Join the team here at The Auxiliary, we have two positions available: Project Manger and Marketing Assistant. Founded in 2016, The Auxiliary Project Space CIC is a bold and ambitious artist led organisation. It supports regional artistic development, a full programme of events, studios, exhibitions and workshops, and runs two festivals.

Join Industrial Coast here at The Auxiliary on Monday 3 July for Florain T M Zeisig, an artist producer and musician. The Berlin sound artist explores the creative potential of vibroacoustic research, composing ambient music for therapeutic mattresses that transmit ultra-low frequencies directly to patients’ bodies.

This is not an ‘open call', it’s an ‘open invitation'. Join us on July 6th between 6-9pm for the opening of ‘Now That’s What I Call Art 3; a collaboration between artists, brought to you by The Spaghetti Factory and System Art Gallery.

Join us for an informative session on how to secure funding from Arts Council England, taking place on July 13th at 1pm. Calling all artists and creatives. Want to know about applying for funding from Arts Council England but don’t know where to start? Need a jump start to get you going?

A series of one night exhibition openings happening across a jam-packed week in late June, early July here at The Auxiliary. With summer in full swing, we’ve built a lovely garden gallery pod that will host artists working in different mediums, with painting, photography, sculpture and print on show.

By Film Director John Kirkbride “Throughout the shoot and the edit I remember thinking to myself “this probably wouldn’t have happened if we hadn’t got The Auxiliary”. And I can’t wait for its re-opening. I’ll certainly be back to stage another food fight. Or maybe just shoot some music videos that don’t require a 4 hour clean-up.”

Middlesbrough Art Week (MAW) are seeking applications for work by artists and creatives either based in the North East or who have a connection to the area for an exhibition that forms part of MAW23. The selected artists will display their work in a group show or in appropriate interventions across Middlesbrough.

Tees Valley Festivals Volunteering are recruiting and supporting volunteers, working on festivals and events across the Tees Vally. Interested in volunteering at Sonic Arts Week experimental sound festival in July? Find out more here.

In the studio with John Perangie creating new work ahead of their solo show REFASHION now open at Pineapple Black showing until 29th April. ‘Refashion is a solo show by JJ a multidisciplinary Queer Artist mainly working in painting, sculpture and textiles.

April is a special month for The Auxiliary. We moved into our very first space, on Shaftesbury Street in Stockton, in April 2016. We got the keys for the warehouse on Station Street in April 2019. And starting this April 2023, we are now an organisation of the Arts Council's National Portfolio.

From the 15th - 22nd July, Middlesbrough celebrates Sonic Arts Week once again! Brought to you by the team behind The Auxiliary Project Space, SAW is all about living life with the sound turned up to the max… so let your ears lead the way & #comejointheracket

Working collaboratively with key organisations, cultural practitioners and networks across the region since the summer of 2022, Clore Leadership has developed a new strand of programming that responds to leadership and workforce development needs in the Tees Valley cultural sector.

Find out more about the MOTHEROTHER project and the bespoke artist residencies that are on offer. Explore what an accessible residency could look like for an artist who is also a parent or carer. Hear from and talk with other artists and creative professionals with caregiving roles.

The general idea is to bring internationally renowned sound exploration/experimental artists to Middlesbrough who would rarely play beyond London and maybe 1 or 2 other big city shows. Plus news on Sonic Arts Week 2023.

by Uma Breakdown. ‘When I arrive at the beautiful and warmly pristine space of The Auxiliary the morning after the exhibition’s opening, I can’t help but approach the work through these ideas, which now structure this account…’

Broken Grey Wires delivered two brilliant workshops here at The Auxiliary in conversation with their exhibition, Two Plus Two Makes Four. A ‘walkshop’ with Alisa Oleva and a zine making workshop with Lisa Lorenz.

Two Plus Two Makes Four exhibition is redefining the meaning of ‘mad’ The founder of Broken Grey Wires breaks down their radical approach to curating art by Daniel Johnston, Gillian Wearing, and more.

Now Showing until 24th March, Two Plus Two Makes Four. The work exhibited is rooted in the lived experience of mental illness. It spans the sombre, the joyful/funny, and the raw and explores the politics of mental illness.

I've walked around this building countless times. I know every crack, flaking bit of paint, dodgy floor board or temperamental plug socket and I’ve imagined so many possibilities with what could happen with the space.

Lizz Brady from Broken Grey Wires reflects on the exhibition Two Plus Two Makes Four here at The Auxiliary. Two Plus Two Makes Four features artists with an international reputation - Bill Viola, Gillian Wearing, Pipilotti Rist, Martin Creed and the late American DIY artist/musician Daniel Johnston.