The skills of artists are vital to pretty much all aspects of life and increasingly acknowledged as necessary for future negotiation of a progressively complex world in need of solutions.

Women in Space conference, art-in. Manchester.

Women in Space posters. Emma Rushton and Erika Rushton.

actors performing stop thief! within the exhibition where do i end and you begin, edinburgh city art gallery, as part of the edinburgh festival and to mark the commonwealth games. from the project stop thief! by Emma rushton and derek tyman.

shoot image from the film liar, by emma rushton and derek tyman, featuring university of Leeds students.

Sami artist Geir Tore Holm from Norway serving sheep’s blood pancakes and traditional stove pot coffee in the Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK, as part of Emma Rushton and Derek Tyman’s Project Food From Elsewhere.

die kunst, art band, writing new material during a residency in the thoreau cabin, eskdale forest, the lake district, as part of the good life project by emma rushton and derek tyman.

artist publications and posters, the flux space - meeting / work / library space, art-in. Manchester.

band kill your boyfriend rehearsing in the thoreau cabin as part of the wild exhibition / project, scarborough crescent arts, UK.

art-in. has been set up to provide interesting and unique interventions into spaces AND to provide artists/craftspeople with another means of making a living wage.

art-in in South Manchester aims to be of use to artists and other cultural producers as a space in which to experience art, exhibit, meet, work, educate, discuss.