Our projects: A comprehensive list of the platforms created under PCP with practical examples of application of the principles.

This section shows how the principles of integrated care have been applied across Procreate Project’s platforms. Each initiative grew from the urgency to create sustainable, caring, and equitable models for systemic change in the cultural sector. The following case studies – from Mother House Studios and the Oxytocin programme, to the Mother Art Prize, the Procreate Project Archive, commissions, and residencies – demonstrate how strategies of access, sustainability, and care have been translated into real-world practices, shaping new models for the arts and beyond.

The platforms and initiatives developed through Procreate Project have grown out of necessity, vision, and community resilience. For the first five years, most activities were carried out with little or no resources, relying on partnerships, in-kind support, and the unpaid labour of artists, parents, and allies who believed in the urgency of making visible and supporting the practices of artists with caring responsibilities. Many artists contributed their time and work for free, not out of surplus, but out of solidarity and a shared recognition that opportunities for artist-parents were almost absent in the cultural field internationally.

This acknowledgement is given both to recognise the unpaid labour that goes into the formation of grassroots initiatives, and to demonstrate that establishing practices of accessibility and care within different infrastructures does not require impossible budgets – it can be achieved through simple, practical considerations when supported by the right intentions.

This collective effort built the foundations of what later became a recognised model. From grassroots, DIY beginnings, the platforms have gradually expanded with the support of project-based public funding and private donations. Each project has been an experiment in applying the principles and practices set out in this Toolkit, testing what care looks like in practice, how structures can shift, and how visibility and opportunities for artist-parents can be sustained.