middlesbrough art week is the north east’s leading annual contemporary art festival, with a free public programme of art exhibitions, workshops, talks and interactive installations. it was born in 2017 as an artist-led festival, powered by the auxiliary project space, now driven by a small growing team of artists, curators, coordinators & creative instigators; and fuelled by wide reaching partnerships. Maw is built on collaboration, support, nurturing of creative practices and artist ecologies in the north east. maw aims to connect artistic practice and ideas with like-minded peers nationally and internationally, and is committed to practice and principles of fair work and social justice.