Individual Voice

General information

Individual Arts is an arts company based in Devon which is run by husband and wife team Chris and Susan Harknett. We aim to contribute to all areas of artistic pursuit, not just in our own disciplines. Therefore we open our doors to any artist who wants to create something special.

Individual Arts is about the dream of an individual. When I was at university, I had many great theatrical and musical ideas that I wanted to create, but couldn't find anyone with quite the same artistic interests as myself. What I decided to do was put some of these ideas on myself but with so much work to do, what I really wanted was people alongside me to share the load. Thus the idea for an arts company was born. Something that could gather artists together to help each other create great work.

Everything that Individual Arts does is designed to empower individual artists to express themselves through their art by giving artists a chance to work with a production team and resources that they may not be able to get hold of themselves.

We aim to achieve this vision by:

- gathering artists and production team members to ourselves with frequent residencies to provide opportunities to create work.
- providing educational experiences to all age groups so they can increase in skill and vision to create better work.
- drive down costs and explore new ways of creating a wider audience for arts in Devon.
- improve the artistic economy in Devon so that artists can better fund their work and make money from their work.

So, after years as a dream in an individual's head, Individual Arts is ready to be released into the world. We hope that you will partner with us, whether as an artist, a technician, a student, or an audience member to help us build the arts in Devon and perhaps even beyond!