Tintype is an established contemporary art space with a reputation for artistic innovation and integrity. It has a proven track record of supporting the work of UK based and international artists through a programme that is led by artists’ practices. Talks, performance events, breakfasts, workshops, and walks, are a regular feature of the gallery program, all open-access and free.
Tintype has a history of presenting exhibitions and organising events that have a strong element of pubic engagement. Initiatives that began as an experiment have become part of the gallery’s ongoing program.
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Tintype has developed the Essex Road project, an annual commission for eight moving-image artists to make short films that are a response to the mile-long street on which the gallery is based. The films are back-projected into the gallery window so it becomes a public screen. In August, when the gallery is closed, an artist is invited to use the gallery’s large glass window to install a work. We try to offer a project space to an artist once a year and are currently developing this as an external project.