Future Makers Collaborations //
Creative Space
A vibrant cultural hub for Crawley
Since April 2025, our home in West Green has been transformed into a hub for professional creatives, as part of a partnership with Creative Crawley.
West Green Space
With 5 resident artists including an architect and visual artist, two fashion designers, a producer, and ourselves, we are testing what a creative making-space for artists and young people could look like.
This cultural hub will support local residents, young people, and professional creatives through arts and cultural activities, inspiring, connecting and building skills.
The building now has a one large studio, one small studio and hot desks available to hire by other creative professionals.
Once a month between April and June, we’ve been holding open days where members of the public and local residents can see the artists at work.
For more information about the Resident Artists and how to hire the space see below.
“I had the opportunity to meet an inspiring and wonderful group of people”
Hire the space
Our space in West Green has a one large studio, one small studio and hot desks available to hire by other creative professionals.
The spaces are ideal for rehearsals, studio makes, hot desking for creatives, read-throughs and location shoots. Spaces are not available to hire for recurring weekly activities but can be hired in ½ day, day long and week long + blocks.
For more information visit Creative Crawley’s website.
Photo by Ian Greenland
Meet the Resident Artists
Theatre Centre has been working alongside four other Resident Artists in the West Green Creative Makerspace:
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Maija is passionate about the positive impact of creativity. Her background is in conceiving, producing and promoting innovative projects and initiatives across new music and sound. She is currently developing work inspired and informed by local place and wellbeing. Projects include Positive Place: embedded creative wellbeing research and development (funded by Arts Council England).
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Sophie is a fashion and bridalwear designer raised in Crawley. She studied BA(Hons) Fashion Design at the University of Salford, graduating in 2023. Her concepts are influenced by personal experience with philosophical and political undertones, manifesting into luxury womenswear. Sophie values the art and craftsmanship of the fashion design process and prioritises the production of wearable, long-lasting garments with extensive technical development. Her work was presented in the UoS x NYFW show at Pier 59 studios in 2020 and featured on WGSN and Harpers Bazaar Spain, and she exhibited work alongside Men’s Paris Fashion Week in 2023.
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Beth Williams is a queer, disabled designer and multi-disciplinary artist based in Crawley, West Sussex. Who specialises in Living Textiles, biodesign and knitwear. Their practice centres around their experience of an inaccessible world, as well as the relationship between human and environmental sustainability. Their living textiles and garments grow alongside them. They collaborate to raise questions about the lifespan of clothing, and ask their audience to consider what happens at the end of a garment’s use by presenting an alternative afterlife through their living garments.
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Karl Singporewala is an architect and royal academician.
In 2024, he founded Karl Singporewala + the design bureau (KSdb), which currently has architectural projects in Crawley, London, Manchester, Bristol, Brighton and Berlin.
Karl was given a life-time honour in 2023 of being elected as an academician at the Royal West of England Academy of Art (RWA). He is a chartered architect with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and currently presides on the board of trustees for Theatre Centre, a national leading theatre company based in Crawley, which brings world-class theatre straight into the heart of schools and commissions new writing from trailblazing young writers.
Karl’s artwork is held in collections world-wide including the RWA, Bristol and Hamilton Princess, Bermuda. Select gallery exhibitions include the Saatchi Gallery, Onassis Cultural Centre Athens, V&A digital futures, the New York Institute of Technology, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Upcoming exhibitions include a new major solo show at the SOAS Gallery, London in July 2025. The show will include a mixture of new large-scale commissions and select works from the past eighteen years.
Meet the West Green Window Artists
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Carys Tupper is a multidisciplinary artist based in Surrey, England. Her practice explores the ephemeral nature and transience of the body, as both site and vessel.
Positioned at the intersection of painting, sculpture and performance, Tupper's hybrid entities imbue their own presence, challenging boundaries and inviting the viewer to confront the uneasy spaces where definitions falter. Through the act of sewing, ripping, reconstructing, mark-making and painting, the material becomes a conduit for emotional and physical narratives. Sculptural forms bridge the ephemeral and permanent, human and creature, object and presence. The line, imbued with physical presence, becomes a testament to the human experience. Her work is often characterised by its relationship to action painting, musicality, abstract expressionism and a defiant aesthetic.
Ultimately, Tupper’s practice is a poetic exploration of the body’s transience and the raw intensity of experience.
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Themes of fragility and intimacy surround Lonny Chauhan’s work - fuelled by his experience of living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (a condition which causes excessive tiredness and pain, among other symptoms). Chauhan works fluidly between mediums, predominantly sculpture and painting, as he navigates both self-expression and exploring art as a tool for connection. At times he will work in solitude and at other times he will directly interact with people whilst working.
Through his paintings and sculptures, Lonny Chauhan aims to encourage the appreciation for those in our lives and boost friendly interactions between strangers, while his parallel focus on fragility serves to bring visibility to disability, which he hopes will connect with others who also suffer. Lonny believes that intimacy and fragility are integral elements of the human condition, and the reminder of both can help us to better navigate our lives.
Where We Are
We’re a 10-15 minute walk from the centre of Crawley and Crawley train station, round the corner from Crawley Hospital and next to Carey House. There is a bus stop just outside the venue that’s served by bus routes 1, 3, 23 & Fastway 10.
Our address is:
Theatre Centre
1 Town Barn Road,
Crawley
RH11 7XG
