CALLING ALL ARTISTS!
After successfully running for a year, multi-functional creative space Two Crows Arts Studio are now looking for more artists to join their family here at The Met.
Based in a large open space at the front of The Met the arts studio opened up the building to local communities and creatives last year and has recently expanded and had a refit early in 2025.
They’re looking for artist and creatives to join them in utilising the space to create and sell their work. Creatives who could work in the space include established sociable creative professionals; visual artists (printmakers, small scale sculptors, textiles, painters and digital); illustrators/designers; and writers/poets/wordsmiths.
As well as making and selling their original hand-crafted work, current artists deliver regular weekly workshops suitable for all ages and abilities. The programme includes events such as life drawing, artist socials, family craft activities, family doodle discos and beginner artists workshops.
The space also provides an important social hub where visitors can enjoy a delicious cup of coffee, tea or soft drink alongside a wide range of beers, wines and spirits via The Met’s café bar as well as a good range of sandwiches and snacks. There is outdoor seating for those hot summer days and the café is now open 10am – 5pm, Tuesday to Saturday, the perfect backdrop to browse all the art on offer at Two Crows Arts Studio.
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Resident artists will have access to the site seven days per week to make their art, with all utilities and shared facilities available.
The cost is a monthly payment of £120 and includes the option to sell their work via the shop on site. Temporary drop in spaces are available on a daily basis.
There is also a smaller studio space available for £100.
Current artists in residence are:
Alison Erika Forde, a visual artist/ illustrator practising in and around Greater Manchester for the nearly 20 years, who has always been passionate about making art more accessible as well as sustainability. Specialising in painting, inspired by anything from high art to the sub-cultural with disarming playfulness, exhibiting internationally and co-founder of Yiiikes! Art Collective, Alison believes art brings people together.
We’re building something very special here with our Artist Village. The creative community we wanted to bring together feels healthy, growing week on week. People bring the space to life, and it’s flourishing. I’m very excited to meet new artists with a shared vision! – Alison Erika Forde
Lee Crocker who believes art is for everyone, a belief he has spread with workshops, exhibitions and events for over 20 years – working at Bury Art Museum as well as co-founding successful Bury Collective and Gang of Five along with Alison and Bob Nutts Jr.
It’s been a dream to be able to create something like this for sometime , offering creativity for all in a unique space combining art with food and music and enhancing it with a creative village inhabited by like minded artists with the experience to create something very exciting in the centre of Bury. – Lee Crocker
For more information on the scheme artists should contact Two Crows Arts Studio twocrows.artstudio@gmail.com
For more information on the current Two Crows Arts Studio visit https://themet.org.uk/videos/two-crows-arts-studio-alison-lee/
Supported by GMCA & Bury Council