Southbank Centre Studio
Introducing our new multi-artform artist development initiative
Southbank Centre Studio supports creative innovation from some of the country’s most exciting artists.
Part of our drive to further support new work across the arts, this new programme invites artists to take up residency in our Purcell Room, enabling creative development, cross art-form collaboration, rehearsals and more. Each of the five-day residencies offers the artists valuable space, time and technical resources to help them realise new creative ideas, or further develop an existing project.
Building on our popular cross art-form performance series Purcell Sessions, which launched in 2021, Southbank Centre Studio encourages new ideas and experimental collaboration. Each of the participants are encouraged to view the space as a meeting place to create new ideas, ones borne from collaborations between writers, visual artists, designers, choreographers and musicians.
‘Southbank Centre Studio further underscores our commitment to developing bold artistic endeavours and providing artists with the opportunity to explore exciting and surprising new hybrid collaborations …it’s a key element of our support for artists as they emerge into the post-pandemic world.’
Mark Ball, Southbank Centre Artistic Director
In the studio
Since its inception, the programme has worked with the following artists.
Cade & MacAskill are actually four people, who work together to create, and present, singular, complicated worlds on stage.
Chisato Minamimura is a Deaf artistic director, performer and BSL art guide based in London.
Gaika Tavares, better known as GAIKA, is an artist and writer who describes his work as ‘building worlds from the memories we have lost’
A South London-born multidisciplinary creative, working as an artist, mentor and cultural innovator.
Le Gateau Chocolat exists at the intersection of drag and opera, cabaret and theatre.
Originally from San Francisco, Mantawoman is an artist who ‘makes heartfelt music and performances that explore identity and change’
NYX are a London-based collaborative drone choir who come together to create ecstatic experiences for stage and screen
Roxanne Tataei is a musical artist whose work is centred around the voice
Soumik Datta is a musician, beat poet and producer who draws from personal stories to make immersive creations.
Tai Shani, an artist who uses many different disciplines, collaborates with Maxwell Sterling, a musician, composer and sound artist.
Combining dance, mime, lip sync, drag and satire, Thick & Tight make queer-focussed work which entertains, whilst challenging elitism and stigma in the arts, and in wider society.