MAKESHIFT is PINK’s new artist-led programme exploring how we can remove the practical, technical and structural barriers that prevent artists from making ambitious three-dimensional work.

As part of MAKESHIFT, we're bringing together artists, makers, curators, fabricators and other practitioners for a 10-part public talks programme exploring how work gets made, and the conditions that make making possible.

Through artist talks, conversations and group discussions, we'll explore materials, processes, scale, fabrication, exhibition, sustainability, technology and the realities of developing and sustaining a physical making practice.

Rather than formal lectures or technical demonstrations, these sessions will create space for practitioners to share knowledge gained through experience: what they've learned, what hasn't worked, what has changed their practice and what they wish they'd known earlier.

The talks sit alongside MAKESHIFT's practical workshops and contribute to PINK's ongoing research into the resources, knowledge and shared infrastructure artists need to make ambitious work.

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MAKESHIFT is supported using funding from the UK Government.