Newhaven Art Space Project Space
2026 Residencies
Throughout March and April we’re supporting practising artists by giving them free studio space at Newhaven Art Space. Each will immerse themselves in a new environment, exploring ideas and experimenting with new work. There will also be the opportunity to meet the artists and talk about their practice during the Saturday Open studio events.
This year the artists are Ross Deeley, Dexter Dymoke, Mia Wanaka Brimilcombe and Nicky Hirst.
Mia Wanake Brimilcombe, Open Studio was on Saturday 28 March
Mia, a recent graduate from BA Fashion Womenswear at Central Saint Martins, is a multimedia artist engaged in the development of bio-materials. Her work explores themes of fantasy, nostalgia, technology, consumerism and the environment with an interest in the exploration of Art as experience as much as finished product. She has exhibited at UK House, Oxford Circus and featured in Dazed Fashion, 17:23 Magazine and Mob Journal.
Ross Deeley, Open Studio was on Saturday 4 April
Ross is an artist working across and in-between sculpture, photography, and moving image, graduating from MA Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art in 2025. He uses light as an alchemical material to explore temporality, and our relationship to the ever-changing environment.
Nicky Hirst, Open Studio was on Saturday 18 April
Nicky’s working method is usually to observe and unravel, an exploration of serendipity within the everyday. Starting points may be objects, places or words which she then shifts, manipulates or juxtaposes. By noticing what is already there a visual poetry is revealed in the ordinary. ‘When I was a child, two things used to bother me a lot. I had heard that a giant squid could blanket Piccadilly Circus and if we pulled out our intestines they would reach the length of a tennis court. Later I learned that there are more atoms in a cup of water than there are cups of water in all the oceans of the world.’ She was, in 2019, ‘Election Artist’ appointed by the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art.
Dexter Dymoke, Open Studio is on Saturday 25 April, 10-4
Dexter is a sculptor and painter, his work deploying a counterintuitive approach to construction and image making, combining personal experience and art historical references to create fresh narratives. He works with prosaic, ephemeral and found material combining them with more orthodox materials in a traditional approach to making.
2025 Residencies
Kat Tweg, Ruby Campion, Helen Goodwin and Louisa Mahony worked in Newhaven Art Space during the 2025 Residency programme.
Kat and Ruby were recent graduates from the Fine Art undergraduate programmes at the University of Brighton.
Often interactive, Kat’s work aims to be generous, inviting you to explore and contribute to the piece whilst exploring how art might be embedded within your everyday life.
Ruby approaches making art as a social, community and spiritual practice with an interest in exploring storytelling and engaging with objects and artefacts, questioning conventional hierarchies of usefulness.
Louisa works in painting and sculpture, her work examines the narratives that we hold and impose upon the natural world.
Helen’s practice is largely site-responsive, sometimes performative and with an emphasis on impermanence.
