Cultivating spaces for extraordinary artists

Home Based Artist Residency Open Call


DASH x Compton Verney Home Based Situated Practice Artist Residency
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DASH are partnering with Compton Verney, Warwickshire on the pilot 2026 Home Based Situated Practice (HBSP) Artist Residency open call inviting applications in response to the exhibition, Troublemakers and Prophets: Elizabeth Allen and Other Visionary Artists to take place at Compton Verney next year 28 March - 30 August 2026.

Compton Verney holds the largest collection of British Folk Art in the UK, including a work by Elizabeth Allen (1883 – 1967), or ‘Queen’ as she chose to be known, who made textile works using everyday items she had to hand; possibly intended to convey messages decoded from the Bible, apocryphal books and news media to a future audience.

As part of the residency, the selected artist will be commissioned to produce a new digital artwork, or a recontextualization of an existing work that may include new elements to be included in the physical exhibition and activated through a hybrid public event.

The new digital commission would sit alongside works by Elizabeth Allen, and could explore themes that may include, but are not limited to:

  • Materiality
  • Rurality
  • Non-traditional forms of communication
  • Communities as care
  • Storytelling
  • Sickness
  • Domesticity
  • Spirituality
  • Neurodiversity
  • Networks and portals
  • Cultural transcription
  • World-building
  • Dispossession


The stated date of 13 June 2026 for the hybrid (online and in-person) public in-conversation event related to the HBSP residency is now subject to change and is likely to take place in Spring/Summer 2026. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Who can apply

  • We are looking for an artist who is currently living in the West Midlands but is based from the home.

  • We are particularly interested in receiving applications from artists who live and work in rural parts of the West Midlands region.

  • Visual artists who encounter access barriers to ‘traditional’ in-person opportunities offered by bricks-and-mortar galleries.

  • For this opportunity we are encouraging and prioritising applications from people who face the highest barriers to accessing in-person residency and commission opportunities. This includes a focus on those whose access requirements are less likely to be met in physical spaces and those who experience intersectional oppressions and barriers.


To find out more about the opportunity and how to apply download the Open Call Pack.

This Pack is Screen Reader/ Read Aloud enabled, and BSL interpreted.

Download an Easier to Read version of the Open Call Pack.

Please complete our Equality Monitoring form alongside your application.​​​​​​

Deadline for expression of interest: 9 December, 2025. 23.59pm


​About ​​​​​​​DASH

DASH is a Disability Visual Arts organisation with a vision for a world where Disability Art is equally valued. Our mission is to cultivate spaces for extraordinary artists. For the past 20 years we have worked to affect sector change, removing barriers to access and establishing Disability Arts practice in the mainstream. We work with artists, audiences, communities and organisations to challenge inequality and implement change. DASH is an Arts Council England NPO, a member of the UK-wide Plus Tate Network, and the host of CVAN West Midlands. www.dasharts.org​​​​​​​

About Compton Verney

Compton Verney is Britain’s leading art space in a park. We’re home to six world-class art collections, a programme of exciting exhibitions, a sculpture park and a café – with acres of parkland and meadows to explore and enjoy. All of this in a Robert Adam house, set in a Capability Brown landscape. We’re a space where all sorts of things can happen. We’re a charity that connects people with art, nature and creativity. And we do this by being collaborative, sustainable, bold, inclusive and fun. With so much going on here, and with such a warm welcome, we offer our visitors a day full of joy.

Our ambition is to move beyond sustainability to regeneration. Through art, we aim to help the world to renew, restore and grow – culturally, emotionally and environmentally. We want to become a model place of regeneration through art. Our current strategy prioritises expanding our market, enriching our offer and strengthening our own organisation.