Markham Vale 13Apr10

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Helping People Make Better Places


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The immediate public art vision for Markham Vale is to propose 6 deliverable pilot projects,

linked to short, medium and long term stages. It is suggested that in time, this commissioning

strategy expands from more physical Public Art to also include something more participatoryand events-led Art in Public.

Public Art commissions can be:

Permanent or semi-permanent

Made as place specific or brought in as pre-existing studio based work;

Long-term or time-limited;

Made in reference to a small commissioning group or by wider consultation.

Art in Public can also involve:

Street theatre, performance, spectacle, cultural festivals and live events;

Other Music, dance, theatre, literature events;

Processions and Carnivals;

Temporary installation, altering or animation of a physical space;

Community based activity which embraces a place-specific and place-making ambition.

Public Art Vision


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As such, in the short term stage (2010 to 2013) 6 initial pilot commissions are suggested as

being split between public art and art in public - namely:

Public Art Commissions

Eco Gateway Commission J29A iconic flagship linked to environmental centre & marketing

Mining Memorial Memorial walk linking series of sensitive interpretation spaces & seating

Staveley Basin Community performance space as part of new canal basin

Art in Public Commissions

Peripatetic Recurring residency to develop a string of shelters and sites

Networks & Trails Recurring residency to explore new trails and networks

Community Arts & Placemaking Recurring residency to develop community arts and

placemaking

Short Term 6 Commissions


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This proposal is for the long term establishment of a major landmark public art gateway that

links to the overall sustainable and ecological ambitions of Markham Vale and acts as a highly

visible iconic symbol from the M1, as well as on marketing, media and PR releases. The long

term aim would be to secure funding to realise a quality commission that utilises both high

tech interactive new media and as such linked to all environmental issues including some

form of visible electronic sensor and webcam connected wirelessly within the Environmental

Centre lobby.

01 Eco Gateway Commission Core Concept

Image: Litmus by Jason Bruges Studio


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The immediate focus however, would be on developing the brief with a number of

stakeholders (including Highways Agency) and then soliciting a feasibility from a limited

number of artists to develop detailed designs and to then prepare funding applications. Key

components envisaged are:

Bold / Tall / Visible icon

Electronically linked to Environment Centre and other sites and future phasesBREEAM Good rating minimum

Kinetic Sci-Art engineering

Methane / solar / wind / heat pump powered

Recycled materials utilised

Located near landfill

Product R&D and design and associated PR linked to Markham Vale - including use of

marketing colours and logo

01 Eco Gateway Commission Visualised Components


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01 Eco Commission Suggested Precedents / Artists

Litmus by Jason Bruges

Studio

Four landmark

sculptures that work like

giant litmus papers to

respond to a variety of

environmental stimuli.

Commissioned by the

London Borough of

Havering.

Field of Play by Tim

Knowles

A live interactive light

drawing work using

CCTV and video

processing technology

the piece tracks the

publics movements within

Millennium square in

Bristol.


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01 Eco Commission Suggested Precedents / Artists

Threshold Horsecross

concert hall by Alexander

Hamilton

Software and artists add

a layer of interactivity to

the public areas and

enable the building to

change its look and feel

at the touch of a button or

a sensor.

Weather Flower

by Tonkin Liu

A wind-powered

interactive

lighting artwork

for Widnes

Waterfront EDZ

site on the banks

of the River

Mersey.

Shoal by Nayan Kulkarni

Interactive light work for

new buildings in the St

Davids regeneration.

Kulkarni has developed

software control that

utilises shoaling

algorithms to respond to

local sound and weather

inputs.


