About

As a designer, artist and photographer himself, Joe Madeira’s vision is to create a collaborative environment in which a more holistic approach to art and design can develop and flourish.

Art and design enjoy an increasing and interdependent influence on each other, especially in advertising, technology and media. The Old Sweet Shop draws artists and designers into a relevant community, where both the commercial and the non-commercial, the artist and the designer can develop work together for mutual benefit, through shared ideas and a network of joint projects, to create truly forward-looking work.

The Old Sweet Shop is a hub for commissioned and self-initiated ideas, a place where the business of thinking, making, showing, selling is not just ‘business’, it is a way of life.