Residents is the CCA’s engagement programme designed to broaden the voices, relationships, and lines of inquiry at the gallery.

Since autumn 2021, 27 community and student groups have taken up residence in the John Garcia Family Foundation Gallery (photographed). Each group has used the space on a regular schedule to host their activities and as an additional resource for their core work.

We initiated Residents to proactively increase community links and voices within the CCA, to share our resources, encourage conversation, and to examine potentials for collaboration and partnership with our immediate community.

The re-design of the gallery space has been led by APV (Access Power Visibility) in close consultation with the 2021-2022 cohort of Residents, with accessibility, hospitality, and creating a welcoming atmosphere as being the foremost concerns within its design.

Yearly Breakdown of Residents:

2021- 2022:
Alchemy Collective
A Particular Reality
Ambient Jam Collective
Black Gold Collective
Floor Five Collective
Mapping Local Ecologies
Gold Paper Mental Health Working Group
Rare Groove
St James Hatcham Primary School
Music as the Key to Life

2022-2024:
Alchemy Collective
A Particular Reality
Feminist Duration Reading Group
Generation Delta
Goldsmiths Allotment and Friends
Gourd Canteen
Sewing Seeds Collective
Temporary Monuments
St James Hatcham Primary School

2024-2025:
Alchemy Collective
A Particular Reality
Feminist Duration Reading Group
Community Curators
TISSUE
Threadbare Collective
Silkworms Collective
Haberdashers Hatcham College
John Stainer Primary

2025-2026:
Alchemy Collective
A Particular Reality
Feminist Duration Reading Group
TISSUE
Resonance Poetry
Blossom Young Mums
Centre for Creative Explorations
Two Currents
Haberdashers’ Hatcham Free School

Learn more about our current Resident groups here.