When?
Tuesday 30 September 2025
What time?
1 - 4 PM
Where?
Impressions Gallery, Bradford
How much?
FREE
(donations welcome)
Visual artists and arts producers! Let's get together to explore ways of working together to enhance our work, projects and events through creative collaboration.
Are you an artist and want to increase the scale of your projects, and need some support? Or are you a producer and want to work with visual artists? Perhaps both of you would like to learn more about how you might connect with one another!Â
Join our Visual Arts Instigator, Alison McIntyre, for a panel discussion on the role of producers in the world of visual arts. We’ll be talking with a range of curators, producers and artists about how they initially connected and how they now work together. There’ll also be an opportunity to ask them your questions and to discuss some of the key themes in groups.
During this event, we will
- Demystify the role of the Visual Arts Producer and explore the similarities and differences between what producers and curators do
- Explore the different ways that producers, curators and artists work together
- Discuss the key challenges for visual artists working with producers and creators, and vice versa
Event schedule:
12.30 – Arrive, grab a drink and have a chat
13.00 – Discussion panel followed by Q&A
14.30 – Break
14.45 – Group discussions
15.30 – Feedback and wrap-upÂ
16.00 – Event ends
Book your place
This event is free to attend, but places are limited. Though tickets are free, we estimate the value at around £38 per person. Any donations – large or small – are gratefully welcomed to help Bradford Producing Hub continue to support artists and creatives across the district.
Meet the panel
Anna Turzynski
Anna Turzynski is the Arts Director at Sunny Bank Mills in Farsley, Leeds -a unique cultural destination with a contemporary art gallery and museum. Based in a former textile mill, Sunny Bank hosts almost 50 artist studios, creative courses, community engagement and events.
Read more about Anna
Anna oversees the gallery, shop, artist studios and incredible events programme across Sunnybank Mills. Previously, a Senior Producer at LEEDS 2023: Year of Culture, Anna produced signature projects including The WOW Barn, The Awakening & The Gifting. She spent ten years working as a freelance producer in Leeds, working for companies like Compass Live Art, Leeds Playhouse and East Street Arts. As well as artists such as Ellie Harrison and Hannah Buckley. Her expertise lies in large-scale cross-artform producing and bringing work to unconventional spaces. After growing up in Brighton, Anna moved to Leeds to study Theatre and Performance at the University of Leeds and has championed the city ever since. She is passionate about making arts and culture more accessible to people and encouraging future generations of artists and producers to thrive in the industry.
Anne McNeill
Anne McNeill is the Director of Impressions Gallery in Bradford. Impressions Gallery is a charity that helps people to understand the world through photography and acts as an agent for change. They believe photography is for everyone. All their exhibitions and most of their events and workshops are free.
Andi Walker
Based in Leeds, UK, Andi Walker’s multidisciplinary practice crosses visual art, craft, and design, rooted in textiles as a site of memory, resistance, and repair. Their work challenges binary notions of gender through stitched narratives sited on the body and often situated within dance. Collaborating regularly with choreographers and dance companies, they explore the relationship between garment and movement.
Read more about Andi
Andi combines traditional textile techniques embroidery, appliqué, visible mending with experimental approaches to surface, drawing, and performance. Surface itself is a constant theme, where soft stitch is juxtaposed with hard materials to question comfort and protection.
They frequently lead inclusive, trauma-informed workshops that highlight the therapeutic power of stitch, particularly with LGBTQ+ individuals, neurodivergent makers, and those with lived experience of trauma. Sustainability is integral to their practice, which centres on reclaimed materials and collective making.
A graduate of Mixed Media Textiles from the Royal College of Art (2010), Andi creates work that invites reflection, honours process and holds space for the quiet power of shared stories.
Carolyn Mendelsohn
Carolyn is an artist and portrait photographer whose practice is rooted in telling stories and amplifying those quieter voices through co-produced portraits. Her portrait work has been selected, collected and exhibited internationally, within solo and group shows including Impressions Gallery, Bradford, IWM London and Manchester, Open Eye Liverpool, Portcullis House, UK Parliament, Royal Albert Hall, Galerie Huit Arles, France, Bologna, Unesco Paris.
Read more about Carolyn
Carolyn has been selected for the BJP’s Portrait of Britain and the RPS’s IPE, as well as winning first prize for the IPE 159, The Kuala Lumpa International Portrait Awards 2021, and being named the winner of the Portrait Series category for the 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards . Her work has been published widely and includes the following BBC, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, Le Monde, the British Journal of Photography, Photo Monitor. Huffington Post, Buzzfeed. She is recognised internationally for her work with young people, including her portrait series, exhibition and book Being Inbetween (2020), a series of portraits and stories of girls aged between 10-12 years, and Through Our Lens, an initiative that was developed by Carolyn working with and for young people, during the pandemic. It is a workshop and mentoring programme that enables people to tell their stories through the medium of photography. It has become recognised by Arts Council England and curators internationally as a model of best practice. She has recently been awarded the international prize for her photography work with young people by The Royal Photographic Society. Carolyn is currently a freelance photographer and the artist in Residence for Born In Bradford, one of the largest health research studies in the world. She is working on BiB Age of Wonder – Teenage Stories – a seven-year project capturing the journey through adolescence and adulthood for teenagers in Bradford, alongside this she works on personal projects, and portrait commissions. She is an Ambassador for Nikon Europe & The Royal Photographic Society and patron for Photo North.
Peter Reed
Peter Reed is the Director at Compass Festival and Programme Producer at Saltaire Inspired
Read more about Peter
Peter has worked as an independent producer for over 10 years supporting the work of Louise Ann Wilson Company, Common Wealth, Slung Low and Ellie Harrison’s Grief Series. He has overseen the development of Compass Live Art from a weekender festival in 2011 to the biennial commissioning festival it is today. Peter also works as the freelance Programme Producer at Saltaire Inspired, a visual arts charity the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Saltaire.
Suzie Jones
Suzie Jones is the Creative Producer at Meadow Arts.Â
Read more about Suzie
Suzie is a freelance Creative Producer and Programme Manager working in Mid-Wales and the West Midlands. She has supported creative practitioners and helped engage the public with art for nearly 15 years, previously holding roles at Crafts Council, Drawing Room and Arvon. Creative work has taken her all over, from a research trip in Marseille to exhibition production in Mexico City. Two years ago she left the city for a life in the countryside, inspired by the endless possibility for creative practice in rural settings, and keen to connect with the practitioners making work here.
About the venue
Impressions Gallery
Impressions Gallery is a charity that helps people to understand the world through photography and acts as an agent for change.Â
They believe photography is for everyone. All their exhibitions and most of their events and workshops are free.
FAQs
If you require financial support to enable you to attend this event, such as travel, childcare, caring or interpretation costs, please complete this online form. In this form, you may also apply for a bursary. For this half-day event, we can provide bursaries of up to £50.Â
So that we can support as many people as possible, please only apply for these funds if it’s something you really need.Â
We get it, life and work happens! If you have booked a place and can no longer attend, please drop us an email to let us know at hello@bdproducinghub.co.uk
Our events can often sell out, and we usually have people on a waiting list. By cancelling your place, we can offer your spot to someone on the list.
If you have made a donation (thank you!), please note that this cannot be refunded.Â
