Access Space is the UK's longest running and most sustainable free, open digital arts lab.
At Access Space, people interested in art, design, computers, recycling, music, electronics, photography and meet more like-minded people, share and develop skills and work on creative, enterprising and technical projects.
We operate at a very low cost with a minimal carbon footprint, because we recycle donated computers and use free, open source software. We run drop-in activities and workshops, exhibitions and arts events and have opportunities for volunteering. We also run the Refab Space fabrication facility and an ethical web design service.
Read more about our ethos...
See our news feed below or the drop down menu above for upcoming events, exhibitions and workshops.
Laser Cutting
We can:
- Cut, Mark or Engrave your designs on a range of materials
- Prepare your designs for swift, laser ready, artwork
- Support your making and offer tuition
If you can draw it we can help you make it!
Using sheet materials up to 650mm x 400mm:
- MDF
- Plywoods
- Perpex
- Polypro
We accept artwork in .svg and .dxf formats
Inclusive hourly rate - Call Access Space for more details
Sheffield Hardware Hackers
Scott Hawkins' Refab Space Residency starts today 12th Feb
Scott's residency is called F L I G H T F O R M. He will make a short presentation about his interest in boomerangs this Friday 15th Feb at 3pm. This will be an opportunity to see some of his current boomerang designs and learn a little of the basics of spinning flight.
Check out his website www.redfrogboomerangs.com
For his residency he will be researching the production of boomerangs and other products in Refab Space. These will include auto-rotating gyroscopic sailplanes and gliders. The designs, ideas and experience are derived and developed from Scott’s own small commercial enterprise and current experience as a boomerang designer maker.
Scott is also interested in philosophical objects and the exploration and understanding of three-dimensional form beyond or aside from the traditional perspectives of art and design
There will be an exhibition in Access Space foyer from March 8th.
Open Platform 3 Fri 22nd Feb!!
We welcome back the fabulous Open Platform for a third time.
Performers so far at this random access performance are:
Richard Bolam, Robin Close, Martyn Eggleton, Stuart Faulkner & Susanne Palzer.
RSVP at the Facebook event http://www.facebook.com/events/141493129341898/
Urban Fabric & Refab Cormorant
- Opening: 5:30pm-8:00pm, Access Space Foyer
- Exhibition: 26th January - 21st February
Puppet makers Emma Powell & Meg Buick created “Refab Cormorant”, an articulated cormorant puppet, during their time as Access Space artists in residence in December 2012. Read more at http://refabcormorant.wordpress.com
Brazilian artist and architect Gabriel Menotti used his 2012 “Urban Fabric” residency at Access Space to ask the question “Would you like to build another Sheffield?” He used Refabspace's rapid prototyping technologies to create a model of an imaginary Cultural Industries Quarter, as a means to foster critical dialogue.
New Artists in Residence!!
Puppet makers Emma Powell and Meg Buick are our Refab Space artists in residence for December. They will be creating a new work, probably an animal of some kind, for exhibition in the Foyer in January 2013. We're really looking forward to the result…we have a suspicion it may be a sea bird!!
Check out their residency blog
Solder Something: Drawdio
Soldering workshops with Dominic Morrow of Nottingham Hackspace coming soon to Access Space. First Session 1st November 2012, create an electronic musical pencil!
