Hive Curates

Hive Curates (previously Artist Hive Studios) are curators, artists and cultural programmers specialising in arts and placemaking. We operate across two sites, providing creative workspaces for artists. Hive Curates was founded in 2019 after transforming 3,000 sq ft of disused industrial space on Pretoria Road North into a community of multiracial, multigenerational, and multidisciplinary artists. At Hive we want to bridge the gap between culture and community. We believe in the importance of creativity and how it can help transform our everyday environments. Since starting we have grown our mission to work beyond the studio, working on some great public realm projects with the GLA, Enfield Council, Fore Street For All and we’ve been funded by HM Government, European Regional Development Fund and Mayor of London. In 2021 we expanded by taking a second site, FIELD by Hive, in Enfield Town. By transforming a vacant shop in Enfield Palace Gardens we were able to provide four new creative workspaces and have now established a shop selling all items locally made and where the community can meet for regular art classes and workshops. We now have over 20 creatives working across our two sites and through projects and our shop, FIELD by Hive, we work with a further 50+ local makers, designers and artists. Hive was recently commissioned to organise and curate an inaugural borough wide light festival, Enfield Winter Lights, which ran throughout February and March 2022. The festival, in collaboration with Enfield Council, was designed to bring people back to our high streets post-pandemic, through a series of unexpected and playful light installations across four town centres (Angel Edmonton, Enfield Town, Palmers Green and Southgate). Hive continues to work on public realm projects and looks to add a third site to its portfolio in 2022.