Past Labs + Markets

  • Toronto March 2025 | Allan Gardens
  • Montreal April 2025 | GU
  • Hsinchu December 2025 | General Village
  • Halifax June 2026 | Centre for Art Tapes

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Goblin Market: Goblins Everywhere Lab

Goblins Everywhere Lab

Once a goblin, always a goblin.

Goblin Market is an artist’s economic lab inspired by the magical quality of fairytales and fables. This work is enabled through a place-to-place network of global creatives, each developing their responses to the increasingly volatile world in which we live.

Circular Mentorship
Artists learning from artists, building networks that grow over time.
Prototyping Abundance
Experimenting with creative ways to build a life in the arts.
Art in Every Neighbourhood
Bringing artistic imagination into public life.

Goblin Market

This is not a market. This is a movement towards artists finding more sustainable ways to create impact through their work.

Nodes

Nodes are run autonomously by artists under themes they care about, supporting the communities they care for. Any artist who has taken part in one or more Goblins Everywhere Labs and Goblin Markets is welcome to start their own node. Materials generated through Lab and Market activities will be shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Anyone who adapts the format is encouraged to share their version back under the same terms. This way, the network keeps growing.

Artists (42)

Funders & Partners

Documentations of past iterations provided by Nick Gallarza, Anna Arrobas, Antoine Simard-Legault, Luisa Ji, Abbey Richens, Benjamin Lappalainen, Joaquin Cardona, and William Dicks.

Dispatch from Goblin MarketNewsletter archive, 2025–2026. 19 letters on artists’ economies, gifts and markets.