Who We Are
Pipeline Projects are a young, dynamic Eco Arts community group run by artists and creatives. We host workshops and exhibitions and historically we have worked with deaf artists, women, BAME and adults with learning disabilities to create artworks and platforms, reaching an international audience.
We can deliver our vision because of the experience, abilities and networks of those involved from aid workers, diplomats, film makers, ballet dancers, lawyers and artists at the top of their respective fields. Historically, we have been female-centric and have worked with deaf, BAME, SEN and refugee artists. We are run by artists for the community rather than by businessmen for the art economy, as is the case with so many central London art spaces and organisations.
Our Vision
A society in which every person can engage with the educative, social and life-affirming benefits of the visual arts. Our vision is to widen access to the visual arts, to support the diversity of contemporary art practice and encourage access and participation from a wide range of audiences, focusing on those underserved by the arts, education systems and society as a whole, particularly benefiting those in the Westminster borough. Art for the 6%, rather than the 1%.
The visual arts are an unparalleled way to empower, inspire, level up and connect society’s most excluded and vulnerable, raising aspirations, building self-esteem, reducing isolation, and enhancing mental health and wellbeing.
Our Mission
Art has always been a soft power that enables greater understanding of society’s most complex issues and those marginalised by them. We believe that a wider understanding of the visual arts will lead to more empathetic decision-making.
We consult with mindful thinkers like London’s leading arts journalist Louisa Buck who is on the board of several environmental charities. Buck promotes Art 2030, a not-for-profit organisation operating out of Denmark, which facilitates artist projects and lobbying initiatives with the aim of tying in art and artists to the UN’s 17 interlinked Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These goals were drawn up by world leaders at the UN General Assembly in 2015 as a “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.”
SDGs—also known as Global Goals— were included in a UN Resolution, commonly known as Agenda 2030, which reflected the aim for them to be achieved by 2030. These 17 broad, interdependent and hugely ambitious goals cover all social, economic and environmental bases. These include no poverty, affordable and clean energy, and to protect, repair and sustain life and ecosystems on land.
Another significant initiative which we look to is S+T+Arts, which is funded by the European Commission and aims to bring art, science and technology together to protect the environment. This cross-sector collaboration sees the humanities as being central to funding environmental solutions, and makes a point of putting artists at the forefront of innovation processes seeking to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Most recently, we have collaborated with mycelium leather producers Bolt Threads, a company that believes that solutions to our most vexing problems can be found in nature. Every day we’re inspired by the amazing materials we work with and are driven by the desire to turn these materials into incredible products that solve the problems of a resource-constrained world.
We have a program of exhibitions planned for 2023 which includes a workshop by Slad Valley Mushrooms, who provide grown food to the local community and food banks in Stroud, which we will be bringing to London to showcase ‘food bank sculptures’, providing harvestable grown mushroom sculptures. Included in this exhibition and workshop is best selling author Merlin Sheldrake who will host a workshop on how mushrooms can save the planet.
Pipeline Projects will play a unique role in the UK arts ecology by supporting diverse artistic talents to create a platform from which to educate and inspire a vast audience.