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We are excited to welcome our private opening guests tonight!
Our doors open at 6.30pm.
Thank you!🧡
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We are excited to welcome our private view guests to our exhibition opening tonight!
Reminder - our Winter Exhibition 2025 is closed this weekend due to staff illness, but we will be open 11am-3pm Monday to Friday this week! See you then 😃
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NNENA KALU WINS THE TURNER PRIZE!
We are so thrilled about this news! Nnena Kalu has won the Turner Prize 2025 and it feels like such a brilliant, joyful moment for the whole arts community. Her work is full of colour, movement and life, and seeing it recognised at this level is just amazing.
Nnena has been creating with ActionSpace for many years, and her win shows what can happen when learning disabled and neurodivergent (LD/ND) artists are given space, trust and long-term creative support. It is a powerful reminder that LD/ND artists are shaping contemporary art in bold and important ways.
At Prism, we are feeling so inspired. Moments like this remind us why our studios matter and why artist-led practice is at the heart of everything we do. It makes us excited for the ideas our creatives are dreaming up right now and the journeys they are on.
For our artists, and for LD/ND creatives across the country, Nnena’s win sends a clear and uplifting message. Your work has value. Your voice belongs in these national spaces. The cultural landscape is shifting, and you are part of that change.
We are celebrating Nnena, celebrating ActionSpace and celebrating every artist who keeps creating, exploring and pushing their practice forward.✨
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Turner Prize 2025: Nnena Kalu earns 'historic' win
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Kalu wins for her sculptures and drawings, becoming the first learning disabled artist to scoop the award.3 CommentsComment on Facebook
Important Update: Our Winter Exhibition 2025 will now be closed on the weekend due to staff illness, but still open to the public on Monday 15th - Friday 19th (11am - 3pm)! ... See MoreSee Less
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Nottingham Castle by Nigel Hayman, A2 in watercolour and marker pen. 🌲🌳 Nigel says “I chose this as it is a historical landmark and very nice looking building.”
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We are winding down getting ready for the summer break, and we’ve had three beautiful fresh feeling pieces from the studio today.
Abstract paper collage by Rosie Thompson.
Watercolour folklore creature by Tom Hanley.
Expressive paint stick mark making by Molly Prince.
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Weighing in at almost 1.5 km (and what is estimated to be over 4km of yarn) is Catherine Quilter’s latest giant Pom Pom ! 🧶🌀💫
Catherine has been working away at creating this across multiple weeks and today it was finally cut and shaped after many hours of hard work wrapping yarn and plastic ribbon.
This is the next in a sequence of Pom Poms this artist has made, and is the biggest yet! ✨
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Paul Leith inspired workshop. 🌞 Today we had a cracking morning spent looking at local artist and colour maestro @paul_leith for inspiration. ✨
We enjoyed watching a short documentary about the artist and spotting local Carlisle landmarks, which also feature heavily in his artworks. 🟩
Using paper cut collage to replicate the artist’s bold graphic style, each artist worked also with their own distinctive styles to depict landscapes and characters.
Artists as shown:
🔸 Michael Shepherd
🔹 Andrew Evans
🔸 Tom Hanley
🔹 Rosie Thompson
🔸 Nigel Hayman
🔹 Andrew Evans
🔸 Michael Shepherd
🔹 Catherine Quilter
🔸 JYMA
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JYMA has continued developing his digital illustrative style and has created many fruitful digital series of works. As with his analogue created artwork he covers many topics, from political statements and social activism through to charming representations of day to day life.
Within this collection are his “All Sorts” pieced which demonstrate a message for equality through a witty lens.
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Beautiful new marine themed piece by Stuart Iriving, measuring 100 x 81 cm, was created using a variety of layered techniques ranging from acrylic paint, pastels and paint pens.
Resulting in a large rich artwork Stuart continues with full strength to create art based off imagery from his travels.
