Thrive Residencies: A Good Enough Net

Overview

Thrive Residencies: A Good Enough Net is a residency programme and a year's anthology of relational practices, curated and held by artist Tessa Wills. Thrive invites artists for a paid residency looking at kin-making practices in a hyper-local way, offering space and time for refuge and reflection on the Somerset Levels to develop creative practices which help shore up the kinds of relationships we need right now as systems fail around us.

Residency Details

• 11/1/27 – 5/2/27
• 22/2/27 – 21/3/27
• 12/4/27 – 7/5/27
• 17/5/27 – 21/5/27
• 7/6/27 – 16/7/27
• 16/8/27 – 27/8/27

Expenses Covered

• Option 1: Onsite accommodation - Free for the artist for up to 6 nights; Breakfast and communal dinner/hot meal provided each day for free; Travel support: £100 for all residency travel.
• Option 2: Offsite accommodation - £400 for residency period; Food: £100 for residency period; Travel support: £100 for all residency travel.

Additional Inclusions

Also included will be some peer mentorship, space and time to think, access to the land and the nature reserve, a bike to borrow during your stay and a small budget towards materials if required.

Curatorial Statement and Invitation

• Time (how long to build relationships you want? how long to break it?)
• Feeling safe where you have a right to be somewhere friendly somewhere hostile, or both
• The gap between one set of systems failing and the next growing (sitting in it, not rushing to fill it)
• What children know about trust and play (ask them)
• Digging, planting, tending (useful art)
• A village our village, playing together: a fete, a feud, a football match, a bake-off that goes too far
• The relationship you've wanted and never known how to begin
• Goats, foxes, swans, starlings, rats, faeries, water, and how they play