Arts SU Project Spaces are free spaces across UAL colleges where students can host exhibitions, events, screenings, performances, workshops, and more. You apply with your idea, and if selected, we support you in making it happen.

We have four Project Spaces across UAL: at Camberwell, Central Saint Martins, LCC, and High Holborn. These are the only spaces at UAL where you can put on a show or event as a student without going through a course tutor, they exist purely for students to experiment, create, and collaborate.

For 2025-26, we ran three exhibitions per term across Camberwell, CSM, and LCC. Take a look at what students got up to this year, and let it inspire your own Project Space applications when the open call launches in September 2026!

Low End Theory

EXHIBITION: 6th November - 24th November 2025
WHERE: SU Project Space, Camberwell College of Arts, Peckham Rd, SE5 8UF

Low End Theory asks how bass, understood as vibration, pressure, and survival strategy, can act as a curatorial method and research practice. Bass is not simply a frequency range; it is a method of transmission, a site of power, and a resonant memory that exists below legibility.

Curated by Ana Luisa Cubas & Marissa Derrick

Hey, little bird, how did you learn to fly?

EXHIBITION: 14th November - 3rd December 2025
WHERE: SU Project Space, 1st floor (next to Library), CSM, Granary Square, N1C 4AA

Hey, little bird, how did you learn to fly? was developed from the artist’s participation in wild bird breeding monitoring and ringing work on a remote sandy island in the tropics. What began as scientific fieldwork gradually evolved into an artistic journey: a form of residency shaped not by clocks, but by tides and birds.

The process followed a rhythm of Fieldwork → Data → Ceramic: from observing and recording the birds’ breeding activities, to transforming those traces and data into material expressions through clay. Through this process, the artist learned to observe, record, and understand the lives of birds, while also reflecting on human existence.

The works presented in this exhibition attempt to preserve something from that fleeting encounter: a memory, a cluster of footprints, or a trace left behind.

By Yige Hu (Emma)

4thwall.exe

EXHIBITION: 28th January - 25th February 2026
WHERE: SU Project Space, Camberwell College of Arts, Peckham Rd, SE5 8UF

4thwall.exe is inspired by the artists’ shared interest in unreleased emotional tension and digital anxiety shaped by social media, data privacy, and the rapid rise of AI and emerging technologies. Through a series of interactive and immersive installations, visitors are invited to slow down, reflect, and actively engage with emotions that are often overlooked or suppressed in digital life. Participation plays a central role, allowing the works to shift and change through audience interaction, creating space for reflection, dialogue, and connection.

Featuring work by Shynara Nygmetova and Zixuan Hong

MYTH IN MAKING

EXHIBITION: 5th February - 3rd March 2026
WHERE: SU Project Space, CSM, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, N1C 4AA

Myth in Making, is a process-led installation and performance born out of the artist’s experience of heritage pottery skills in Oaxaca, Mexico. To learn more about her home country’s ceramic traditions, the artist went to Oaxaca over an eight-month period, where she immersed herself in the indigenous philosophy and processes.  

Beginning by making her own potter's wheels and collecting clay, the artist takes a holistic approach to making. Reflecting on the cyclical nature of ceramics and human’s relationship to the earth, the artist has adapted these traditional methods into a new environment: London. She goes through the cycle of digging clay, refining it, making pots, and returning them to the earth, often opting to work directly in the landscape. This repetitive cycle fosters a profound connection to the land and highlights the mythic nature of creation through human craftsmanship. It is a process-led meditation on clay as land and creative medium, with humans as its activating principle. 

Clay is a thing of life and has a capacity of relation to the world due to it being the ground itself. To share this knowledge, the artist is looking to incorporate participatory engagement, emphasising the relationship between nature, culture, craft, and everyday life. 

By Andrea Llerena

CALL FAIL

EXHIBITION: 12th March - 13th April 2026
WHERE: SU Project Space, CSM, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, N1C 4AA

Call Fail is an interactive narrative installation examining the realities of looking for work set against the UK job market, the project draws attention to the emotional strain, uncertainty, and quiet persistence required to keep participating in a process that often feels impersonal and opaque.

Alongside this critique sits the Good Job Archive, a participatory element that gathers examples of ethical and supportive workplaces. Visitors contribute experiences, observations, and alternatives, expanding the project beyond frustration into collective reflection.

By Neha Ratanchand

BOLD GLAMOUR

EXHIBITION: 9th February - 18th March 2026
WHERE: SU Project Space, LCC, Elephant & Castle, SE1 6SB

Bold glamour is an exhibition by Kate Oliver and Sophie Keen Superstar featuring a live performance for your viewing pleasure at the private view on 19th feb.

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By Kate Oliver and Sophie Keen Superstar

An Open Call for the next Project Space Programme will launch in September 2026, check out this page for more updates!