The Artist Lock-In is the flag-ship residency project produced by ArtHouse Jersey. In association with WildWorks, the Artist Lock-In is a professionally facilitated residency project for up to 12 Professional Artists of any discipline in a fortified castle island in October 2017. We are seeking adventurous artists of all disciplines to live and play in a historic fortified island for ten days, under the tutelage of esteemed creative facilitator Sue Hill.

The Artist Lock-In is the flag-ship residency project produced by ArtHouse Jersey.

In association with WildWorks, the Artist Lock-In is a professionally facilitated residency project for up to 12 Professional Artists of any discipline in a fortified castle island in October 2017.

We are seeking adventurous artists of all disciplines to live and play in a historic fortified island for ten days, under the tutelage of esteemed creative facilitator Sue Hill.

Participants will spend ten days working together to create shared scratch work and respond to their surroundings. The aim is to provide Artists with the time and space to consider new ways of working and collaborate with people of different practices.

The intentional isolation can free people to try new skills without the fear of failure and experiment with different forms and styles of making. As an Island off an Island, Elizabeth Castle is the perfect location for creative exploration to take place. For up to 12 hours a day it is completely cut off from the mainland of Jersey and contains a myriad of interesting spaces and structures. 

Call for Artists:

We are interested in hearing from creative people practicing in any discipline from around the world.

Theatre-Makers. Dancers. Filmmakers. Writers. Visual Artists. Musicians. Designers. Story-Tellers. Explorers. Dreamers ...

You must be over 18 and have made a professional commitment to your craft. The residency will be facilitated in English, so participants will be required to have a confident working level of English.

You must also be open minded and keen for a collaborative opportunity that will push your comfort zones and enable you to try a range of different tasks.

The Artist Lock-In is a fully residential project that requires all participants to stay within the castle at all times - all artists are truly ‘locked-in’.

The 2017 Artist Lock-In will take place between Sunday October 1st and Tuesday October 10th 2017.

ArtHouse Jersey will provide all Artists with accommodation and all meals at the castle between these dates.

Artists are required to travel to Jersey at their own expense or at the expense of a cultural organisation of their home jurisdiction. Participants must make necessary travel arrangements to arrive in Jersey before 12:00 on Sunday 1st and depart on Wednesday 11th October.

For further information, please contact alice@arts.je (Alice Bravery - Producer), or call +44 (0) 1534 617521, or visit http://arts.je

The deadline is Friday 01 September 2017 at 16:00.