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The Lacuna Studios are residential studio spaces in Cocentaina, Alicante for creative people.

10/05/2026

We are back at The Lacuna Studios. The skies are blue. The sun is shining and the olive trees are blossoming. Soon the olives will be growing and in no time at all we will be back to harvesting and pressing! And this year we are inviting you to be a part of harvest.

We are looking for volunteers to stay for 1 or 2 weeks during November and December. Your stay is free (of course!) and on harvest days you'll be invited to join us in a communal feast after we've been to the Co-op with our harvest for the day. Aside from harvesting, your time is your own to explore the local area, relax around the pool or just enjoy the countryside.

We'll ask you to work approx. 4 hours in the grove. Jobs include picking the olives by hand, harvesting using an olive tickler, moving the olive nets, collecting the full crates up, strimming, and stacking up any leftover branches. It is likely we will harvest 4 or 5 days a week but it is really weather dependent. No harvesting can be done in the rain or if it's too blustery.

If you are interested or would like to find out more, please get in touch directly with us by sending us a message here on Facebook.

15/04/2026

It's been a quiet couple of months on our Instagram but that's because it's so busy in real life! We're working on our new website, observing the changes in the grove as the seasons change, studying online and adding important texts to our library. There are more updates coming soon so watch this space!

31/01/2026

Another busy week here at TLS. We have been learning how best to develop our olive grove, moving towards eco-friendly and regenerative farming methods.
We had the privilege to be able to attend this year's VI AOVE FORUM INTERNACIONAL FIRA DE TOTS SANTS in Cocentaina
(The 6th International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Forum)

19/01/2026

.......and that is the end of our first olive harvest!

I'm so proud of everything we have achieved, despite the challenges.

Challenges we faced:-
Learning on the job, with zero knowledge of harvesting olives.
Lots of days with heavy rain.
Lots of days with the ground too wet.
Almost three weeks without the equipment (waiting on parts arriving from Italy).
Three days a week off-limits due to other work commitments.
Weeks of sickness.

What we achieved:-
We learned how to handle and use olive nets (6m x 10m).
We learned how to collect the olives from the trees, both by hand with olive rakes and with handheld 'olive ticklers'.
We managed to harvest more than 3/4 of our harvestable trees.
We had two days worth of olive harvest converted to our very own 'Cold Pressed, virgin olive oil', which was picked, pressed, bottled and delivered in less than a week (from tree to table).
We collected 2729kg of olives (that's almost 3 tonnes!)
.........we all survived!

Massive thanks go to...

Sarah Mason
Susan Jane Mason
Damon Mason
Jacqui
Jamie -
Oh and me, Simon Turner
The mill team - Cooperativa Agricola Catolica, Coop.V

Follow us here The Lacuna Studios to keep up with our progress as we develop our residential art studios and all that our olive grove has to offer.

17/01/2026

We had an amazing night last night at the inauguration of 'El mar hirviendo' by Gordana Zikic at The Local Air Valencia
It was great to meet up with some amazing artists, view Gordana's fabulous exhibition, and also get a behind the scenes tour of the great space created by Dr Theresa Wilshusen

About the Artist

Gordana Zikic - Gotza Gotza is an interdisciplinary artist, community builder, and curator based in Barcelona, working internationally. Her artistic practice moves fluidly across painting, drawing, photography, installation, performance, video, and material-based processes, grounded in long-term research and embodied experience.

Her work draws on ecology, archaeology, spirituality, and ritual practices, often referencing ancient symbolic systems and reinterpreting them through contemporary forms. Rather than reproducing traditions, she approaches ritual as a living process-something that can be adapted, fragmented, and reimagined to speak to present-day realities.

Water and the sea recur throughout her practice as both material and metaphor: sites of reflection, instability, memory, and transformation. These elements function as thresholds-spaces where personal narratives intersect with collective histories, and where identity is understood as fluid rather than fixed.

Alongside her artistic practice, she is deeply engaged in building artistic communities and collaborative frameworks. She is the co-founder and director of the art association Center 424, co-founder of Belgrade Artist in Residence, and initiator of Virtual Studio Groups (VSG), creating spaces for exchange, support, and shared inquiry among artists across borders.

She holds a Ph.D. in Art from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade (2018) and is a member of ULUS (Serbia) and La Escocesa (Spain).

03/01/2026

We are still working hard harvesting this year's olive crop.

Watch this space in the coming weeks for interesting news about The Lacuna Studios very own fresh, cold-pressed, extra virgin olive oil.

Art studios with a difference!

29/11/2025

A busy day harvesting down in the olive grove, we had a special guest join us for our morning break. Bellina, the matriarch of our animal family, loves being out and about in the grove. She decided to come and join us for tea and cake in the sunshine down on the third terrace.

On our way to TWO TONNES of hand-picked olives. (Just over 1750kg so far)

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Website

http://thelacunastudios.com/, http://linktr.ee/lacunafestivals, http://linktr.ee/lacunafestivals

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