london art scene somerset house studios director Marie McPartlin artist residencies

New work emerging from the Studios spans a co-commissioned video game, a fictional legal trial testing accountability for dual-use technology and a performance developed with exoplanetary scientists.

A crowd gathers on a staircase bathed in vivid pink and blue light during a performance at Somerset House Studios.

Director Marie McPartlin says the residency program was deliberately built to give artists what most institutions won’t: years, not months, to work, a built-in culture of peer mentorship, and permission to fail along the way.

london art scene somerset house studios director Marie McPartlin artist residencies