From April 2025 to March 2026, we tested a new partnership with Theatre Centre that enabled the West Green Studios to come to life. Located at 1, Town Barn Road, West Green, Crawley the studios hosted 5 Residents Artists and 3 Associate Artists.
We are in discussion with Crawley Borough Council and other partners to try and secure the future of the studios but we know that it ill continue to be an creative makerspace until at least the end of March 2026.
Read about the current plans for West Green Studios HERE.
The resident artists had 24 hour access to the maker studios where they will be based for three months, developing their work and contributing to the creative life of Crawley.
Karl Singporewala is an architecht and royal academician.
In 2024, he founded Karl Singporewala + the design bureau (KSdb) which currently has architectural projects in Crawley, London, Manchester, Bristol, Brighton and Berlin.
Karl was given a life-time honour in 2023 of being elected as an academician at the Royal West of England Academy of Art (RWA). He is a chartered architect with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and currently presides on the board of trustees of Theatre Centre, a national leading theatre company based in Crawley which brings world-class theatre straight into the heart of schools and commissions new writing from trailblazing young writers.
Karl’s artwork is held in collection world-wide including the RWA, Bristol and Hamilton Princess Bermuda. Select gallery exhibitions include the Saatchi Gallery, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, V&A Digital Futures, the New York Institute of Technology, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Upcoming exhibitions include a major new solo show at the SOAS Gallery, London in July 2025. The show will include a mixture of new large-scale commissions and select works from the past 18 years.
Beth Williams is a queer, disabled designer and multi-disciplinary artist based in Crawley, West Sussex. Who specialises in Living Textiles, biodesign and knitwear. Their practice centres around their experience of an inaccessible world, as well as the relationship between human and environmental sustainability. Their living textiles and garments grow alongside them. They collaborate to raise questions about the lifespan of clothing, and ask their audience to consider what happens at the end of a garment’s use by presenting an alternative afterlife through their living garments.
Sophie is a fashion and bridalwear designer raised in Crawley. She studied BA(Hons) Fashion Design at the University of Salford, graduating in 2023. Her concepts are influenced by personal experience with philosophical and political undertones, manifesting into luxury womenswear. Sophie values the art and craftsmanship of the fashion design process and prioritises the production of wearable, long-lasting garments with extensive technical development. Her work was presented in the UoS x NYFW show at Pier 59 studios in 2020 and featured on WGSN and Harpers Bazaar Spain, and she exhibited work alongside Men’s Paris Fashion Week in 2023.
Maija is passionate about the positive impact of creativity. Her background is in conceiving, producing and promoting innovative projects and initiatives across new music and sound. She is currently developing work inspired and informed by local place and wellbeing. Projects include Positive Place: embedded creative wellbeing research and development (funded by Arts Council England). She lives in Lindfield.
Founded in 1953 by Brian Way and Margaret Faulks, we’ve been a vital catalyst for youth leadership and creativity for over 70 years.
In this time, we’ve commissioned 108 writers and produced 237 plays. We have played to audiences of over 1 million in schools and theatres and we have worked with over 250,000 young people. Some of those young people are now working in the arts, running companies of their own, or in education teaching drama to the next generations.
We commission new writing from trailblazing writers, touring our shows directly into schools and theatres UK-wide, as well as running our year-round Future Makers activities. Future Makers brings young people, artists, and teachers together as creative collaborators, making space for young people to have agency.
We see access, equality, and representation as foundations of a fair society and work to dismantle exclusion and systemic injustice. We prioritise areas that are systemically underserved and excluded, removing economic and social barriers, and working where young people can benefit most. We celebrate the true creative diversity only the widest access can bring.
Kat Heath and Tara Boland are a theatre-making duo, specialising in immersive work, community projects, joy, weirdness and stupidity. They have previously created shows for Punchdrunk, Punchdrunk Enrichment, Secret Cinema, Swamp, the National Theatre and the National Portrait Gallery
After collaborating on projects at Punchdrunk Enrichment, including an interplanetary double decker bus and a magical museum, they are striking out to create their own work. Big hearted and full of fun, their new small scale tourable immersive show, developed with Creative Crawley, will be a campy homage to the British Seaside and faded happy memories.
Simon is a photographer, filmmaker and artist. He studied fine art in Birmingham and then went into TV production, working in motorsports for 7 years, he has been freelance since 2007. He has worked as an editor, camera person and he is currently exploring his own work as a photographer.
He moved to Crawley in 1999 when he got his first production job with Formula 1. He has lived here ever since. He is part of the WORDfest Crawley committee which he has been part of since the very beginning in 2011.
