WHEN: Friday, 26 November, 6 – 7.30pm
WHERE: Online (Book Here)
Join Bloc Projects, Maud Haya-Baviera and the Kaleidoscope Network for for this online workshop.
Maud Haya-Baviera is an artist and university lecturer who has been delivering workshops around accounting, self employment and taxes for the last five years. In this session they will introduce self-employment and freelancing for those taking the next step into this world and those who need assistance with understanding and navigating taxes and finance.
The session will cover:
The pros and cons of being self employed.
The basic differences between working as a Sole Trader and setting up a Limited Company
Tax and HMRC requirements for Sole Traders
How to stay organised
Useful resources and guidance.
About Maud:
Maud Haya-Baviera’s practice spans video, photography, sculpture and installation. Alongside her individual practice, she is a member of the Heavy Water Collective with artists Victoria Lucas and Joanna Whittle. Recent solo exhibitions with Heavy Water include Gathering Landscapes at Weston Park Museum, Sheffield (2025–26); The Properties of Darkness at Sovereign Design House Gallery, Huddersfield (2025); Hollows at The Hanover Project, Preston (2025); and a collaboration with the Sedgwick Museum, presented at GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn (2024). Earlier exhibitions with Heavy Water include presentations at Site Gallery, Sheffield (2021), Freelands Foundation, London (2022), and G39, Cardiff (2023).
Haya-Baviera’s solo exhibitions include presentations at Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth (2022), Künstlerhaus Dortmund (2019), and Site Gallery, Sheffield (2011). Her group exhibitions include Memorial Gestures, Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds (2025); One Minute Volume 9, London (2024); Brewers Towner International, Towner Eastbourne (2022–23); Aggregate, Freelands Foundation, London (2022); Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (2021); and Talking Sense, The Portico Library, Manchester (2020).
Earlier this year, Haya-Baviera was selected as a Testing Ground Artist in Residence at Yorkshire Artspace. She was awarded the Iby Knill Bursary for a residency at Holocaust Centre North (2023–24), and has held residencies at Site Gallery, Sheffield, through the Freelands Artists’ Programme (2019–21), Künstlerhaus Dortmund (2019), and the University of Derby (2018–19).
Her commissions include a public artwork for the Crookes neighbourhood of Sheffield (2026–27), a public artwork for ARTHOUSES LOCALwifi, Whitley Bay (2021), a podcast for Montez Press Radio (2022), and the artists’ book Sheffield Pavilion, commissioned by Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum and distributed at the Venice Biennale and documenta in Kassel. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and is held in public and private collections.
This workshop has been organised Bloc Projects for members of EOP and the Kaleidoscope Network. The Kaleidsocope Network is a collaboration between Eastside Projects (Birmingham), Spike Island (Bristol), Primary (Nottingham), The NewBridge Project (Newcastle) and Bloc Projects (Sheffield). Membership of any of the above organisations automatically makes you part of the Kaleidoscope Network.