Residency Programme
Motor House Arts is set in the remarkable Arts and Crafts village of East Rounton, North Yorkshire, a landscape of unique history that offers visiting artists and students both seclusion and stimulus. Our residency programme is designed for serious practitioners: tailored, unhurried, and connected to one of England’s richest cultural regions, and with access to some of its most important landmarks.
Residents have access to all studios and workshop facilities throughout their stay. Accommodation is available on-site, in up to four double rooms at The Motor House itself, and with additional off-site accommodation for larger groups or longer placements.
We can organise transport across the region, enabling participants to engage directly with other arts organisations, museums, and galleries, and to enable workshops and debates.
Arts and cultural organisations in our region
The Auckland Project - A flagship cultural and regeneration initiative in Bishop Auckland itself, encompassing the Mining Art Gallery, the Spanish Gallery, Faith Museum, Auckland Castle and Auckland Park, together representing one of the most ambitious cultural projects in England.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park - An internationally renowned open-air gallery and indoor spaces set within 500 acres of 18th-century parkland in West Bretton, housing major works by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, James Turrell and many others.
The Hepworth Wakefield - A major art gallery in Wakefield, with outstanding exhibitions and collections of modern and contemporary art, in a new David Chipperfield building.
Grizedale Arts - An innovative and internationally recognised residency and commissioning organisation in the Lake District, known for its commitment to socially engaged and site-specific practice.
The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art - One of the largest contemporary art spaces in the UK, situated on the Gateshead Quayside, presenting major national and international exhibitions across four floors, with spectacular views over the Tyne.
Harewood House - A magnificent 18th-century country house near Leeds with interiors by Robert Adam, surrounded by Capability Brown-designed landscape gardens and hosting a programme of contemporary art alongside its historic collections.
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) - An art gallery and museum presenting modern and contemporary art alongside a significant permanent collection, with a strong commitment to engaging the local community.
The Bowes Museum - A French château in the beautiful surroundings of Barnard Castle, housing a world-class collection of European fine and decorative arts including works by Goya, El Greco and Canaletto.
Shandy Hall - The former home of Laurence Sterne, author of Tristram Shandy, in Coxwold, North Yorkshire, a place of great literary and architectural character, housing the world's most complete collection of Sterne's published works.
Laing Art Gallery - Newcastle's principal fine art gallery, housing an important collection of British paintings, sculpture and decorative arts from the 18th century to the present day.
Shipley Art Gallery - A Gateshead gallery of considerable distinction, holding one of the finest provincial collections of Dutch and Flemish Old Master paintings in the UK, alongside a nationally recognised programme of contemporary craft.
Beamish, The Living Museum of the North - An open-air museum set across 350 acres in County Durham, recreating everyday life in the North East across four historic periods from the 1820s to the 1950s.
Durham Cathedral - One of the great Romanesque buildings of Europe and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Biscuit Factory - The UK's largest independent contemporary art, craft and design gallery, located in a converted Victorian warehouse in Newcastle's Ouseburn, with a constantly evolving programme of work by emerging and established artists.