Main Commissions

  • Louie Haslam-Chance

    Louie Haslam-Chance is a Bradford-based artist working with analogue photography and sustainable processes. His work explores land, memory, and identity through tactile methods and poetic visuals. Currently studying for an MA in Photography, Louie is passionate about place-based practice that is both accessible and environmentally conscious. 

  • Naseem Darbey

    Naseem Darbey is a Bradford-based artist known for sculptural drawings and textile installations. Her immersive, research-driven practice explores themes of loss, hope, and adaptation, often involving community collaboration. She creates tactile, story-led works that uncover overlooked histories and reimagine place through creativity and care.

  • The People Powered Press

    The People Powered Press creates large-scale, collaborative letterpress artworks with communities across Bradford and beyond. Based in Saltaire, they use the world’s largest printing press to amplify underheard voices through writing, design, and print. Blending creativity, bold design, and social impact to celebrate local stories and collective expression.

  • Ruth Fettis

    Ruth Fettis is a Bradford-based printmaker using recycled lino to tell powerful, story-driven narratives rooted in working-class experience. Her bold, illustrative work explores themes of resilience, community, and visibility. Ruth’s practice celebrates everyday lives and brings personal and political histories to light.

Small Grants

  • Lauren Egan

    Lauren Egan is an Irish artist based in Bradford whose bio-art practice uses living materials to explore bodily, ecological, and decolonial themes. Working across installation and performance, her work challenges traditional boundaries of painting, celebrating the body’s connection to microorganisms, land, and systems of care and resistance.

  • Joshua Hart

    Joshua Hart is a Bradford-based photographer using analogue techniques to explore memory, community, and place. His practice is deeply personal and process-led, with a focus on authentic storytelling. Joshua studied at Leeds Arts University and brings lived experience into his work, often highlighting overlooked environments and emotional narratives.

  • Tahir Shah

    Tahir Shah is a Bradford-based filmmaker whose work explores neurodiversity, identity, and migration through honest, emotionally resonant storytelling. Rooted in community and lived experience, his films use humour and heart to challenge stigma and platform underrepresented voices.

  • Ivan Mack

    Ivan Mack is a Bradford-based artist whose sculptural and technological practice explores systems, symbolism, and cultural memory from a Neurodivergent perspective. Drawing on backgrounds in archaeology, sound, and film, his work interrogates technology, climate, and ethics through tactile experimentation, process-based making, and a deep commitment to inclusive, critical practice.

  • Leonie Briggs

    Leonie Briggs is a West Yorkshire multimedia artist working across acrylic painting, sculpture, and digital media. Her character-driven practice blends storytelling with reflections on nature, folklore, and neurodivergent experience. Alongside her studio work, Leonie co-leads community art projects and workshops, creating inclusive spaces for connection and creativity.

Bursaries

  • Lauren Kelly

    Lauren Kelly is a Bradford-born multidisciplinary artist working across collage, photography, digital art and painting. Her work explores nostalgia, youth culture, and the aesthetics of hedonism, often through a pink-hued, dreamy lens. Her practice blends personal archives and digital layers to question memory, beauty, and the cultural power of aesthetics.

  • Saira Baig

    Saira Baig is a Bradford-based visual artist working across textiles, printmaking, and embroidery. Her intricate, layered works explore human connection, memory, and environmental fragility. Inspired by nature and ancestral stories, she often uses recycled materials and delicate stitching to reflect on sustainability, identity, and the interconnectedness of all living things.

  • Annie Fforde

    Annie Fforde is a Bradford-based printmaker with over 20 years experience combining traditional and experimental printmaking methods. Her vibrant, process-led work explores memory, textiles, and layering. Annie is also a passionate workshop leader, encouraging inclusive and exploratory approaches to print in both community and professional settings.

  • Caro Blount-Shah

    Caro Blount-Shah is a Bradford-based artist working in print and alternative photography. Her practice explores nature, sustainability and environmental themes using experimental processes like anthotypes, cyanotypes, and homemade photographic materials. She has decades of experience in community arts and now volunteers with Trapezium Arts, supporting inclusive, eco-conscious creative projects.

  • Sarah Lin Marsden

    Sarah Lin Marsden is a self-taught British-Chinese mixed media artist based in Bradford. Her practice explores spirituality, healing, and lived experience of disability and chronic illness. Working from her bedroom studio, she creates intuitive, symbolic artworks that channel personal and collective stories through collage, painting, community-led workshops, and care-driven creativity.