Contains Art provides flexible, affordable space for artists, designers and makers to develop and showcase their work and to connect with the creative and wider communities of Western Somerset.
Contains Art aims to:
Inspire creative ambition
Develop professional practice
Foster collaboration and critical engagement
Uncover and support emerging practice
Promote creative business
Connect creative communities and audiences
A not-for-profit organisation, Creatives Club CIC*, has been set up to steer the project, formed from members of Creatives Club, a thriving, monthly networking meeting on the last Thursday of every month in Watchet’s Esplanade Club. Plans for Contains Art grew from the findings of a 2011 study ‘Creatives Uncovered: A Creative Workhub for Western Somerset’, undertaken by the Making the Links project funded with Somerset County Council’s Creative Industries Development Fund. The project is part of a strategy proposed by Making the Links for developing a supportive infrastructure for the creative sector.
