Biography
Aid & Abet was conceived by a group of five artists who all had studios together at Wising Arts Centre in Cambridgeshire. In 2011 Sarah Evans, CJMahoney and David Kefford formed Aid & Abet as a not-for-profit organisation and established an artist-run project space in an old railway warehouse in Cambridge as part of the CB1 public art programme. The project space delivered a varied multi-disciplinary contemporary arts programme and worked with a wide range of artists at different stages of their careers for three years between 2011-2014.
Since 2014 Aid & Abet, led by Evans and Kefford, have taken a new direction, shifting the model from arts organisation to artist group working on multiple projects including a year-long residency at The University of Cambridge’s North West Cambridge Developmemt, and leading an artist residency, The Frontier Zone, in Wisbech Cambridgeshire.
Aid & Abet are currently artists in residence in a studio at Mill Park, Cambridge as part of the CB1 development where we continue to host a programme of workshops, talks, and events for a public audience. We facilitate an engagement programme across Cambridge for all the artists commissioned as part of the public art programme, including Jaqualine Poncelet, Troika, Jyll Bradley and Gavin Turk.
Aid & Abet have recently been commissioned by Trust New Art (NT) as lead artists and will be developing a major new work for Peckover House in Wisbech from 2018.