The Riverfront is excited to announce a call out for CREATIVE COMMISIONS, offering 3 opportunities to young creators (18-25 years of age) or artists who work with groups of people aged 18-25, who live and / or work locally to the art centre to develop a body of work responding to themes explored as part of The (Future) Wales Coast Path project.
Application deadline:12th July
Notification period:15th July
Project start: 29th July
Number of Commissions available: 3
Professional Fee: £1500
Host organisation: The Riverfront
Location: Artists can choose to work from home or in their own studisupported by The Riverfront staff online, from our venue spaces, or a combination of the two.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The (Future) Wales Coast Path is a year-long series of creative events and installations exploring the impact sea level rise could have on the coastline of Wales, and investigating our relationship to land and water.
Project lead, Alison Neighbour, is currently developing this project in Newport and Magor, creating maps, walking scores, and guidebooks with the local community, as well as connecting with a community in the Indian Sundarbans in collaboration with choreographer Vikram Iyengar. The first stage of activity took place in February 2022. Lighthouses will be installed in Newport and Magor from April -October 2022 and additional public activities will be in April, May, July, September and October 2022.
Find out more: https://futurecoastpath.org/about/
Creative Commission
The Creative Commission is for a period of focused research and development time to produce a Creative response to themes provoked by The (Future) Wales Coast Path and Climate Change Awareness. Outcomes produced as part of this project will be exhibited in The Riverfront Arts Centre as well as on-line.
The opportunity is open to artists working in any artform and whilst it is not compulsory, we do have a particular interest in artists and ideas that respond in some way to water, the land and place mapping – for example, through connections with people, passions, histories, landscape or other uniqueness of the places and communities that we are part of.
To make this opportunity as accessible as possible, we will offer this as a hybrid residency, meaning artists can choose to work from home or their own studio spaces, from space in our venue, or a combination of the two.
Individuals, collaborations, or collectives can apply and must be based in one of the areas linked to the Gwent Levels (namely Newport, Torfaen, Monmouthshire and Cardiff).
SUPPORT
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Each selected artist, collaborations or collectives will receive a fee of £1500 paid in two instalments.
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The facilities in our building including studio and rehearsal space.
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Staff time to support your research (e.g. mentoring and feedback sessions, brokering relationships with communities or support with funding applications).
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We also offer sessions where the selected Artists can meet and share ideas and thoughts as part of a peer-to-peer network.
HOW TO APPLY
In the application form we ask you to share with us:
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How you will use this opportunity (your research idea); how it will develop your practice; and what relevant help you think we can provide (300-500 words)
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Your biography with examples of your previous work (images, videos, audio files, written texts)
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Your CV (optional)
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Audio or video files are welcome as an alternative to a written application but must be within 8 minutes in length.
If you have any other questions or you would like to suggest a way to make this process more accessible, please contact Danielle Rowlands - Education Officer of Newport Live via danielle.rowlands@newportlive.co.uk
