As Turps and MASS Art School applications 2026/27 are now open, we’re holding a series of Open Days this month for those considering applying to the Turps and MASS programmes — full details below. We hope you can join us.
🍌TURPS ART SCHOOL
Saturday 7th March: Open Day Talk at 1pm, Open Studios from 1– 6pm, at Turps HQ and Turps Studios.
🍌TURPS EAST SUSSEX
Saturday 14th March: Open Day Talk at 2pm, East Sussex Mentors Show PV 3–6pm, at Electro Studios.
🍌TURPS MARGATE
Thursday 26th March, Introductory Talk at 1pm at Turner Contemporary – RSVP 🔗 in bio.
🍌MASS ART SCHOOL
Saturday 21st March: Open Day Talk at 1pm, Open Studios + Pop Up Exhibition 21st and 22nd March 12– 4pm, at MASS HQ
For regular updates from our programme-specific accounts, follow:
@mass.sculpture@turpseastsussex@turpsmargate
And our painter-led accounts:
@turpsstudioprogramme@turpsoffsiteprogramme@electro_studios_project_space@turnercontemporary
Some of the current turps painters are in: And I Want A Pony at AMP Gallery, SE15 2TZ.
The show runs until tomorrow and is open 12-4
Small works, big ideas. Thirteen painters - each driven by distinct desires, questions, and stubborn ambitions - come together to celebrate painting’s irrepressible urge to do its own thing regardless.
What unfolds in the passage from idea to action cannot be contained by description, nor measured by size. Within each of these thirteen modest works, creative energy pushes insistently beyond the limits of their four prescribed edges. Once the materials meet the hand, intention loosens its grip, and the painting is free to change its course.
Brought together through the Turps Studio programme, these painters have been shaped by the conditions of sharing a studio space: the daily proximity to one another’s processes, doubts, and discoveries. This sustained exchange of looking, listening, and working side by side has left its trace, not as a unified style, but as a heightened openness to risk, generosity, and a genuine exploration of the restless, ever-changing possibilities of painting itself.
Text by @hermioneread@daisyye19@matthew_stickland@winnie_hall@benedictjohnsonstudio@jeremyscottstudio@leomacdonaldoulds@alice_barker_@aineosborne_@hermioneread@paulditchstudio@ireneanguita_c@eleanormaycox@emma_sefton_smith
