This research takes as its central concern the notion of the artist's studio as an influential and active site of production. The studio always exists in states of change, under pressure to adapt to economic and physical changes within current and potential future climates of contemporary artistic production. These changes in production continually offer new models of considering the artist's space, the role of that space in production, and its reliance upon traditional forms of spatial provision

The concept of 'residency' offers the template for an effective examination of the changes taking place in the production, exchange and consumption of contemporary art, and an insight into alternative models of resource provision. This examination allows an exploration of the time and the space being provided to artists, and located by artists, for the production of work.

Through an understanding of the spatial and temporal constraints on artistic production, and the respective application of these constraints as catalysts for the production and dissemination of contemporary art, this research seeks to provide a practice-based curatorial interrogation of contemporary art processes and practice.