ActionSpace supports adults with learning disabilities across London, providing access to creative studios, professional guidance, and opportunities they need to grow and thrive. We ensure that learning disabled artists are seen, heard, and fully included at the heart of the visual arts world.
Our Mission
To seek out and unlock talent, create opportunities, and enable learning disabled artists to realise their potential.
Our Vision
To position learning disabled artists at the heart of the visual arts sector, where their inclusion is accepted, and it is unremarkable to see a learning-disabled artist in the studio, exhibiting, selling their work, or engaging in any aspect of the visual arts. Their presence and contributions will be integral, ubiquitous, and transformative, alongside all artists.
Our aim
To achieve significant recognition for artists with learning disabilities in our society, opening up, challenging and disrupting the UK visual arts sector, providing opportunities for learning disabled artists to develop their skills and capabilities, for their work to be seen and better understood, and for them to gain better access to employment and recognition. We aim to drive and promote the inclusion of learning disabled artists across the visual arts workforce and to support their meaningful involvement in the sector’s future leadership.
Supported Studios
Our three flagship London studios — at Studio Voltaire (South), Cockpit Bloomsbury (Central), and ASC Ealing Road (West) — are vibrant, long-term spaces where learning disabled artists flourish. With regular sessions led by professional facilitators, these studios are creative powerhouses where community, support and practice are at their heart.
We support and enable: we do not teach, collaborate, or co-create. We empower artists to lead their careers and fulfil their ambitions, modest or grand.
Creative Hub
We open doors. From local projects to international platforms, we connect learning disabled artists to the wider visual arts world.
Artist Development Agency
We grow careers. Through exhibitions, residencies, commissions, and partnerships with leading arts institutions, we put learning disabled artists centre stage, nationally and internationally.
By making a donation, you can help our artists reach their potential