Conversation and debate across disciplines and cultures is central to the philosophy of Metal.  Food has played a large part in the way that we like to bring people together to talk.

A central feature of each of our buildings is a large oven – in Liverpool we have an AGA, and in Southend a Lohberger wood burning stove.

Artists and thinkers are invited to share food, knowledge, experience, ideas and to meet each other in a ‘neutral’ and domestic space in the belief that this supports, strengthens and extends the UK cultural network on an artist-to-artist principle.

Dinners are a regular feature of our programme -  planned around ideas, themes and notions that have their starting point in an artist’s work.

Below are a series of images from dinners that Metal has hosted in Southend, Harlow, Chelmsford, Liverpool, Gateshead and London.