WorldPride
Artist in Residence
As resident artist at WorldPride, Malmö in 2021 Nick worked with international participants to create events across the city during the WorldPride cultural programme. He delivered creative writing workshops, performances and talks. He also created new work in the form of text and digital art pieces inspired by WorldPride.
London Metropolitan Archives
Artist in Residence
Streetlife London: From Chaucer to Banksy was a residency project themed around London’s rich heritage of street culture. It involved research & leading workshops, development sessions and giving seminars. Outcomes included a day conference, a showcase event, digital artworks and a book of poems titled Cries of London.
Westway Arts Trust
A commission from Westways Arts Trust to create a new piece of work engaging with communities in North Kensington. The resulting piece Songs That Nobody Taught Me was developed in association with local community choirs, and centralised music to explore questions of how community and music affect us as we piece together our lives.
Fair Field
A commission from Penned in The Margins to create a performance piece called Glouton’s Feast as part of a major adaptation of Piers Ploughman. Written & performed by Nick Field, with a cast of six actors, a live band & original music, Glouton’s Feast explored food consumption & excess as a process of colonialism. Performed at Ledbury Poetry Festival and Shoreditch Town Hall.
City of London
Artist in Residence
A major heritage engagement project during which Nick Field was based as Artist in Residence at a number of schools across London. The residencies involved workshops and creative development sessions with students, themed around the work of Medieval scribes and poetry and the English language as a means of self-expression.
Spread The Word
Associate Writer
A year long residency with Spread The Word involving facilitating workshops, including a series of workshops for new writers in libraries across London for the City of Stories project, and mentoring of emerging writers.
Keats House
Artist in Residence
A residency at the Keats House museum, involving research, facilitating workshops and events, giving performances and creating new performance and text work.
Ovalhouse
Associate Artist
A year long residency involving creating and showing new work, facilitating workshops and contributing to the artistic community at Ovalhouse.