Artist Studios

Step into a creative ecosystem designed to help you grow.

A bright art workspace with a white wall displaying colorful geometric shapes and folded paper models, a desk with cutting mats, papers, and art supplies, and two wooden chairs.

Our individual studios at Devonport Guildhall are more than just workspaces - they’re part of a subsidised Creative Exchange Programme that connects you to mentoring, collaboration, and real routes to market.

Alongside historic studio spaces and specialist print facilities, you’ll gain access to immersive tech opportunities through the Market Hall’s cutting-edge dome, plus networking events, masterclasses, and annual showcases. Whether you’re emerging or established, this is your chance to create, connect, and thrive within the Creative Quarter community.

Creative Exchange Programme Benefits

Join a subsidised studio programme designed to help you grow and connect within the Devonport Creative Quarter at Devonport Guildhall. As part of this unique opportunity, you’ll enjoy:

  • Affordable Studio Space – Individual or shared studios at reduced rates
  • Mentoring & Networking – Guidance from industry professionals and access to Real Ideas’ creative networks
  • Showcase Opportunities – Test and exhibit your work, including immersive tech experiences at the Market Hall dome
  • Specialist Facilities – Access to printmaking and other creative resources (additional fees apply)
  • Community & Collaboration – Shared spaces, group meetings, and a supportive creative environment
  • Events & Development – Annual Creative Quarter Summer Show, discounted masterclasses, and a tailored development plan
Start your journey today...

Looking for a studio but not quite sure which one is right for you? No problem! Express your interest to arrange a tour, ask questions, and explore the spaces — we’ll help you find the perfect fit for your creative practice.

Studio availability

Check out what’s available and apply today to join our creative community, see below our current studios available:

Empty room with wood-patterned paneled walls, a metal table, and stained glass windows near the ceiling.

Studio 11

Individual or Shared Studio Space

Price: Standard Studio: £290 per month / Creative Exchange Programme: £230 per month

Studio Specification: Studio pods within the communal main hall, potential for public access and exhibiting.

Price Includes: Part of Devonport Creative Quarter Community, utilities, Wifi, access to communal kitchen and shared spaces, 24/7 access, waste disposal, exhibiting space & routes to market and networking

Empty room with wood-patterned paneled walls, a metal table, and stained glass windows near the ceiling.

Studio 12

Individual or Shared Studio Space

Price: Standard Studio: £290 per month / Creative Exchange Programme: £230 per month

Studio Specification: Studio pods within the communal main hall, potential for public access and exhibiting.

Price Includes: Part of Devonport Creative Quarter Community, utilities, Wifi, access to communal kitchen and shared spaces, 24/7 access, waste disposal, exhibiting space & routes to market and networking

Empty room with beige floor, white walls, slanted ceiling, large window, and fluorescent ceiling lights.

Studio 15

Individual/ Shared / Collective - Studio

Space Size:
31m2

Price: Standard Studio: £580 per month / Creative Exchange Programme: £460 per month

Studio Specification: Large attic space suitable for individuals or sharing

Price Includes: Part of Devonport Creative Quarter Community, Utilities, Wifi, access to communal kitchen & seating areas, 24/7 access, waste disposal, exhibiting space & routes to market and networking

Empty stone-walled room with arched ceiling, two large blank whiteboards on the walls, and fluorescent lighting.

Studio 7

Individual or Shared Studio

Price:
Standard Studio: £230 per month / Creative Exchange Programme: £185 per month

Studio Specification: Large studio cell with potential for public access and exhibiting.

Price Includes: Part of Devonport Creative Quarter Community, utilities, Wifi, access to communal kitchen and shared spaces, 24/7 access, waste disposal, exhibiting space & routes to market and networking

Start your journey...

Not quite sure which studio is right for you? No problem! Express your interest to arrange a tour, ask questions, and explore the spaces — we’ll help you find the perfect fit for your creative practice.

Express Your Interest

Our creative community.

Learn about the artists, makers and creatives in Devonport Creative Quarter

Suzanne Drummond
Suzanne Drummond
Printer, Artist, and Maker

Suzanne Drummond is a Printer, Artist, and Maker working primarily in screen printing. After completing a BA in Textile Design and an MA in Fine Art Printmaking, she developed a practice exploring relationships between architecture, memory, and place. Her work uses layered colour and form inspired by buildings and urban environments. Through transparency, repetition, and surface, her prints are contemplative, methodical yet intuitive, and invite close observation of the built world.

Barton Hargreaves
Barton Hargreaves
Printmaker

Barton Hargreaves is an artist printmaker working across digital and traditional methods, blending etching, screen print and digital processes in installations and prints. Recent projects include ‘Sentinels’, etchings of Dartmoor hawthorn, and ‘Glitch’, charcoal screenprints of an abandoned market garden. An RCA graduate, he has taught at the RA Schools, now teaches at Arts University Plymouth, and exhibits widely, including prize-winning work at the RA.

Sian Bonnell
Sian Bonnell
Photographic Artist

Sian Bonnell aims to challenge our ideas around the nature of art and its subject-matter.She is concerned with photography and its relations with performance/performing for the camera; sculpture/the object and the camera and the dissemination of the photographic image and its function regarding curation, publishing and the book. Working with available objects and spaces, she sees her camera as her “partner in crime – my provocateur; it dares me to do things.”

Jess Van Baalen
Jess Van Baalen
Artist, Printmaker & Illustrator

Jess Van Baalen is an artist and printmaker inspired by nature, folklore, and storytelling. Since graduating from Brighton University in 2022 with a degree in Illustration, she has focused on combining the natural world with narrative and myth. Drawn to the tactile process of lino printing, she creates bold, textured work that celebrates landscape, cultural stories, and everyday magic.

Matt Holmes
Matt Holmes
Designer, Maker & Researcher

Matt Holmes is a Designer, Maker & Researcher working at the intersection of letterpress printing and digital manufacturing. He's undertaking a PhD in Digital Arts and Technology, focusing on digital fabrication's impact on heritage crafts. His research explores craft authenticity in the digital age and how technology can protect or evolve traditional practices. Matt creates accessible tools to preserve and democratise letterpress, and has presented internationally.

George Meyrick
George Meyrick
Sculptor & Draughtsman

George Meyrick has been creating innovative sculptures since the mid-seventies, transforming flat geometric forms into striking three-dimensional works. His elegant, colourful wall constructions explore the boundaries between line, plane, and solid, often offering multiple ways of interpretation. George’s art invites viewers to question perception, as his pieces can be reoriented to reveal new spatial relationships and meanings.