Visual Artist wanted
for ARTIST ROOMS: Joseph Beuys Exhibition
Heritage, Art and
Learning Project
Worcester City Art Gallery
26 October 2013 to 1 February 2014
Background to the project and Artist
Rooms
Beuys is often talked about as the most
influential artist of the late 20th century. He was German, but famous
internationally, particularly for his work connected to a group called Fluxus
which included Yoko Ono. Many of today's conceptual artists like Damian Hirst
owe a great deal to Beuys and his ideas.
Art Collector Anthony d'Offay recalls many
inspirational visits to Leicester City Art Gallery in his youth. When he
retired, he decided to work with the Tate Gallery and the National Museums of
Scotland to tour the artworks from his huge collection across the UK. Worcester
City Art Gallery has been chosen as one of the galleries to host an ARTIST
ROOMS exhibition in 2013. Worcester has a particularly fine art collection of
its own, particularly strong in landscapes both traditional and contemporary.
We are excited to be able to bring new insights into artist investigations of
the natural world with this exhibition curated from the ARTIST ROOMS
collection.
The aims of this heritage, art and learning project is to
bring together a group of young people from different backgrounds (high school
and local youth dance group) to work with an artist in creating their individual
and collaborative responses to the exhibition and in developing key themes
found in Beuys work. Outputs are to include a series of public
"happenings", dance events, a student exhibition and a series of
family and adult workshops linked to the project. Events are intended to raise
the profile of the exhibition within the City with our target groups.
We are also embedding a Young Curators scheme into this
project which will provide our chosen young people with the opportunity to find
out more about the work of museums and artists, job roles and responsibilities
and to visit other similar sites within our region. The appointed artist would
be required to oversee these visits. We would also wish to explore the
possibility of creating a Youth Forum for The Art Gallery and Museum as one of
the legacies of this project.
What we require:
The artist must have project
management experience as they will be expected to design the programme of activities
in consultation with museum staff, organise meeting dates, workshops and all
agreed deliverables throughout the project.
The artist must have significant
experience in working with staff and children at primary, middle and high
school level. Groups will incorporate mixed ability levels.
The artist will be accustomed to
facilitating the creation of 3D installations at varying scales, some of which could
involve film. This project is likely to include small to mid-scale work.
The artist will be expected to
conduct his/her own preliminary research regarding Joseph Beuys and devise a
programme for making this work accessible to groups.
The artist will be fully versant
in producing and adhering to creative schedules. The group will work to their
plan, developing ideas at each session through to completion of their
installations. However, we wish the artist to facilitate student work rather
than being to prescriptive of the outcome.
All planning and preparation will
be completed in advance and punctuality and good communication with museum
staff and participants is expected throughout the project.
The artist will have a resources
budget and is expected to be creative with his/her sourcing of appropriate materials
for the project. This includes maintaining a low carbon footprint wherever
possible including the use of Worcestershire Resource Exchange or similar.
The artist will provide own transport which is included in
the fee.
Knowledge of
Worcester and Worcestershire may be beneficial.
Availability:
The artist needs to be available for a total of 22 days (or
equivalent hours) between October 2013 and February 2014 to carry out the work.
Dates to be confirmed following appointment.
Attendance at meetings will also be required.
Fee: £4,000.00
(including personal travel) @ £180 per day (or equivalent hours).
Materials budget: In addition to the artist’s fee, there will be a separate
resources and group travel budget to cover trips to other relevant venues. This
will be managed by Museums Worcestershire.
How to apply:
Please send a covering letter with an initial response as
to how you approach this project with CV to: spope@worcestershire.gov.uk
Alternatively
you can send your application to:
Sue Pope
Learning & Outreach Manager
The Commandery
Sidbury
Worcestershire County Council
WR1 2HU
Deadline date for
applications: Monday 23rd September 4.00pm
Interviews: Wednesday
2nd October
Appointment to
commence: Monday 7th October
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