Jelly

Jelly is an energetic collaboration of artists supporting each other & the wider community; acting as a catalyst & making space for art in the everyday. We support & develop visual artists & Reading’s arts sector, developing & improving pathways towards careers in the creative industries & providing freelance opportunities to professional artists. We advocate for artists, improving access to the arts & strengthening the opportunities for emerging & established artists, especially those who are underserved. Since 1993, Jelly has moulded & shaped to fit different spaces, adapting & changing to inhabit a space (that is not always a building or venue) to work collaboratively with artists, other cultural organisations, partners & the wider community locally & internationally. We are a community, always embedded within Reading town centre. Our current home is within a shopping centre in Reading’s main high street. Our work can be found throughout the town as public art or in spaces we go to deliver workshops such as schools, community centres, corporate venues & festival sites. We are an outward looking organisation built on valuing people. Each person, both artist & participant, young & old, brings a unique perspective to our creative conversation. We have a number of long standing partnerships, including NPOs, businesses, arts organisations, schools, cultural networks,museums & Reading Borough Council. The support we bring is both nurturing & inspiring, experimental & challenging but always comes from a starting point of creative excellence. We listen. We are here for those who recognise they need us & here for those who think they don’t. We are strategic. We adapt, evolve, change & reinvent. We are here to contribute to making our society a more creative one & underserved voices heard. We are advocates. We will elevate & celebrate creative work & give it a platform to be seen & heard.