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

What is Sync?

Sync Leadership is a disabled-led project that inspires disabled creatives to be their best selves through a blend of coaching practice and leadership thinking.

We run intensive programmes face to face and online across the world with D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent arts leaders.

What is coaching?

Coaching is the art of open questioning, it’s not therapy. It is a solution focused way of realising your potential

What is leadership?

Leadership is about behaviours and how you make impact in the world building on your natural, skills, talents and ways of being in the world.

Sync knows that disabled artists can change society through making art, whatever form it takes!

Syncing Space is a new Sync Leadership project developed by Sync co-founder Sarah Pickthall.

Syncing Space is an online residency platform for disabled artists to explore, make, create, curate and showcase

(i)their art alongside others

(ii) their arts leadership

Joining a Syncing Space residency is a chance to collaborate internationally. Residency artists will

a. take time to try things out in you online studio, sharing your thinking, experimenting and making new work

b .take part in leadership and coaching workshops individually and with others to share and develop your ideas and confidence to do new things

c. share work at the end of the residency in a final online exhibition – this could be an art work, a think piece, a film, or  workshop that you might lead or an artist talk you might give to inspire others

Current Residency

Our first residency: Sync Shorts Malaysia/UK is taking place Spring 2025 with a showcase opening in April live in Kuala Lumpar and online.

Sync has the pleasure to work alongside Nakseni in KL for our first residency, piloting this new way of exploring leadership

Resident Artists

  • Andi Miranti
  • Izzati Shahrin
  • Thompson Hall
  • Charlotte Stephens

Collaborators

  • Collaborating Artist: Sarah Pickthall
  • Collaborating Artist: Annalees Lim
  • Collaborative Partner: Nakseni: Armani Sharin
  • Collaborative Partner: Vital Capacities
  • Collborative Partner: Vibra FusionLab