Accessible online spaces for art making, curating and leadership

Sync Shorts – Spring 2026

We’re delighted to host our third Sync Shorts - Syncing Space Residency between UK and Korea funded by Arts Council England for Spring 2026

Arts Council England British Council Darlington Borough Council
ActionSpace Figment Arts Project Art Works

About Syncing Space

Syncing Space is an accessible online space for art making, curating and collaboration.

Syncing Space brings international artists together for a professional residency to:

  • take time to try things out in an online studio, sharing their thinking, experimenting and making new work.
  • take part in leadership and coaching workshops individually and with others to share and develop ideas and confidence to do new things.
  • share work at the end of the residency in a final online exhibition
  • learn and lead on things together

Latest Blog Posts

Eliph’s Bee trials

Great to meet with Eliph today and experience the process of making in all its experimentation and frustration as they find their way to create a final artwork that is true to all the different strands of their thinking.

From the history of bees, their religious connotations, recycling, and honeycomb resonance in metalwork on the pier. For Syncing Space the trial and error of leadership and leading others is just as important as the finished item or perfection itself. It’s a reflection of life!

Exploring my leadership skills

I feel my leadership skills are developing as I progress with the latest Sync Leadership programme. I feel I have adapted my skills to take on more “listenship”, with the way Victoria, Pixel, Eliph and Lucy are working. I have carried that on in to my latest painting. I began with bold and busy coloured layers and as I have progress over the sessions, I feel my colours have become softer, lighter, gentle and calming. When I am painting I feel more relaxed which is reflecting in the colours as well and the marks I am making. When I look at the colours they make me feel less stressed as they take away all the other things that are happening in the world.

Wonderland Butterflies

A wonderful set of photographs from meetings with and direction from Victoria as she shapes her ideas for her final artwork that features her leadership metaphor, a magnifying glass.

Victoria worked with Dave Packer, our Sync animator shaping some ideas into a film that shares Victoria’s vision and sees her butterflies take flight. We can’t wait to see the result and share her leadership thinking.