WELCOME TO APS
About
Artist Support for Exhibition, Funding, and Sustained Practice
Artist Professional Support (APS) provides structured support, programmes, and exhibition opportunities for artists and small organisations developing work for public presentation, funding, and sustained practice.
We work across disciplines, including visual art, performance, music, writing, and interdisciplinary practice.
Over 1,400 artists have been supported through exhibitions, programmes, and development.
We work at key points where ideas need to be clarified, applications strengthened, or work moved into a public context, offering practical support that leads to clear outcomes.
Our approach is shaped by artist led practice, access, and shared experience.
What We Do
APS operates across mentoring, programmes, and exhibitions. Programmes provide structured, longer term development through peer cohorts, critique, and public outcomes.
- Exhibitions and public presentations create opportunities to test and share work in real contexts.
- 1:1 support helps artists move work forward at key points.
Together, this creates a connected route from early ideas through to public presentation and funded projects. APS is designed to reduce barriers to exhibiting and funding by combining practical support with real opportunities to show work.
Why we do this
APS exists to address the gap between making work and being able to sustain it.
Too many artists have ideas and momentum but lack access to space, support, and opportunity. We run APS to create a structure where that work can be produced, tested, and developed without those barriers stopping it.
Who Is This For
Artists preparing funding applications
Artists developing work for public presentation
Artists needing structure, direction, or critical challenge
Organisations developing artist-led programmes
Programmes and Exhibitions
APS delivers exhibitions, cohort programmes, and artist development opportunities across multiple spaces.
These include open calls, structured programmes, and partnership projects, offering clear entry points depending on where you are in your practice.
Offers
1:1 Mentoring
Focused sessions to develop work, applications, or direction across disciplines
Critique
Targeted feedback on specific works, projects, or texts
Programme Support
Advisory and development support for artist-led programmes and organisations
If you are developing work for funding or public presentation and need structured support, book a session or get in touch.
We are building what artists need now.
The Mill Gallery
Unit 5 Cardinal House
Swinnow Grange Mills
Leeds
LS13 4EP
