Cubitt is an artist-run gallery and studio provider based in Islington. We are an independent organisation managed by our members: a community of over 30 artists dedicated to nurturing and supporting emerging practice in the visual arts. Over twenty years we have grown as unique hub for international developments in contemporary visual culture: providing essential opportunities for artists and curators to expand their practice critically at an early stage in their careers; whilst enriching the lives of countless audience members and thousands of local people through meaningful and responsive engagement. With the creative freedom and community of the studio at its heart, Cubitt is a multi-layered; richly resourced yet incredibly cost-effective; democratic beacon for outstanding art.

OUTPOST is an artist run gallery based in Norwich committed to the uncompromising presentation of contemporary art. A core programme of 11 exhibitions per year, each opening on the 1st of the month, 6 - 9pm and run from the 2nd to 21st of the month, 12 - 6pm (no exhibition in January). A programme of events and offsite projects runs alongside.

A membership scheme is operated and is vital to OUTPOST’s activity. Artist Members are encouraged to submit material to the Members Archive; a source from which exhibitions can be selected and independent curators can use as a resource. Membership costs £15 per year, a days invigilation can be provided in lieu of payment. Membership support for OUTPOST is invaluable, extending beyond the financial and ensuring that a credible context for contemporary art in Norwich is recognised and sustained. A committee of up to 8 members run the gallery with a limit of two years service each to ensure that selection and organisational processes remain fresh. OUTPOST was founded in November 2004 with financial support form Arts Council England East, Norfolk County Council, Norwich City Council and Norwich Gallery.

The Lombard Method is an artist-led studio and project space in Birmingham inaugurated in 2009. The Lombard Method aims to develop the individual practices of its members through critical dialogue, group interaction, and engagement with a programme of residencies, exhibitions and events held in our project spaces.

Founded in February 2011, Meter Room is a not-for-profit artist-run organisation located in ‘void’ City Council offices in the centre of Coventry.

Meter Room comprises of a 1400 square feet project space and 7 adjoining low-cost artist studios that are centrally located, secure, and provide 24 hour access.

Meter Room is dedicated to supporting the creation of new experimental work by artists and curators through a series of residencies and projects that respond to its function as a site of art production and dissemination.

"(...) The first part of this organisation’s name comes from its previous location – the Woodmill building, rundown former council offices in Bermondsey, southeast London, that, from 2009 to 2011, was home to a hundred artists, designers and filmmakers. (...)

During a short period of itinerancy, enforced by the end of the tenancy, the six original studio holders – Naomi Pearce, Stuart Middleton, Anna Baker, Angharad E. P. Williams, Richard Sides and Alastair Frazer – in liaison with their newly founded board of trustees spent many hours working out what the Woodmill should be (as well as searching for a new location – no former primary school, warehouse or empty retail unit was left unturned). The upshot of this was a decision to build the idea of constant flux into the organisation’s character. This resolution was not just a pragmatic one, but also one that resonated with the Woodmill’s desire for perpetual reinvention, for avoiding its own establishment and for eschewing any desire to become an institution with permanent footings. Happily ensconced, for now, in a former doctor’s surgery (which supplies the ‘GP’ part of the new name: ‘general practice’) – in which the old waiting room doubles as a shared studio and temporary exhibition and screening space (dinners, gigs and workshops are on the cards), with each of the doctor’s offices becoming private work digs, including a gratis residency studio – the Woodmill will move on again after one year. And it will voluntarily repeat this annual migration for the foreseeable future. Each time it moves, the Woodmill will evolve: it may become more popular; it will engage with more people; it may get written about more; the gallery footfall may increase; the space it occupies may be larger; it may move somewhere smaller. But by the nature of its instability, it won’t put down roots. It won’t be forced into an upward trajectory. Which, in a world dominated by the socioeconomic buzzwords of ‘growth’ and ‘development’, where artists are categorised as failures if they don’t move from the ‘emerging’ label to ‘midcareer’ or ‘established’, is a pretty grand ideal."

Oliver Basciano (2012), "Off-Space no 9: The Woodmill, London - Entering the Establishment"
online available at: http://artreview.com/features/off_space_no_9_woodmill_london/
(accessed 13 Sep 2013)