Environmental

Our aim is to become a sustainable studio and to become a pioneer in sustainable practice, influencing our community of artists, staff, and other artistic community projects. Within our studio, we purchase eco-products, refillable products and reduce plastic use. Our studio is largely furnished with second-hand and upcycled furniture. We encourage our artists to re-use old artworks, reinventing artworks to create collages with old materials for instance, or painting over canvases. Our policy is to measure, manage, reduce and report on our environmental impacts as part of our annual objectives. The British Library and Darbyshire Framers Ltd. regularly donate frames to us and those we can’t use have been broken down to create new frames, shelving and the glass and perspex have been used repeatedly for printmaking activities in the studio sessions.

Education about sustainability and the climate crisis has been built into our workshop curriculum. Our studio has a small outdoor space where our artists learn about sustainable plants and are able to make dyes and inks from the plants to use in their artwork.

We have started to create our own paper and are looking at ways to develop this further, while also planning to make our own paper clay.

Get in touch if you would like to support Artbox in it’s mission to becoming a sustainable studio.