MESSUMS CREATIVE
Artist Residencies
As part of our commitment to artists and the community, Messums Creative sponsors artist residencies with aims of providing free access to the created works for all. Artists also undertake free workshops for the public.
2025
Sammy Hawker
In partnership with the Corridor Project a not-for-profit Australian multidisciplinary arts and cultural organisation, we are supporting photographer Sammy Hawker through a UK based residency.
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Her research and work will explore near and long term changes to landscape and environment, anthropocentric living and migration choices and the resonances of the past.
The printed publication/ film/digital media artwork created will be shown and stored in the “library” at Lowestoft, forming a foundation brick in the knowledge and research into the area and the community.
2025
Jelly Green
Jelly Green spent three weeks on an artists residency at The Corridor Project, Wyangala, NSW, Australia.
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​Jelly Green (b.1992) is a contemporary British-New Zealand painter. Her work is defined by her passion for the natural world.
2024
Tyga Helme
Tyga developed new paintings based on Wiradjuri country producing a series of rapidly drawn gouache paintings. Tyga responded to the atmospheric transitions of light, sound, and colour from a northern hemisphere to a southern hemisphere palette.
2023
Julia Lohmann
Julia Lohmann spent her residency based at Messums Studios in Wiltshire creating a seaweed sculpture installation that was the centrepiece of our Tideline exhibition. Julia held a free seaweed workshop, teaching children and adults from the local community how to make a seaweed brooch to take home.
Julia Lohmann investigates and critiques the ethical and material value systems underpinning our relationship with flora and fauna. She is Professor of Practice in Contemporary Design at Aalto University, Helsinki, where she also lives.
2021
Sonia Leber & David Chesworth
What Listening Knows was a 3-channel audio and video installation by Australian artists Sonia Leber & David Chesworth, commissioned for our second Moving Image exhibition at Messums West. The research and filming were undertaken here in Wiltshire in the Summer of 2019, when Sonia and David were Messums’ first artists-in-residence. The resulting video installation was a free to access project for teh local community.