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01 Eco Gateway Commission Expenditure & Income

Outgoings / Expenditure Based on assumptions of a 3-stage project development

(Enabling, Fund Raising and Delivery), with estimated (minimum) core costs of circa 320k:

Enabling Stage @ 16,000(6 months Target Completion by November 2010)

Shortlisted Artist Fees 6,000 (4 x 1.5k)

Design Feasibility / Detail Design Fees 10,000

Fund Raising Stage @ 10,000 (12 months Target Completion by March 2011)

Funding Applications 10,000 (by others, or possibly in-house as in-kind contribution)

Delivery Stage @ 294,000(24 months Target Completion by 2011 / 2012)

Capital Costs - 180,000

Artist / Professional Fees (25% of capital costs with Detail Design Fee) - 35,000

Capital Contingency - 43,000

Delivery Stage Management Fee Budget - (10% of capital costs) - 18,000

Maintenance - (10% of capital costs) - 18,000


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01 Eco Gateway Commission Expenditure & Income

Income / Funding Based on assumptions as a starting point, and a target 320k budget

the following funding strands are anticipated comprising target income of:

Core Funding - 50,000 (21k used to seed fund artist commissioning, feasibility and funding

application)

Henry Boot Developments - target 50,000

EMDA funding application target 110,000

Landfill Credit / LEADER Approach application target 110,000


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Stage 1 artist shortlisting and detail design and Stage 2 capital funding applications can be

carried out in well under 12 months if enabling budgets and the will are in place. This will then

provide a high profile marketing and fund raising platform. Capital funding securement,

production design and stakeholder negotiations and fabrication / installation are all then likely

to take between 12 and 24 months (based on precedents elsewhere in the UK) and this will

likely take the project beyond Markham Vale Works Phase 1d and into the next Phase

sequence (2011/12 and/or 2012/13).

01 Eco Gateway Commission Programme


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The proposal is for the long term creation of a landscaped walk as 'linear' visitor destination

that both acts as a sensitive, reflective and discrete memorial (particularly the 1938 and 1973

Markham Colliery disasters); but also a National memorial for Deep Mining, as well as a

forward-looking celebration to the vibrancy of this ex-mining community, and its future

potential to come. Rather than a small insignificant memorial, this is seen as a series of

landmark commissions that collectively add up to greater than the sum of its parts. As with

other projects, the ethos of the commission would link to the overall sustainable and

ecological ambitions of Markham Vale.

02 Mining Memorial Core Concept

Image: Camel Trail by Mor Design


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The long term aim would be to secure an uplift to the existing landscaping funding to realise

a quality commission that links a linear trail with public art memorial seating with

interpretation. This should be protected from the noise of the motorway and logically linked

at one part with the Environmental Centre. The immediate focus, would be on developing the

brief based on the earlier rounds of consultation and design considerations, and in running

immediate artist commissioning to help tease this out. Key components envisaged are:

Highly evocative and moving mining disaster memorial

Linear public art landscape walk and seating (hard and soft landscaping) with arts

interpretation

Parallel community media art project to inform interpretation (local aural history etc)

Quiet contemplative areas created, and linked to seating areas for business park users

Main memorial area adjacent to water feature and link across to elevated North Tip walk

02 Mining Memorial Visualised Components


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02 Mining Memorial Suggested Precedents / Artists

Camel Trail Seating by

Mor Design

Custom-designed

artistic seating with

integrated artwork for

the Camel Trail that

runs along 11 miles of

disused railway beside

the River Camel

Whitehaven Millennium

Benches by Stephen

Broadbent

A series of Millennium

benches as part of the

regeneration of

Whitehaven port in

Cumbria, custom designed

with maritime theme and

embedded text

Grainger Town seating

by Insite Design

Poet Julia Darling and

glass artist Cate

Watkinson collaborated

with Insite Design to

create unique seating to

Grainger Town


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02 Mining Memorial Suggested Precedents / Artists

Sonic Postcards by various

Sonic Postcards are innovative

education programme whichencourages pupils to explore their

local sound environments and

create sound postcards

Soundpool by Janek Schaefer

Interactive audio soundscape to

25m Bradford mirrorpool

fountain. Permanent installationproduced in conjunction with AV

specialists TMC and fountain

specialist Fountain Workshops


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Stage 1 artist shortlisting within 6 months. Stage 2 detail design and further capital funding

applications can be carried out in under 6 months if enabling budgets and the will are in

place. Capital funding securement, production design and stakeholder negotiations and

fabrication / installation are realistically likely to take between 12 and 24 months (subject to

funding approvals and based on size of the commission, and precedents elsewhere).

