IOU Creation Centre

IOU is a UK-based arts organisation with a 50-year history of creating experimental, interdisciplinary work that blends performance, visual art, engineering, and technology. Based at Dean Clough Mills, Halifax, the IOU Creation Centre supports artists to take creative risks and collaborate across disciplines, developing new work that connects communities, landscapes, and ideas. IOU’s long-term vision is to establish Calderdale as a vibrant hub for experimental art and rural innovation, linking local creativity to a global stage. IOU has created a rolling 6 month opportunity for artists to live, work and develop their creative practice at the IOU Creation Centre Hostel, Hebden Bridge. The Artist in Residency opportunity is open to artists specialising in any art form interested in IOU’s approach. The residency includes living rent and bill free in a self contained artist apartment to develop their practice and create an art project in response to time spent living at the Hostel. During their residency artists have the opportunity to lead a workshop at the Hostel or the IOU studio and to hold a final exhibition of their work Outcome Artists are invited to respond to the IOU Archive — a 50-year record of pioneering experimental and site-specific performance — and to create a new work that reflects IOU’s innovative approach to art, engineering, technology, and the environment. The residency forms part of IOU’s 50th Anniversary celebrations in 2026, culminating in a public presentation of the commissioned artwork.

Budget, production, transport, facilities, studio, mentorship

Open to artists of any discipline interested in IOU’s approach; no age or nationality restrictions stated.