Accessible online spaces for art making, curating and leadership

Artists in Residence – Spring 2025

Sync Shorts Malaysia/UK is taking place from January – April 2025 with a showcase opening live in Kuala Lumpur and online at the start of World Autism month. Sync is working alongside Nakseni in Malaysia sharing all good things in its first Syncing Space residency. The project is supported through a British Council Connections Through Culture grant.

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

Charlie reflects on her painting

Posted 2 months ago

an image of different shots of the process of making and audio description with Charlie, Katie and Patricia in Hastings.

Last Thursday, Sarah made a final visit to see Charlie at Project Art Works to see her finished artwork and make a recording of a conversation between Charlie, Katie and Patricia all of whom are in the painting.  We placed the original photograph taken during the lockdown years beside the painting.

We are designing the final exhibition with our web designer, Oli Pyle and working with the audio of conversations that describes the artworks, why they were made, how they were made and why they matter so much.  You will be able to listen and read these in the final exhibition.

Izzati’s mandala of us all

Posted 2 months ago

A beautiful set of images of Izzati's mandala showing so many of the participants taking part in syncing space

It was wonderful in our last session to find out that Izzati has included so many of us in her mandala pictured here. Zu is in the middle as the constant flower, then surrounded by Armani.

Then Sarah is there with pink elements, then Charlie with yellow and green.

Thompson and his blues with dark strokes and where is Andi?

He’s around the circumference!

Leading Metaphors

Posted 2 months ago

an image of different squares of artwork, there's a butterfly and Izzati painting at an event on a large canvas. And on the right there is a still from Andi's animation of Ned and the colour blue

In sessions three and four, we’ve been sharing our metaphors together and how they relate to our leadership styles and motivation. We have explored Izzati’s butterfly but also what the flower means in her artworks. Thompson’s lava lamp clearly illustrates his nature and the way he approaches things. Ferb is Andi’s metaphor and we can see Andi when we watch the animation episodes! Charlotte’s lightening is something that bolts with challenge but also joy!  We are learning all about each other in sharing our metaphors. Sync always does this whatever the programmes we run!