short supply
Short Supply is a bridge between emerging artists and arts organisations,
producing exhibitions, workshops and talks to create enriching environments that
allow us to platform, connect and exchange knowledge alongside emerging artists
in the north west and nationally. Being the change we want to see and all that.
For the last two years, we’ve balanced Short Supply with full time paid work to
pay the bills (like most artists, we see you Rishi). We’ve also relied on the
generosity of artists, designers, organisers, space-givers, all-round-good-eggs
to share their time with us. This is how the artist-led scene works most of the
time, a good deed for a good deed, we love it but we think we all deserve a bit
more than that. Short Supply has become a full time job, as we move towards
getting our own space, commissioning artist work, spreading artist-led
activities beyond major cities and partnering with more and more organisations
who need our help to link up with you lot. We’re very excited about it all, but
even our quick little mitts can’t keep up with our current email load. Over the
next year, the goal for us is to become self-sufficient, to finance projects on
our own terms while sharing our knowledge, resources and time with you. Our
Patreon page is to help us get there, to allow us to take more time off the day
jobs to focus on sustaining and growing the support that we’ve been giving so
far. Notable projects include our graduate art prize MADE IT (exhibitions at
HOME, Rogue Artists' Studios, Paradise Works), our Arts Council England funded
tour around the north west Goin Places Doin Bits, collaborations with Islington
Mill, SOUP, Manchester Pride, UKNA and our programming for organisations like
Manchester Art Gallery, Institute of International Visual Arts, The Whitworth
and Culture Warrington.
