V22

✨exciting news!!✨ Get your diary out…. We are delighted to announce not one, but 2 upcoming events!! 🚨📣 V22 artists will be selling original prints, ceramics, paintings, textiles, sculptures and more in our upcoming ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR. We will be opening the doors to our Ashwin yard in Dalston’s cultural quarter on Saturday 6th June. Come down to see what our artists have been making in their studios and support London’s creatives. Then come back on Sunday 7th June for our OPEN STUDIOS in Ashwin Street & Ashwin Yard! Meet the artists, see their amazing work, and have a nosy round the longest running V22 building. Proud to be running as part of @hackneyartweek in @dalston_cultural_quarter

Dalston has always been a centre for creativity, enterprise and culture, with community at its heart. Now a number of the organisations located in and around Ashwin Street have come together as the ‘Dalston Cultural Quarter’ to ensure that the much-loved character of the area is retained and nurtured. We, the founding partners, including the Dalston Curve Garden, Bootstrap Charity, V22, Cafe Oto and the Dusty Knuckle are committed to enhancing Dalston’s cultural diversity. Together, we bring over a century of experience in local campaigning, arts programming, building community resilience, entrepreneurship, creating employment and shaping spaces that make people feel good. We all share a profound commitment to social justice and to making Dalston an even better place. Our first campaign will focus on securing 2 - 8 Ashwin Street for permanent community and cultural use. If the site is sold to a developer for luxury flats, it would put further pressure on the Dalston Curve Garden, damage the character of Ashwin Street, and undermine the night time economy that venues such as Cafe Oto help sustain. We want to ensure that the site remains a cultural asset, used by and for the community for Dalston, and continues to contribute to the area’s creative, social and economic life for the long term.

OPEN STUDIO ✊🔥 MAY 1ST (free tix in bio) We’re opening our studio doors for International Workers’ Day- and we couldn’t think of a better moment to gather. After 8 years building our practice in a train on top of Village Underground (yes… a train <3), we’ve now moved into our new home at V22 Art Studios in Dalston. 💥 And to celebrate the end of a chapter and the start of something else we are organising an open studio with: * Spring sale - Exclusive merch from projects (posters from £10) * Tees + editions at reduced prices * 👀 Pre-order Nelly's limited edition prints on magic practices in Algeria ahead of their premiere at the London Original Print Fair at Somerset House, represented by Jealous Gallery @jealous_london * Meet with Nelly and team and our studiomate Mikey Kirkpatrick (magic flutist!) @mikeykirkpatrick Yes, the trains are gone, but we are STILL very much here! Plotting creative resistance and organising chaos! 📍 V22 Studios, Dalston (next to Café OTO) 🕡 From 18:30 🎟️ Free ticket required (link in bio) Can’t make it? We’ve archived our entire train studio online 👉 nellystudio.co.uk Shop 👉 nellyben.com Come through. Bring friends. Support independent and experimental practices. ✊❤️🔥 #OpenStudio #LondonArt #Dalston #V22 #JealousGallery #PrintFair #Independentpractices #WorkersDay

Introducing V22 Studios V22 is an affordable artist studio provider in London. V22 Ashwin Street is their original studio block in the heart of Dalston’s cultural quarter — a set of former Victorian terraced houses joined to a railway signalling factory in the 1960s, later becoming an important arts centre throughout the 80s and 90s. Today, it continues that legacy as home to around 50 artists, makers and cultural producers. For Hackney Art Week, V22 opens its doors: Saturday 6 June Arts & crafts fair in the yard — expect affordable, original work spanning prints, ceramics and more. Sunday 7 June Open studios — go behind the scenes, meet the artists and see where the work is made. “Hackney is a place where artists actively shape culture. As rising costs of living and rent continue to impact Dalston’s cultural ecosystem, it is imperative we sustain spaces where experimentation, collaboration and cultural differences can be celebrated and amplified.” — V22 Studios @hackneyartweek @v22studios #v22studios #hackneyartweek #dalstonculturalquarter #ashwinstreet #openstudio

✨V22 Artist Spotlight✨ Stine Keinicke is a Danish designer and maker based in our Hither Green studios. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2015 with an MA in Design Products and has previously studied in Japan and Denmark. Her work seeks new ways to utilise materials of manufacturing techniques to create sustainable and functional objects with a tactile interaction. Alongside her practice, Stine lectures at Central Saint Martin, Goldsmiths and UCL. @stinekeinicke_studio Thanks to @annietobinphoto for the beautiful photographs. Get in touch if you are interested in joining the V22 studios by following the link in our bio.

The first cohort of artists, makers and shakers have officially moved in to our brand new V22 Broadway Chambers artist studios in the heart of Catford, SE6! A huge welcome to: @can_agram @mimiembroiderystudio @jolie.goodman @adamdavidwatts @bombi.home @jackoorb @ohstudio.co.uk @madeleinefamurewa Amongst many other lovely creatives. Studios are going fast. Visit the link in our bio to book your viewing.

