As an artist-led, voluntary organisation, PS² fulfils two functions:

1. As a studio-resource and network provider, offering affordable, adequate and longer term working space for currently 11 professional artists. This includes a research office for our curator in residence scheme for emerging curators.
2. As an organiser and initiator of an engaged and year-round arts programme in our project space or at outside locations and neighbourhoods. Our project space is seen as an extension of the studios and offers an open, temporary workspace and showroom for invited or selected project artists, enabling encounters for the general public to see, enjoy and participate in art.

This tandem approach underlines our core aim: to support artists in their development and to connect art with society in an inclusive way and to a high artistic standard.

We try to achieve this through

• • support and advice for artists
  • provision of an open platform and network for debate and exchange on a local and translocal level
  • projects and cultural events with a focus on the urban and social environment, free and open accessible for the general public.
  • community based, participatory projects
  • workshops
  • long-term projects in neighbourhoods: PeasPark, North Belfast and Ballykinler, Co.Down