The Residency

High House Studios offers residencies to artists who want to develop their practice and immerse themselves in the natural environment, deep in the Norfolk countryside. 

Artists come to us to concentrate on their work, try new things, or focus on future exhibitions. 

Enriching an engagement with the place is a unique feature of the High House artist’s residency which sees all artists work with the estate team on the land, gardens, and surrounding landscape of High House Studios each weekday.  The team meets at 08.30 before setting out on seasonal tasks which can be weeding, digging or tending to the trees. This element of the residency grounds an identification with the seasons, with nature, and countryside life – what brought all of us at High House to Norfolk originally.  Our residents have found this a healthy, positive, physical way to start the day, making a fruitful contrast with the more cerebral work of the studio.  

We have two light filled studios (110m3 each) with adjoining accommodation. We offer a weekly food and materials bursary and help with travel costs to get here.  

We welcome applications from ambitious artists working in any medium. It is an especially fruitful place for those artists interested in ecology, re-wilding, or artists who simply want to embed themselves in the landscape and work in conversation with the particular local environment of parkland, sparsely populated chalk hills, farmland, woodland, and the river Nar (a globally rare chalk stream) – all under a wide East Anglian sky.  

We welcome stays of around 6 weeks. If, however, you have a specific project in mind and require some flexibility in duration then we would be happy to discuss your plans. 

Individuals, couples, and groups of up to four are welcome.