Residencies

Our Residency Programmes are a way to explore new ideas, create work and contribute to our creative community. Residencies are awarded by application only. See below for a list of our current residency opportunities. Jelly is a diverse collective of practising artists at different stages of their creative development covering varied artforms. We work with many different communities from our central studio space in Reading town centre.

A residency at Jelly offers artists an experimental and supportive space to develop their creative practice and professional development.

Applications for residencies are currently CLOSED

Click here to join us for our current artists in residence community workshops.

2024/2025 Open for Art ‘Impact’ Residencies:

Our residencies have public workshops where our space is open for you to learn about the resident artist and their practice. Click here for all current residency events

Polite Extinction, aka Issa, trained in Textile Fine Art. She works in museums and theatres, researching the connection between embroidery and drawing. She will give a brief introduction to how embroidery influences her research practice and will you share examples of her 3D work.
Instagram: @politeextinction

Dezeta Fantie is a Black British Caribbean interdisciplinary artist that predominantly works with textiles, collage and text. Recently graduating from a BA in Fine Art, she enjoys finding new ways to share her practise and further exploring how traditional textile processes can be used to tell stories. Exploring history and reflecting on her own heritage, her process begins with collecting, collaging and reading. Fantie’s practice concerns creating a visual language and textile landscape that preserves, reimagines and celebrates the lives of black women, past, present or imagined.
Instagram: @dezzartzz

Emaan Pirzada (b. Hyderabad, Pakistan) graduated with honours in miniature painting from the National College of Arts (2021). Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally, including solo shows and prestigious projects like representing Pakistan in Cairo (2019). Recently, she received a residency sponsorship in France. Based in Islamabad, Pirzada actively promotes South Asian art as Coordinator at Foundation Art Divvy. Her art practice, inspired by place and environment (topophilia), has evolved from traditional miniature to mixed media over the years. Drawn to the emotive and detailed aspects of each new location, she captures them through compositions, transforming her observations into imaginary mind palaces. Her experimentation includes tea washes, inks, collage, and more, however, graphite remains a constant.
Instagram: @emaanpirzada__

Jessica Brauner is a Fine Arts graduate from UAL Camberwell College of Art. She is an emerging mixed-media artist specialising in video and performance.
Instagram: @jessicabraunerartist

Charlotte Hollis is a neurodivergent textile artist, exploring historic embroidery techniques through modern materials, imagery and sensibilities. She has been a lifelong ‘maker’, but only began to accept ‘artist’ or ‘artist-maker’ since the ‘unstitched coif..’ project in 2023. Her contribution to this project has recently been accepted into the ‘Fashion before 1800’ collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, which has encouraged her to follow her artistic ambitions.
Her work is full of heart and humour, and seeks to bring textile history to the forefront whilst soothing herself and others through turbulent modernity.
Website: https://blackworkembroidery.org/an-unstitched-coif-stitchers/charlotte-hollis/
Instagram: anewlystitchedcoif

Areej Abdi is a multidisciplinary artist/printmaker educator that works with various mediums depending on the subject. Her work is intertwined with nature, the environment and world issues. Her practice invites viewers to challenge their thoughts and ideas. She believes that all should have the opportunity to use art as a voice for emotive release. Her current work is focusing on automatic drawing as a means to help with mental health and wellbeing.
Instagram: areejabdi

Dr. Michael Day is an artist, researcher, lecturer, and occasional curator. He is interested in the ways that external factors can structure individual experience, and produces artworks that explore relationships between technology, class, and agency. His practice is interdisciplinary and uses a range of media and technologies, including digital media, sound, installation, drawing and print. He has exhibited and screened work in venues across the UK, in Europe, and internationally.
Website: www.michaelday.uk Instagram: @michaelday.uk

Jim predominantly makes sculptural work, creating forms in diverse media particularly stone, metal and glass. His practice is highly process-driven and he enjoys experimenting with techniques and combining materials in novel ways.
He is a board member of the Engine Room, an arts and mental health project that creates a space for individuals to access creative opportunities that will support empowerment, recovery and creative development
During this residency, while carving wax masters for bronze casting, he will record an aesthetic diary to assess the emotional impact of various aspects of the creative journey.
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