02 Mining Memorial Programme


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Outgoings / Expenditure Suggested as based on assumptions of a 3-stage programme,

with estimated (minimum) core costs of circa 207k anticipated comprising estimated

expenditure of:

Enabling/ Engagement Stage @ 20,000(6 months Target Completion)


Artist / Professional Fees - 12,000

Community Engagement Installations & Events - 4,000

Contingency - 2,000

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NOTE: This media commission phase is essentially the Community Arts & Placemakingproject for the first year of a 3-year proposed programme

Design Development Stage @ 32,000(6 months Target Completion)

Shortlisted Lead Artist Fees 8,000 (4 x 2k)

Detail Design Fees 10,000

Community Engagement Installations & Events - 4,000


Delivery Stage @ 155,000(12 - 24 months Target Completion)

Capital Build - 100,000 (as uplift to existing landscaping)

Artist & Professional Fees (25% of capital costs with Detail Design Fee) - 15,000




02 Mining Memorial Expenditure & Income


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Income / Funding Based on assumptions as a starting point, and a target 207k budget

the following funding strands are anticipated comprising target income of:

Core Funding - 107,000 (52k used to seed fund enabling commissioning, and design

development programme, detail design & funding application)


Other funding (ie. Coalfield Regeneration Trust) target 50,000

02 Mining Memorial Expenditure & Income


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The ultimate proposal is for the long term establishment of public art installation or gateway

at Staveley Town Basin (possible linked to a wider/strategic series) that can act as a staging

area or backdrop to community cultural and festival programmes, and can provide linkage

both into ongoing regeneration projects (under development or still at a conceptual stage);

and to wider environmental and ecological programmes.

03 Staveley Basin Core Concept

Image: Stravanger Amphitheatre by Acconci Studio


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The immediate focus however, would be on creating an artist residency to work in Staveley.

It is proposed that a prime project like the Chesterfield Canal Basin can provide linkages

both into the town centre and Heart of Staveley, as well as beyond to other networks and

trails and the performing and participatory arts focus to enable better place making.

Components envisaged are:

Sculptural land art performance space and/or amphitheatre at BasinIntegrated to a trail connecting the town to the canal basin and beyond to wider trails

Possible wider link to community cinema notion identified for Regal Cinema site

Possible link to other Staveley public art gateway commission ideas - by others, as part of

future Masterplan delivery

A strong ecological theme and brief running through this programme

03 Staveley Basin Visualised Components


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03 Staveley Basin Suggested Precedents / Artists

Arena by Rita McBride

Arena is a public sculpture

designed by New York artist RitaMcBride. It is made of white Ferro

cement and stands over 15 feet

(4.6 m) high overlooking the River

Irwell. It is part of the Irwell

Sculpture Trail.

Amphitheatre by Acconci Studio

The Acconci Studio in New York

has won the competition for thecommission of the Amphitheatre at

the New Concert Hall in Stavanger

competing against other noted

and internationally-known artists.


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03 Staveley Basin Suggested Precedents / Artists

Garden for Cosmic

Speculation by Charles

Jencks

The unique landart ofCharles Jencks Portrack

garden at his house in

Dumfries carries forward

the ancient principles of

making gardens imitate

nature.

