UKNA’s Weekender #6 takes place at Canopy by Hilton London City, generously supported by 4C Hotel Group. The Weekender is an opportunity to take some time, meet other artists, collaborate and replenish thinking and possible directions for your practice. The residency will centre around discourse, talks and workshops to develop ideas and works which are a direct response to the space, locality of the hotel and the outlined themes. We hope that this place and space will inspire new works as well as being grounds to create collaborative artwork on site.

New and emerging artists from across the UK took over the city of Leicester for a long weekend. Exhibitions, performance, music, writing and film and much more animated cultural spaces and unusual places, presenting the work of over 50 practitioners at the leading edge of contemporary arts.

UKNA ran a ‘call for ideas’; seeking three projects, led by artists. UK New Artists supported the selected artists realise their projects, with money, time, space and the support of three brilliant mentors; Garth Gratrix, Olwen Davies and Saziso Phiri.

Navigating 2021 & Beyond was a series of free online talks and masterclasses covering a range of topics, to help you navigate and support your creative career.

Led by the UK New Artists team with experts, thinkers and doers in their fields, the talks provided an opportunity to hear from Producers, Curators and Practitioners about their journeys, get some insider tips and advice and ask those burning ‘how to’s.

UKNA’s fourth ‘Weekender’, The Coast is Queer was an invitation to artists to explore the trajectory and longevity of queer culture through collective conversations, facilitated workshops and site specific interventions as a means to animate and examine identity through a multitude of lenses and alongside a diverse coming together of artists across the UK. Delivered in partnership with Garth Gratrix and Abingdon Studios.