Art Spaces

Studios, galleries, rehearsal rooms, darkrooms and project spaces, each one listed by the person or collective that actually runs it. Some go by the day, some by the month, some open their doors to visitors, and a few are one shared bench in somebody else's larger room. The photographs come from the owner, not a letting agent.

A listing has a price with the unit attached, by the hour, the day or the month, or no price at all where the owner would rather talk first. Then a type in the owner's own words, a short feature list, a cover image and a location down to the city. What you see is roughly the state of the place on a working Tuesday.

Filter by city, type and price, and sort by newest or by what costs least. When something looks right you send the owner a note saying what you need it for; your name and email go with it and the reply comes by email. There is no calendar and no payment step on British Artists. Whatever you agree, the deposit, the notice period, who holds the key, you agree directly with them.

The questions that decide it are rarely in the headline: ceiling height, whether the floor takes water, whether you can sand at nine at night without a neighbour on the stairs, whether the lease runs month to month or commits you to a year. Owners tend to write these into the description because everyone asks anyway, and the ones who do not get asked in the first note.