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Another studio day, another amazing day as artists in residence at @tulliecarlisle 😎🌟 Our artists who create on Thursdays have visited their artwork throughout Tullie and have brought more creativity and colour to the Tullie City Hall Studio.
Not only that, but the Thursday crew were part of an incredible live-streamed tour of the exhibition as part of peer group ‘Explorers Network’ … more on that soon!
There’s still 3 more days to visit and check out the artwork yourself, open during Tullie hours and throughout all of their free to access spaces. 🌀
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Throughout this week you are able to watch on the big screen Thomas Joseph Hanley’s charming stop motion animation “Planet of the Shapes” at @tulliecarlisle in the Lecture Hall (accessed via the old Tullie building).
Tom has been working hard throughout the year to create parts 1 and 2 of his original sci-fi story - and the results are fantastic.
An avid world builder, Tom looked to one his key creative inspirations of Oliver Postgate to create work in a traditional style, choosing soft colour pencils and paper cut shapes to create a tactile imaginative animation story.
If you aren’t able to make it to Tullie, both parts 1 and 2 are available to watch on our YouTube channel, just search for ‘Prism Arts’!
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As part of our artist residency at @tulliecarlisle we have had the pleasure of visiting their current dinosaur exhibition, here are some fantastic textural dinosaur inspired artwork.
Artists as shown:
Katie Rudd
Marina Arnott
Connie Dodds
Millie
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“Tullie feels like our second home for Prism.”
- Millie, studio artist
Tuesday at Tullie. 😎 Our amazing young person studio group had a fantastic day as artists in residence at @tulliecarlisle as part of our exhibition of artwork across the building. 🌞
Our artists took a tour of all the artwork, including the amazing showreel in the lecture hall, and created some group work in the city hall studio.
The exhibition continues to be open across all the free to access spaces at Tullie for the rest of the week and weekend - who knows, you may even see some artists in residence!
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We will also be featuring artwork created by our artists whilst in residence at @tulliecarlisle this week, running alongside our stunning exhibition of original artwork.
What better to start with than this lush piece created by Molly Prince using paint sticks on A2 paper.
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It’s open! 🥳💫 PRISM 2025 is now officially open all week to the public across all the free to access spaces at @tulliecarlisle 🌞 We kicked off the week and had our first group of artists in residence in the Tullie studio space, where they also had the immense pleasure of checking out their artwork in situ.
Make a day of it and explore the newly refurbished Tullie and cafe, and enjoy experiencing the incredible selection of artwork for yourself. ✨🌞
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“Cores” by Ellz O’Roarty. 🌞
“This is aesthetic cores, with emojis that represent the cores.”
[Art pens on paper: 104 x 76 cm.]
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![“Cores” by Ellz O’Roarty. 🌞
“This is aesthetic cores, with emojis that represent the cores.”
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![“Cores” by Ellz O’Roarty. 🌞
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A4 gelli print by Andrew Evans. Using his illustrative practise Andrew created this print by combing both drawn elements onto the gelli block along with swathes of his favoured colours. ➿
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JYMA has been working on a series of digital illustrations inspired by locations and memories of his childhood growing up in the area.
These drawings also serve as research for an ambitious larger project that is in the works. 💫
JYMA has also provided additional information with each piece.
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Two expressive acrylic paintings by Molly Prince. 🤩 Molly has been rapidly developing her creative practise by branching out her mark making artwork with the use of acrylic paint.
These two, the first A2 and the second at A3, exemplify her passion for bold, dense layers of colour.
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Why Your Support Matters
At Prism, we believe everyone has the right to be creative — to express themselves, tell their own story, and take up space in the cultural life of their community.
We are a charity based in Carlisle, running a supported studio for learning disabled and neurodivergent people across Cumbria. Our artists paint, print, perform, write, direct, build, and create work that deserves to be seen, heard, and respected.
But our work is about more than just art. It’s about building confidence, supporting independence, and challenging the outdated idea that creativity belongs to only a few.

















