Current Tenants
It’s the studio holders that really make CADS what it is today. Creatives harnessing their drive and passion in our studios across Sheffield. Click on the links to find out more and follow their socials.
Access Space
Arley Street
At Access Space, people interested in art, design, computers, recycling, music, electronics, photography and more, meet like-minded people, share and develop skills and work on creative, enterprising and technical projects.
Plot 22
Exchange Street
Plot 22 is a multi-purpose creative space situated in the heart of the Castlegate district of Sheffield in the old Castle Market. Managed by social enterprise RiteTrax, the space is a hub of grassroots and underground creative culture in Sheffield.
Creative DJ School
Eagle Works
Dedicated DJ and Production school offering DJ courses, music production courses and flexible taster sessions for all ages and abilities. Caters for private tuition, schools, teacher training, birthday parties, or corporate fun days.
Delicious Clam
Exchange Street
Delicious Clam Records is a collectively run independent label and recording studio based in the centre of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK.
Bal Fashions
Exchange Street
Bar, club, events space, coffee shop, cozy hang out, safe space in the heart of Sheffield.
Saint Mars of the Desert Brewery
Eagle Works
A true family-run artisanal brewery located in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Recognised as one of the top ten new brewers in the world and best in South Yorkshire by RateBeer.com. More recently Pellicle Magazine has named SMOD Brewery of the Year 2021.
Bricolage Kitchen
Eagle Works
bricolagekitchen (aka Gillian Whiteley) brings together art, politics and multi-media improvisation working with performative drawing, voice, piano, piano accordion, harmonium, melodica, pixiephone, hurdy-gurdy, violin, viola, shruti-box and various objects.
Messy Space
Eagle Works
Fun, supportive maker space for all!
Amadora Frogson
Arley Street
UK artist based in Sheffield, with a love for colour and the creation of something unique.
Current focus is on creating realistic cityscape and street scene paintings, as well as abstract pieces which focus on colour and texture.
The Tower of Bagel
Eagle Works
The Tower of Bagel is a bakery that specialises in vegan, organic, homemade bagels, challah, rugelach and many more. They offer baking courses as well!
Sincerely Louise
Arley Street
Sincerely Louise is an award-winning independent British knitting brand. The owner Louise Walker designs knitting patterns and kits, and books inspired by taxidermy.
Lovely Skincare
Eagle Works
Natural, affordable and beautiful skincare!
All Lovely products are formulated, made, packaged and posted from a colourful workshop in Sheffield.
Lovely skincare for Lovely people.
Emma Cuckson
Arley Street
Emma is an integrative therapist who blends therapeutic techniques to find what works best for you. She offers time and a comfortable confidential space where she will listen to your story and support you through the journey.
Mister Peebles
Arley Street
Using watercolour pencils, pen and puns, Mister Pebbles is an illustrator and maker of paper goods.
All the original illustrations are made with pencil, paint and water - sometimes they start with the animal in mind, others with a word or phrase.
Emily Goldie
Arley Street
Offers studio headshots and portraiture for actors and creatives in Yorkshire and the North of England.
Amanda Johnson
Arley Street
Award-winning composer and violinist.
Composes, performs and records music that explores the themes of travel, migration and freedom.
Matthew Tully
Abbeydale Picture House
Performance designer and visual artist, adopting the act of play as a means of devising performance, utilising and adapting toys/ready made objects to surreal effect.
Over 13 years experience as a maker and designer.
Flora Menager
Arley Street
Flora Ménager is a Landscape Architect and Director of Flora Works, a garden design company.
Having spent a lifetime representing the world on paper through her art, always with a focus on people and places, Flora understands how spaces are created to best work for people.
William Exley
Arley Street
William Exley was born in Sheffield, studied illustration in Brighton and has lived, worked and been a tourist in London since graduating. He uses a System 3 brush, spider black ink and a Wacom to draw, and finds distractions in comics, movies and podcasts about comics and movies.
Eleanor McMillan
Arley Street
Eleanor McMillan is a fully qualified therapist with experience supporting clients with a variety of problems. She also have a wide range of life experience from which she draws insight when it seems helpful to the work. At the same time, she aims to keep respect for her clients’ own experiences and unique responses.
Alex McLean
Arley Street
Alex works full time exploring algorithmic patterns, as part of a four-year UKRI-funded “future leaders fellowship” with Then Try This.
He made the TidalCycles live coding environment.
Since 2000 he’s performed algorithmic and live coded music widely, e.g. performing solo as Yaxu.
Theatre Deli
Arley Street
Theatre Deli has been a driving force within the arts since 2008, taking over empty spaces in city centres, and creating hubs that support emerging artists, companies and communities whose identities, backgrounds, disciplines or work are underrepresented in theatre.