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Pop-up artists in retail spaces

Live art.
In your shop.

We put local artists into bookshops, comic shops, games shops and record shops for a few hours at a time. They arrive with everything they need, take a corner, and start making art in public.

Snorkeltoast
Launch offer: free to host
Real art.Real people.Real impact.
Two ways in

Which side of the counter are you on?

For shops

Make your shop pop

You provide a corner, a plug socket and three hours of your normal opening. We bring the artist, briefed and insured, with all their own kit. During launch it costs you nothing.

Host an artist
For artists

Draw in public. Get seen.

Real shops, real audiences, work made in front of people who came in for something else. You sell your own work and take your own commissions.

Join the roster
How it works

Three hours, start to finish

See the whole thing
  1. Tell us about your space

    Where the artist could sit, when you're quietest, and what your shop is about.

  2. We match an artist

    From the local roster, briefed on your floor, your hours and your rules.

  3. They turn up and work

    Set up in twenty minutes, three hours of live work, packed down and gone.

Nottingham first. Your city next.

We're starting where we can walk to every shop on the list. The model travels — if you run a shop, a market or a centre somewhere else, tell us where.

Nottingham Derby soon Sheffield soon Leicester soon

Let's make something awesome together.

Twenty minutes on the phone is usually enough to know whether it'll work in your shop.