About

Making Time is a virtual working-together session that takes place on Zoom every monday morning. It’s for neurodivergent artists, writers and researchers. If you/your work falls slightly outside of these parameters but you feel like it’s for you, then it’s for you! You also do not have to have a diagnosis to join, and while talking about diagnostic processes and different neurodivergent traits is welcome, there’s no expectation that you’ll share any of those details with the group.

We (Grace and Jo) wanted to set something up to help us get started with things we need to or want to do when we technically could be doing them at any time, and because we want to bring a bunch of neurodivergent artists and researchers together and hear about what each other are up to!

If you want to come just join our mailing list here to receive a reminder about the Monday sessions and receive information about the workshops! We will only email you once a week and you can unsubscribe whenever you want.

Please check out our acces page here for more details on how the sessions and workshops run, and a video where Grace and Jo demonstrate what Making Time is like!

Regular Monday Morning Sessions

Screenshot from a Making Time zoom session showing three users on the call. One window shows Liza, a white person with curly blonde hair. Their fingers are steepled and they look pleased. Another window shows Jo, a white person with short brown hair, and Grace, a white woman with short brown hair and orange tinted glasses. Jo is winking and Grace is smiling. The last window shows Abby, a white person with long curly hair. Abby is looking down and is wearing a red shirt with the names of lots of disabled artists on it.

Time: 10am – 12pm Monday mornings (UK time)

Frequency: Every week except bank holidays

Place: Zoom, the same link every week.

The aim is to get together virtually once a week so we can do a thing together apart. Making Time is about feeling less alone as we get on with our individual tasks, not about peer pressuring each other into being more productive! It’s not a support group but it is supportive.

The structure of the session is usually:

30 mins chatting, saying what we hope to do
1 hour still on zoom together, but working/making art/resting solo
30 mins to reconnect at the end to chat about how we got on

We use a timer app on zoom to keep track of time which makes a beeping sound when the time is up.

Some things we might do:

writing
drawing
eating
film editing
benefits admin
thinking while staring out the window
resting

Workshops

In addition to the regular Making Time sessions, we will also be running free peer support sessions and creative workshops with a bunch of amazing artists! If you are not able to attend the regular sessions you are still very welcome to come to these, which all take place on weekday evenings at 7pm. You can find more details about these and how to book a space on the Workshops page.

About us:

Grace Denton is a visual artist based in Gateshead. She makes performance, video and textile work that is both serious and silly. In 2025 she completed her PhD The nominally sovereign body: A practice-based exploration of the language of self-governance through the prism of ADHD. Grace also co-runs The Wardrobe, a clothes bank and safe-space for exploring gender expression.

Jo Hauge is a live artist and researcher based in Glasgow. They make sticky slimy loud performances and moving image works, and recently completed their phd on neurodivergent performance practice titled Neurodivergent Performance Practice: overwhelm, multiplicity and speculation as neurodivergent logics.