We made a website archiving our train studio! Check it out 👉 nellystudio.co.uk After 8 years running our creative hybrid practice and hosting activists, artists, researchers, performers, free thinkers and makers in a train on top of the independent nightclub Village Underground, our office trains are leaving and soon replaced by a rooftop bar (go support independent nightlife when it opens!). We’ve now moved next to the experimental music venue Cafe OTO in Dalston as a part of the creative collective V22 Studios- which celebrates 20 years of support to creatives. As we left, we decided to make an archive of our studio -to celebrate everything we’ve done and share it with you. It’s best experienced on desktop and a work in progress, but please play around, explore, and tell us what you think! More iconic props and objects from our time at Village Underground are coming soon 👽 We give thanks to our very own Benjamin Mehigan for the scans, and Jack Waghorn for web design ❤️✨ Ruben Uvez always on the sound ❤️ We thank the full team at the Village Underground for the most unforgettable years ❤️ We thank the team at V22 Studios for hosting us for the next 100 years ❤️ What we learned looking for an affordable space in London? it was really, really hard. Rents are skyrocketing and independent creative spaces are constantly under threat …and it’s not just us. London has lost cultural spaces overall in recent years, and many creatives struggle with rising costs and insecure leases. According to data on London’s creative infrastructure, cultural spaces have declined over time amid financial pressures; 3 in 5 say they’re in a worse situation than before the pandemic. We’re keen to talk to the Greater London Authority, journalists and anyone interested in how we must keep creative spaces alive in this city 🗣️💬 We have some ideas…

Four Goldsmiths graduates are the recipients of the inaugural V22 x Goldsmiths Studio Scholarship Programme.    The scholarships aim to provide recent graduates with space, time and a supportive environment at the critical point of transition between graduating and embarking on professional practice.      [Pics: The four graduates in their studio; Juan Alejandre; Nicole Di; Sofía Serpa Arango; Tegan Dore Text: Art grads awarded first studio scholarships by V22; “Being able to think and work in a bigger space makes your work bloom like nothing else.”; “Literally having the space… means I keep the space in my mind. It elevates the practice to what it really is - creating art.”]

📢 CALLING ALL CATFORD ARTISTS 📢 V22’s new Broadway Chambers studios has officially opened! ✨🍾 We have studios available in this beautiful art deco building in the heart of Catford ranging between 128 - 257 sq ft. All studios benefit from natural light, communal kitchens and heating & hot water. 🔗 email [email protected] to book a viewing or visit the link in our bio for more info

✨Artist opportunities: JANUARY✨ We know how time consuming it can be to keep track of open calls and deadlines, so here is a round up of current opportunities that we think are worth a look. Good luck if you apply 💚 🔗 See the link in our bio for more details

#v22ashwinartcentre artist Kong Qianyang @kong_qianyang will be showing works alongside Julia Mazur @to.mazur Sanna Namin @sannanamin Rosa Avilez @rosaavilez and Renatha Hoga @sansraeval in ‘Softening the Edges’ curated by Sanna Namin for ANNEX by The Koppel Project @the_koppel_project Opening Event TONIGHT: 6-9pm, Thu 27 November Exhibition Dates: 27 November - 2 December 1 Tiverton Street, SE1 6NT Softening the Edges is a group exhibition that explores how softness and sculptural form intertwine through material and gesture. Led by women artists, it brings together practices rooted in touch, material experimentation, and embodied experience to explore themes of identity, representation, gender, and materiality. Softening the Edges creates a space for dialogue around hybrid practices - those that blur the boundaries between disciplines to propose more inclusive and emotionally resonant forms of expression. At its core, the exhibition centers on the malleable and tactile qualities of soft sculpture as a guiding motif. Through wearable works, textile-based installations, performance, and sculptural objects, Softening the Edges reflects on the intimacy of textiles and the spatial presence of form. This convergence emphasizes the emotional, political, and cultural dimensions of softness, inviting viewers to reconsider how materiality shapes both personal and collective identities.

#v22stokey artists Sarah Hopper @slhopper & Lydia Seaman @lydia__seaman are participating in Pistol Collective's @pistil_collective group show ‘Attention Without Object’ at Candid Arts Trust @candidartstrust Attention Without Object Opening Thursday 23 Oct, 6pm - 9pm 24 -26th October : 11am - 5pm Candid Arts Trust, 3 Torrens St, London, EC1V 1NQ A gathering of 27 artists: @danielborrow @luluweidestudio @martinathays @m.frolov2.0 @esmematthews_ @artsokoloff @lenkadellaporta @s.thrn @wlyvlo @guanyi_chen_art @lillyoertelstudio @daisy.cw @futers_tobias @florencetallulahbennett @willem_keys @etherbaby999 @thomasdlake @nay.ohh.mi @lydia__seaman @euro_kurd @underwater_baa @anaionscu @dunecs @slhopper @janemechner @varsamuelsen @abiisunderland