NFASP publications
A register of artists studio groups and organisations in the UK - available online
The third edition of the register is now available online. It lists 147 groups managing 270 buildings across the UK providing affordable workspace for 6,000 artists.
Published for the first time by the NFASP, this edition includes Northern Ireland, Scotland Wales for the first time. It provides an invaluable reference source about these groups and the activities they undertake. Although of widely differing scales, structures and ways of working, together these groups make a vital contribution to the development and success of the visual arts in the UK by supporting artists at the basic level of production.
Click the link at the bottom of the page to download a copy. A CD-rom version will be available in September 2008.
The register was first researched and published by Acme Studios in May 2005. NFASP is grateful to Acme for the considerable work it undertook in establishing the register and for enabling the Federation to take it on.
Studio organisations: charitable status and constitutional structures, Michael Cubey, NFASP, October 2006
The report presents a snapshot of the types of studio groups and organisations the NFASP will be supporting through its membership services. It looks at their different types of company / organisational structures, and charitable status, with a view to establishing the range of possible models studio groups might adopt and their benefits and drawbacks. The NFASP will use this information to create model rules for new studio organisations.
Artists' studios: creating public benefit
A Nottingham case study
This case study looks at two Nottingham based studio groups, Oldknows Studio Group and Egerton Studios, both small scale organisations, voluntarily run and operating as unincorporated groups but with a twenty year presence at one site in the city, the Oldknows factory in St Ann’s Hill Road.
By looking in depth at the activities of some of the artists based at these two studio organisations, this study demonstrates that artists in receipt of an affordable studio can gain the support, confidence and security that enables them to participate in cultural life and provide a range of important public benefits. The study also shows the vulnerability of the sector as the leases for both groups are due to expire within two years.
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