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Mudlarks International Residency

The Mudlarks International Residency is a week-long residency for both UK and International artists.

Participants arrive with a concept and are provided with a raft of resources to help them explore it: collaborators, facilitated sessions, mentors and creative provocations.

There have been two annual residencies so far, in 2023 and 2024, at Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking, with a third taking place this year in 2025. We have worked with organisations such as the Schaubühne, Bristol Old Vic, Nottingham Playhouse and the Barbican who have nominated and financially supported artists, providing further opportunities to develop artistic networks.

We looked for people who:

Create innovative work that takes risks (and broadens what we, in the UK, might think of as a traditional forms).
Are committed to – or have an interest in – activism through the content of their practice or work, finding new ways of telling the story of the Climate and Ecological Emergency.
Have an integrity of practice, depth of thought and the willingness to do things differently.

2025 residency activists and artists:

AK Golding (supported by In Good Company)

Anka Herbut (supported by Polish Cultural Institute)

Chandenie Gobardhan (supported by DanceEast)

Fay van Baar (supported by Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT))

Karla Shacklock (supported by Complicité)

Louise Mari and Nigel Barrett (supported by Cambridge Junction)

LULA.XYZ (supported by Brixton House)

LINTD and Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh (supported by Opera North)

Malaika Kegode (supported by Theatre Royal Plymouth)

Munotida Chinyanga (supported by Strike A Light)

Nathan Ellis (supported by Complicité)