RUPTUREXIBIT is proud to be part of the Richmond Borough Arts & Ideas Festival 2025. We are offering an opportunity for a four-week residency with a £250 stipend to an artist or artist collective with an established practice to develop work in response to the theme of Cultural Reforesting.

The Opportunity

• The artist will be in residence in RuptureXIBIT's 360 sq ft front gallery space for 4 weeks, from 3 June to 30 June. The artist will be in residence for two weeks prior to the Festival and will continue working through the two weeks of the festival.
• £250 stipend 
• The studio is based in Hampton Wick, 5 mins walk from Bushy Park and the River Thames, as well as 10 mins walk from Home Park which leads to Hampton Court. and Kingston town centre.  
• Open to a small group of artists (up to 5) or an individual artist.
• The artist will be required to hold Open Studios as part of the festival during the weekends of 14th & 15th, 21st & 22nd and 28th & 29th June
• RuptureXIBIT artists in residence Kate Howe and Sally Mins will be responding to the theme in the back studios concurrently with your residency
• RuptureXIBIT will be open in its entirety during the Richmond Arts & Ideas Festival with all resident artists’ open studios at RuptureXIBIT promoted across the borough
  
  This residency also offers the following opportunities (optional):
  
  
• Present an Artist Talk
• Co-Host workshops
• Hold a show with PV during the final weekend

What is Cultural Reforesting?

Richmond Arts & Ideas Festival is communities coming together through dance, music, outdoor experiences, theatre, visual art, discussion forums and imagination.  

An expansive, collaborative, interdisciplinary programme across 40 partners, 2 weeks and 70 experiences and events will fill the borough with arts and ideas for its second outing, the first joyous success that last look place during the Summer of 2023.  

Building on the colour and energy of past festivals, this year’s, in June 2025, takes on the theme of Cultural Reforesting and asks the question: how can we renew our relationship with nature? 

RuptureXIBIT’s artists in residence are welcome to read the prompt of Cultural Reforesting against the grain, presenting work which responds in unexpected ways. Please reflect your impulse in your proposal.