We are very pleased to announce our new Artists-In-Residence for our 2021-22 programme. Each artist was selected from our local communities and creatives can choose to work from home, in their own studio supported by Metal staff, or in our Metal spaces. We look forward to welcoming our new programme of artists and seeing how […]
Reader in Residence – Radical Reading Room Metal is delighted to announce a call-out for its Readers in Residence programme, in response to the Radical Reading Room. Quick overview: Six Readers in Residence for local and national artists, activists, academics, writers, collectives and collaborators at any stage of their career. Each Reader will be awarded […]
After twenty years at the helm, our Artistic Director and CEO, Colette Bailey, will be leaving Metal in November 2021. Colette has worked to build Metal from its inception in 2002 into an established and distinctive arts organisation that has a unique place within the cultural ecology of the UK. Now with a base in […]
Future Network is a quarterly virtual event co-programmed by our teams across the UK (in Liverpool, Peterborough and Southend). Throughout the year, we invite artists to host online sharings in response to a theme and also present accompanying material through a contribution to Metal’s website. For this Future Network the theme is Test, Try, Fail […]
Future Network is a quarterly virtual event co-programmed by our teams across the UK (in Liverpool, Peterborough and Southend). Throughout the year, we invite artists to host online sharings in response to a theme and also present accompanying material through a contribution to Metal’s website. For this Future Network the theme is Try, Test, Fail […]
Future Network is a quarterly virtual event co-programmed by our teams across the UK (in Liverpool, Peterborough and Southend). Throughout the year, we invite artists to host online sharings in response to a theme and also present accompanying material through a contribution to Metal’s website. For this Future Network the theme is Test, Try, Fail […]
Future Network is a quarterly virtual event co-programmed by our teams across the UK (in Liverpool, Peterborough and Southend). Throughout the year, we invite artists to host online sharings in response to a theme and also present accompanying material through a contribution to Metal’s website. For this Future Network the theme is Try, Test, Fail […]
On 23 June 2021, Metal took the heart-breaking decision to take down an artwork from Gunners Park in Shoeburyness that was part of Estuary 2021, called An English Garden by Gabriella Hirst. This work had been commissioned for Estuary 2021 by Metal and The Old Waterworks and put in place, having gone through all the […]
Metal Residencies Closing date: Monday 2 August 2021 at 5pmNotification: All artists will be notified of outcome by Friday 27 AugustResidency period: All month-long residencies will take place between September 2021 and March 2022Number of Residencies available: 21 (7 at each location – Liverpool, Peterborough, Southend)Offer: £1000 fee, use of Metal facilities and resources, staff […]
ESSEX WRITERS HOUSE WRITER IN RESIDENCE ANNOUNCED! Essex Writers’ House in partnership with English PEN (as part of their centenary celebrations) are delighted to announce writer and journalist Tim Burrows as the writer in residence for June. A recurring subject in Tim’s work is society, politics and Essex. In recent years he has written a […]
In response to the impact felt by many freelance artists and creative practitioners as a result of the Covid-19, Metal reframed our usual, annual programme of Artists in Residence to create 18 new Remote Residencies – on offer to our local creative communities in Liverpool, Peterborough and Southend-on-Sea, each with an artist fee of £1000 […]
May 2021 Last year we shared a statement to express our support for and solidarity with Black people and communities everywhere in the fight against racism in all its forms. We remain committed to a process of reading, listening, learning and discussion, as well as delivering against the set of actions that we as an […]