Art Station and Young Artists in Suffolk are delighted to welcome five artists to our month-long residency programme 2025!
Throughout the residency, artists are encouraged to collaborate, explore their practice, and make use of our unique spaces — including our Old Bank Riverside Garden, Telephone Exchange, and Old Bank building — all while responding to the theme of environment.
Artists have been paired with a mentor, selected to offer guidance, critical feedback, and professional insight throughout the residency. These one-to-one mentorships are designed to support artistic development, encourage reflective practice, and open up dialogue around creative direction, sustainability, and engagement. The mentoring element is a key part of the programme, providing residents with both encouragement and challenge as they develop new work in response to place and theme.
You’re warmly invited to our Artist Residency Sharing Event
Saturday 1st November | 2pm – 4pm
Art Station, 48 High Street, Saxmundham, IP17 1AB
Come along to meet the artists in residence, explore their work, and hear about what they’ve been developing during their time with us. This is a relaxed and informal opportunity to see behind the scenes of the residency, ask questions, and connect with the artists.
Everyone welcome!
Willem Keys is a sculptor and printmaker with an interest in material experimentation and sustainable practices.
His practice is rooted in an engagement with systems – natural, psychological and material. Through made objects he explores the interplay between human perception and the larger often unseen forces that shape the world around us, presenting a dialogue between artistic intention and the chaos of natural processes.
River Orrey is a queer multidisciplinary artist whose practice centres predominantly around photography.
Exploring queerness, trans identity, memory, and transformation, they work with both traditional and cameraless methods. River uses art as a way to rebel against their own perfectionism, embracing and celebrating the unpredictability of analogue techniques.
Eleanor Rodwell is a Suffolk-based visual artist, whose practice is rooted in mark-making, the landscape and translating emotional experience. Graduating from The Glasgow School of Art in 2018, her practice is underpinned by drawing, but also spans painting, sculpture and metal casting.
Endlessly interested by where she fits into wildness, and considering landscape as a catalyst for self-exploration, she reconfigures images and forms gathered whilst walking and from her daily rural spaces.
Felicity is a contemporary painter concerned with the corporeal human experience. Creating colourful, mixed media works that explore viewership, objectification, feminism and form, Felicity is fascinated by the visceral and universal experience of inhabiting a body. She explores abstraction and expressionist manifestations of the body and currently am reintroducing textile and embroidery work into my practice, with the act of embroidery nodding to the feminist connotations of craft and labour.
Karl Knights’ poetry, prose and journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Dark Horse, The Rialto, The Poetry Review, Poetry London and elsewhere. He won the 2021 New Poets Prize. His debut pamphlet, Kin, appeared with The Poetry Business in 2022.
Karl is a poet, journalist, and essayist. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Rialto, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, BBC Radio Suffolk and elsewhere. His work has been anthologised in 100 Queer Poems (Vintage), The Forward Book of Poetry 2024, He / She / They / Us: Queer Poems (Macmillan Children’s Books) and on the Poetry Foundation’s website.