Aquarena by

William Pye

Site-specific

design combines

water sculpture

and a highly

original

performance

space

Our Space by Will Nash

The Our Space public art

project was

commissioned byWillingdon Community

School to transform a

disused courtyard

through consultation and

engagement with the

local community


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Outgoings / Expenditure Suggested as based on assumptions of a 2-stage funded

feasibility and delivery, with estimated (minimum) core costs of circa 90k anticipated

comprising estimated expenditure (and excluding any associated future artistic running or

programming costs) of:

Engagement Stage @ 10,000(15 months Target Completion by Apr 2011)


Design Feasibility / Detail Design Fees 2,500

Community Engagement Programme - 3,000


Enabling Stage @ 80,000(26 months Target Completion by Feb 2012)

Capital Costs - 50,000

Artist / Professional Fees (25% of capital costs with Detail Design Fee) - 10,000




03 Staveley Basin Expenditure & Income


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Income / Funding Based on assumptions as a starting point, and a target 90k budget the

following funding strands are anticipated comprising target income of:

Core Funding - 20,000 (10k used to seed fund artist commissioning, feasibility and fundingapplication)


Project Funding / Section 106 target 30,000

In-Kind - target 10,000 civil engineering, services construction materials and labour

03 Staveley Basin Expenditure & Income


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03 Staveley Basin Programme

Initial artist shortlisting and detail design and further capital funding applications can be carried

out in well under 15 months if enabling budgets and the will are in place - and needs to be in

place immediately to run parallel with actual design development process that precedes site

delivery. Capital funding securement, production design and stakeholder negotiations and

fabrication / installation will all be subject to the final Phase VI project programme and brief.


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Closely linked to the Routes & Trails project, the eventual proposal is for the medium termestablishment of an annually recurring artist residency programme that in time (and with

resources) could look to move around various places in the Markham Vale area over a

number of phases and evolve from just temporary commissioning into permanent as well.

Outputs of these residencies would be the creation of a series of works (possibly self-build

projects in a range of media, and with assistance from community groups) with the focus on

the community, place and environmental ambition of Markham Vale.

04 Peripatetic Core Concept

Images L to R: Singing Ringing Tree by Tonkin Liu & Caravan Gallery by Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale


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Artists will be targeted from a range of art forms. Construction of works (where applicable)

might look to use recycled / natural materials & landscape. The creation of permanent

shelters could be a recurring output - but this would need to be budgeted for as a capital

project, and subject to fund raising. The parallel Networks & Trails project would be linked into

this.

For the short term it is suggested that the first phase look to commission a one-off caravan-

based summer studio residency (with permission) at the Caravan Club Site at Pools BrookCountry Park. Components envisaged are:

Relocatable transient nomadic pods or shelters

Eco self-build art projects

Temporary Artist Residency / Hermitages

Artistic brief linked to Ecology Plans of Derbyshire County Council

04 Peripatetic Visualised Components


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04 Peripatetic Suggested Precedents / Artists (Short-Term Temporary Residencies Begin)

Caravan Gallery Jan

Williams and Chris Teasdale

The Caravan Gallery is a

mobile exhibition venue and

visual arts project run by

artists who are on a mission

to record the ordinary and

extraordinary details of life in

21st century Britain.

The Wonderful North - Bryan and Laura Davies

An mobile new media residency celebrating all that

is, well, wonderful about the North of England! Thewebsite presented an online Expo with pavilions

showcasing the objects, places and people

encountered during a month long exploration of the

North in a camper van.


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04 Peripatetic Suggested Precedents / Artists (Medium-Term Permanent Projects Begin)

Singing Ringing Tree

(Panopticon) Tonkin Liu

Series of landmarks, designed

to attract visitors into thecountryside to enjoy the

landscapes and attractions in

Lancashire. Each is situated on

a high-point site commanding

spectacular views. All are within

easy reach of the M65

Kielder Observatory Charles

Barclay Architects

The art and architecture programme

at Kielder has been running for

over fifteen years. There are now

over 20 pieces to see, set in an area

of 16 square miles, making the Park

the largest outdoor public art gallery

in the UK


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04 Peripatetic Suggested Precedents / Artists (Long-Term Residency Programme Begins)

