The Working Class Creatives Database

Open call for submissions to our first collective artwork as Working Class Creatives .

🧷 Submit up to 5 badge designs

📩 Send digitally or post physical badges

🗓 Deadline: 30/06/2026

👉 Full details + how to apply: link in bio

❓Questions? email us : [email protected]

Tag someone who should be part of this 💥

A few weeks back we hosted a wonderful workshop at Tate Britain , exploring community building, art and protest through badge making.




Big thanks to everyone who came alone, to for allowing us to take some reference materials along with us. To Michael and the team at Tate for the support.

More of this please !!

Credits : Making It: Creative Futures Festival, 2026, Tate Britain, Dan Weill Photography

Working-class creatives face real barriers in the accessing the arts : from access to education, lack of studio spaces, no networks in the industry and fewer opportunities for connection.

Our Members Map was made so you can find peers nearby to share skills, collaborate, and continue building the work our supportive community, in person.

Our directors are based in Hull and London, and operate across the UK with a strong presence in both the North and South, hosting events, exhibitions, and residencies for our members.

While our network is global, our focus over the past 5 years has been on connecting and empowering working-class creatives locally and nationally. Though we try to host online regularly too.

Explore the full map on our website where you can sign up as a member, or as a supporter too. We heard 2026 is the year to be a part of community that puts working-class creatives at the forefront. 👀🤝

Working-class creatives face real barriers in the arts from limited access to education, shrinking studio spaces, to fewer opportunities for connection. 🌍

Our Member Map helps you find peers nearby, share skills, collaborate, and build a supportive community. Our directors are based in Hull and London, and operate across the UK with a strong presence in both the North and South, hosting events, exhibitions, and residencies. While our network is global, our focus remains on connecting and empowering working-class creatives locally and nationally.

Explore the full map on our website and be part of a community that puts working-class creatives at the forefront.

Introducing some of our new working class creatives members who joined this March! 🌟

Our membership is made up of such a wide range of creatives; sculptors, designers, painters, performers, cultural workers and more! People from different generations, experiences and places across the UK, all coming together to form our amazing community!

Now with over 2000 creatives built on connections, support and shared opportunities!



mindel sarah art

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If you want to be a part of our community follow the link in our bio to sign up!

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For international women’s day, we wanted to highlight some working class women across the U.K. who have inspired us to continue creating, resource sharing, community building and representing the creativity us working class folk have.

Standing up to patriarchy is a big ask in a small art world, especially when you have limited time, money, resources and networks. While women make up 66%–70% of art students, they are underrepresented in professional careers and senior positions. So continue, showing up, and speaking up 💥

And remember, if you have skills to share, networks to offer, leads in the art world - you can sign up as a supporter on our website to help us build a fairer future for all.

Lots of love !

Working class Creatives

✨DIY-ISM is all about building community, creating opportunities and making things happen together✨

What started as a need for connection has grown into a space where working-class creatives can share skills, ideas and conversations around access to the arts. Through this we discovered a love for curation and producing events for our members. And we’ve been lucky to collaborate with some incredible people along the way.

Our DIY-ISM guide is here to help others self organise and bring their ideas to life. These are just some highlights from our zine, which we take to workshops. The full Manifesto is available on our shop and if you’d like a badge making or screen printing workshop drop us an email!!

DIY-ISM is all about building community, creating opportunities and making things happen together.

What started as a need for connection has grown into a space where working-class creatives can share skills, ideas and conversations around access to the arts. Through this we discovered a love for curation and producing events for our members. And we’ve been lucky to collaborate with some incredible people along the way.

Our DIY-ISM guide is here to help others self organise and bring their ideas to life. These are just some highlights from our zine, which we take to workshops.

The full Manifesto is available on our shop and if you’d like a badge making or screen printing workshop drop us an email!!

⭐ Check out some of the incredible events we’ve had the pleasure of working on over the years! ⭐

We’ve been so lucky to collaborate with amazing partners and host workshops, talks, and exhibitions across the UK supporting working-class creatives and making art accessible to all. From our early days as two art students searching for a community, to now supporting over 2000 creatives, it’s been an incredible journey.

Thank you to all our collaborators for helping make this possible!

If you would like to work with us on an event our inbox is always open ✉️

Working Class Creatives Members Highlights:
6 sculptors we have our eyes on 👀⭐️💫 selected by our co-founder .le

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‘Over the past five years of Working Class Creatives, it has been a joy to follow the journeys of our members, both longstanding and new. Watching their practices evolve and encountering their work in exhibitions across the U.K. has been a real privilege. These sculptors bring forward vital narratives and histories that are too often overlooked within the art world through incredibly considered and insightful works, reminding us why contemporary art is important to see, and support. Just imagine a show with these works in 💭👀’

Give the artists a follow and check their websites!

If you’re a working class sculptor, let us know in the comments ⬇️ 🤩