20% DISCOUNT
We are delighted that in 2024 we can offer a 20% discount on all holiday accommodation bookings for people working in Arts & Culture, Activism, Ecology, Agriculture and Educational sectors.
This initiative is part of Fieldwork Studios x Slade Farm Organic’s dedication to increasing access to rural spaces.
Book via: Slade Farm Holiday Cottages
20% Discount Code: FIELDWORK
* Please note: The holiday let accommodation is a regular income stream for the farm and is in high demand. We are only able to offer subsidised residencies when we secure funding. This discount offer only applies until December 2024.
* This is an automated booking system (and not managed by the Fieldwork team), so if you would like Phoebe and the wider Slade Farm Organics team to know you are planning a visit please email us directly at fieldwkstudio@gmail.com.
Staying at Slade Farm
Slade Farm offers holiday self catering accommodation for a range of budgets, from the Hen House (sleeps 5), Shepherd Hut (sleeps 2) and Slade Cottage (sleeps 9). We are situated on the award winning Heritage Coast in the Vale of Glamorgan, just a few minutes walk from Dunraven Bay on the Wales Coastal Path.
View our accomodation here > Slade Holiday Cottages
Our accommodation is suitable for holidays, retreats, team away weekends, or self-led residencies. It is a perfect location to take time out, pause, relax and reflect.
** If you are booking accommodation and require extra space for workshops or rehearsals, please email fieldwkstudio@gmail.com so we can signpost you to local space hire facilities
Fieldwork Residencies & Retreats
The Fieldwork residencies aim to centre the needs of artists; artistically, socially and economically, offering space and support for people to reflect and take time to realise their ideas without prescribed outcomes.
Our funded residencies are shaped by the “Organic Agriculture Principles” and are responsive to:
The needs of the artists we work for and with
Our environmental context, as we learn how to best work in this location
The needs of the Fieldwork team
Our residency programme is in development. Our vision is to host an annual residency which will be fully funded, with parallel strands offering subsidised rental and hire accommodation. We are currently fundraising to support our fully funded residencies, so that invited artists are paid appropriately for their time and have access to the resources they need.
Since 2021 we have had the privilege of supporting:
Artist Residencies 2024: Serafine 1369 & Metal & Water / Qila Gill ~ Marginalia Pictures
Artist Residencies 2023: Jenny Moore ~ WildMix / Beth Kettel
Artist & Producer Retreat 2023: Marine Thévenet & Cifas / Rebecca Davies & Portland Inn Project / Jo Matthews & Scottish Sculpture Workshop / Felicity Crawshaw
Artist Residencies 2022: Freya Dooley & Cinzia Mutigli
Artist Residencies 2021: Seyi Adelekun / Joseph June Bond / Qila Gill / Marie Malarie / Wet Mess / Rose Nordin / Keziah Quarcoo
All residencies are currently hosted at the Hen House. The Hen House is best suited to research and writing residencies as there is no allocated “wet” studio space.
Crop Rotation is the practice of growing a series of different types of crops in the same area across a sequence of growing seasons, which increases the overall biodiversity in the soil and farm.
This rotation includes stages of Nutrient Growth (by fixing nutrients into the soil) followed by Arable Cropping (to cultivate and harvest crops).
The timescale of a crop rotation depends on the Nutrient Density of the field.
As an artist-led organisation our Nutrient Density is determined by our team’s health & energy, our budgets and our programme commitments. As our context evolves our program adapts.
Our hosted residencies follow the pattern of Slade Farm Organics’ 7 Year Crop Rotation.
From 2021-2025, we will dedicate 5 years to Nutrient Growth, investing in our environment and process. Our residencies will offer space and support artists who align with either our arts and ecological research initiatives or the Bhebhe&Davies Education Programme and the collaborative relationships which have shaped the Fieldwork studio. These fully funded residency will be made through invitation.
This will be followed by a variety of Arable Cropping over 2 years, in which we will cultivate a series of open call residencies to broaden the reach and impact of our support for artists.
Pete, Sunrise Shepherding
Performance to camera, Dunraven Bay, 2020