The National Sculpture Factory (NSF) is an organisation which provides and promotes a supportive and enabling environment for the making of art and the realisation of creative projects. They actively support artists and their practice through residencies, lecture programmes, cultural exchanges, masterclasses and professional development workshops.

The newly developed Im/Plants strand in the NSF’s annual program is designed to act as a source of imaginative hybridization, to create as yet unknown forms of production or provocation, and enable the NSF to work with the broadest range of artistic practitioners, leading to the synthesis of new ideas and work practices within the artist-centric institution.

NSF Im/Plants project allows the practitioners to practically challenge the perceived ideologies of the monolithic or static institution, and to act instead as a generative substrate engaging directly with the receptive NSF. In making available its resources, experience and network of relations, the NSF wishes, through these insertions, to open itself to the stimulus of new ideas, alien influences and new creative productive outcomes.