Actually, first studio booking is not correct – it is the second booking as I did manage to let space to a photographer in February for a week. However, this let is for four months, which makes it the first “long” let! It’s to artist Lucy Steggals who will be working in Dover on a project called D.overtime. She will be working with community groups who want to learn how to make films/content for the Live Site in the market square (BBC Big Screen).
Great, we have our first studio booking for a project starting in May and it looks as if the studio will be used for another project involving re-used timber in June. And before all that UCA architecture students may use the space in April.
All very exciting.
It takes time to get things going but I think it has been worth hanging on for the right kind of project. I would really like the studio to acquire an identity as a working space – as a former industrial space the idea of it being a place of “industry” is very apt.
Interest in the studio is building slowly. A UCA student who lives in Dover and is graduating in June is very interested which is great.
I don’t think he could quite believe that this quality of space is available in Dover.
