We are D6: Culture in Transit, visual arts producers with a rooted local presence and established international reach. Our work is co-produced with artists and partners and focused on societal issues that concern and connect us. Through artistic exchange and commissions, we draw threads between communities of difference and explore international common ground with partners across continents.
New ideas, understanding and exchange lie at the heart of what we do. We support artists whose practice as research represents an exploration of society at the intersection of migration, environmental sustainability, gender, social justice, race, institutional practice and decolonisation. We build relationships, practice and programmes with rigour, care and generosity, creating spaces to enable a deeper understanding of multiple lived experiences and perspectives.
New ideas, understanding and exchange lie at the heart of what we do. We support artists whose practice as research represents an exploration of society at the intersection of migration, environmental sustainability, gender, social justice, race, institutional practice and decolonisation. We build relationships, practice and programmes with rigour, care and generosity, creating spaces to enable a deeper understanding of multiple lived experiences and perspectives.
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Join the conversation on colonial heritage - closes 7 MayCalling visual artists based in the North of England with a deep interest in unravelling colonial legacies - be part of a programme that challenges the past to co-create more inclusive futures through contemporary art.
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WE WeLCOMe PARIA GOODARZIWe warmly welcome Paria Goodarzi as our artist in residence. She develops collaborative, participatory and socially engaged art projects exploring cultural and political transfers, identity and displacement.
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CORE MARKS BY KATE SWEENEYWe are delighted to share new artwork by Kate Sweeney as part of her research residency exploring ways queer and adoptive heritages occupy shifting spaces, traversing traditional notions of inheritance.
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CURRENT programme
CONTESTED DESIRES: CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUESThis programme considers the problematic legacy of European colonialism through artistic production, exchange and learning between artists, curators, museums and audiences across continents.
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(RE)GroundingA residency programme between D6 and IZOLYATSIA (Ukraine), (Re)Grounding explores the social, political and environmental injustices of the climate crisis, asking what must be done to bring about the drastic change needed.
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SANCTUARY AND CULTURESanctuary and Culture seeks to support artists with lived experience of displacement, and build the capacity of the local cultural sector.
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OPPORTUNITIESWe offer regular opportunities through residencies, commissions, collaborations, internships and partnerships. Click here to find out more
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Images: Henna Asikainen, Future Pasts. Photo: Simone J Rudolphi | CO2 Curtain, Alexandra Clod. Photo: Saya Rose Media | (Re)Grounding community meal. Photo: Saya Rose Media | Zariq Rosita-Hanif in performance at the Star and Shadow for ACT. Photo: Amelia Read | Who can see Persephone, Alexandra Clod | Henna Asikainen, Future Pasts. Photo: Saya Rose Media | Lucy Nychai, Systems of Defence. Photo: Matt Denham | (Dearly) Beloved, Akeelah Betram, performance for Contested Desires. Photo: Jorge Pereira