In 2017 Eastside Projects closed due to refurbishment work supported by Birmingham City University, Arts Council England, Custard Factory and K4 Architects which resulted in a £250,000 revamp of the site.

The old office was a structure, "Pleasure Island", originally designed by Heather and Ivan Morison for the Welsh Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007.

EOP supports the development of work, ideas, connections and careers and programmes a huge range of events for artists, writers, curators and those with a more general interest in contemporary art.

EOP organises regular social events which can take the form of talks, crits, practical workshops, practice-led group discussions, support and mentoring surgeries.

Adopting the role of the incidental person, the group proposed getting involved in the processes of other organisations, from steel factories to government offices.

APG considered artists a hugely underused human creative resource that offered a potential benefit of tangential thinking and making.

We are the dreamers and doers, collaborators and supporters, guests and hosts who work alongside communities to imagine and co-evolve our civic infrastructure” - Eastside Projects, 2022 Currently an Incidental Artist will work with Eastside Projects for a period of 18 months, during which the Incidental Artist will spend time researching and developing their practice for a public sharing event.