KIOSK: A Tiny Studio
KIOSK: A Tiny Studio provides artists access to 100 sq ft of space, generously donated by CLICK homes in 2024. Located on the scenic Persephone Beer Farm in Gibsons, during the spring and summer seasons, artists are provided with a monthly residency in exchange for weekly public engagement activities ranging from open studios, demo workshops, marketplaces, readings, screenings, and more.
Presented by the Sunshine Coast Arts Council in collaboration with The Only Animal, and Cinder Circle Collective, this unique artist residency offering is an opportunity for artists to bring their practice to a broader community, and to expand the spaces for art on the Coast.
Thanks to Persephone, KIOSK will be offering art and connection to communities across the Coast through 2028. Keep a look out for future opportunities, including an open call for participation in early 2026.
Reflecting on 2025’s inaugural season
In summer 2025, The Only Animal’s artistic director Barbara Adler and the Sunshine Coast Arts Council collaborated to convene an emergent artist residency that emphasized accessibility, disability justice and connection with the land. Bringing together local artists and organizations alongside off-Coast guests, they shared a series of curated artist workshops, talks and open studios. Open Studios were drop-in events where artists shared skills and art materials with the public in a relaxed environment, alongside social activity at Persephone Brewing. Practices shared included: indigo dyeing and resists; cyanotype, cordage, block printing, botanical drawing, and tapestry weaving. Slow Social Clubs were curated workshops, where guest artists shared hands-on experiments and research from their artistic practice, alongside themed readings and discussion. Topics explored included: disability justice and mosaic mending; poetics of the colour blue; patchwork forests and wildfire; earth pigments and geological time.
The Growing Season connected gathering with the natural world, experimenting with textile and fibre materials, and explored where and how artistic practices can take place. It brought attention to decolonial approaches to viewing and interacting with plants as interconnected beings. It reminded us of the importance of living interdependently, and embracing all that the land is and provides.
