts, Conversation #4: “Caterpillar” (on ‘Studios / Social Media’)

Listen to all podcasts here Harriet Burns, Elizabeth Challinor Jo Mary Watson and Matt Retallick (Independents Biennial 2021 Artist Hosts) and Patrick Kirk-Smith (IB Director)...

State of the Studios Report

Over the last twelve months, we've been working with studios to understand the issues they have faced during the pandemic. In almost every case,...