Project Market-space is an artist-run event initiative co-founded by Wen Pei in February 2023 that ran bi-mothly until the end of 2026. Event production was led by Wen Pei and a team of Q/T/POC creatives with expertise across a range of mediums including photography, printing, ceramics, jewelry design, music production and dance.  With such diversity in their roots, Project Market-space endeavored to nurture supportive spaces for other emerging creatives across disciplines who had stories to tell and heart-work to share by being apart of Project Market-space events in various capacities regardless of their experience in the field - as stallholders, workshop facilitators or volunteers.

Under Wen Pei‘s leadership, Project Market-space supported more than 400 LGBTQIA+ or PoC creatives, with 96% of them identifying as emerging creatives or first-time participants. Events in 2025 brought in up to 900 attendees at each time, increasing by 6.5x since the initiative’s inception in 2023. 

Project Market-space has collaborated with Bankstown Arts Centre (City of Canterbury Bankstown) to present markets in line with Bankstown Food Festival (2024), and THUMPER for a night market fundraising for gender equality in China (2024).

Project Market-space acquired $5,000 in public funding support from Randwick City Council’s Town Hall Takeover Program in 2025 to run their events throughout the year collaboration with Hush Club for live music programming.

2025: Randwick Town Hall (Town Hall Takeover Program): https://www.randwick.nsw.gov.au/community/whats-on/events/2025/august/project-market-space-pop-ups2
2023-2024: 107 Green Square (now Joynton Avenue Creative Centre): https://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/home-an-exhibition-by-project-market-space

Instagram: @projectmarket_space