Cove Park - Eileen and Peter

Jacobs

International centre in

Scotland for the arts andcreative industries. Annual

programme of residencies

enables national and

international artists, of all art

forms, undertake research

and develop new projects

SALT Residency Programme

Each residency offers one week's

accommodation, access to studio facilities

and a considered period of time to developnew work. The studio is offering space to

enable artists to dedicate time to the

exploration and development of their

practice


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04 Peripatetic Programme

Annual artist shortlisting, commissioning, evaluation and further funding applications can be

carried out in well under 10 months if budgets and the will are in place.

It is suggested that this project runs back-to-back with the commissions for both the Routes &

Trails and Community Arts & Placemaking programmes. For all projects, there will be the

possibility of involving the local community through a targeted local host including for

example local schools, and special need groups, including adults with severe learning

difficulties.


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Outgoings / Expenditure Running back-to-back with Routes & Trails and Community Arts

& Placemaking suggested as based on assumptions of estimated (minimum) core costs of

circa 30k (10k per annum recurring over 3 years) anticipated comprising estimatedexpenditure of:

Stage 1/2/3 Delivery @ 10,000 pa over 3 years (10 & 22 & 34 months Target approx

October of each year)



Capital Contingency - 1,000Caravan / Studio Hire - 2,000

Income / Funding Based on assumptions as a starting point, and a target 10k per annum

over 3 years, no funding strands are anticipated for the first 3-year stages of this particular

project. Establishment of the actual budget availability and evaluation of this project will then

determine a future funding plan target.

04 Peripatetic Expenditure & Income


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Closely linked to the Peripatetic project the eventual proposal here is for the medium term

establishment of a recurring artist residencies that could look to explore the various

connective routs and transport means that link the various places in the Markham Vale area.

Outputs of these residencies would be the creation of a series of temporary / ethereal works

with the focus on the community, place-specific and environmental ambitions of Markham

Vale generally.

05 Networks & Trails Core Concept

Images L to R: Geocaching & Looking for the Black Redstart by Claire Thornton


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Artists will be targeted from a range of art form and media, ranging from environmental artists

to new media and film makers. Artists will always will be encouraged to explore issues to do

with sustainable community and/or environmental and Health & Wellbeing issues. The parallel

Peripatetic project, with its creation of permanent or temporary shelters scattered along the

various routes and trails would be linked into this. Key components envisaged are:

Trails, networks and wayfinding

New media geocaching and pod cast interactives

Sustainable transport links (bus company sponsor?)

Links to Transpennine Trail

Links to Derbyshire County Council Countryside Service & Ecology Plans

Links to Chesterfield Canal Partnership

05 Networks & Trails Visualised Components


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05 Networks & Trails Suggested Precedents / Artists (Short-Term Residencies)

Kentish Walk Hamish

Fulton

A group art walk in

Canterbury led by the artist

followed a circle around

Canterbury's original city

walls. The only stipulations

to was that the walk be

done in silence, single file,

and 4 metres apart.

Social Fabric 71 - Jayne

Murray & Alisha Miller

Artist led project with

Travel West Midlands

redesigned the seating

fabric on the 71 route.

Worked with passengers

who use the bus to build up

a broader picture of the

social fabric of the area.

Looking for the Black

Redstart Claire Thornton

Public wildlife ramble along

metro nature corridor. A

series of activities and art

works incorporating public

performance was

supported by Centro (the

West Midlands Public

Transport Executive)


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05 Networks & Trails Suggested Precedents / Artists (Short-Term Residencies)

Forest of Dean Sculpture

Trust Soundwalks

Duncan Speakman

MP3 narrative walks,developed by artist with

local children and linked to

a Geocaching route to

locate a cache. This walk

used clues near sculptures

to harvest the co-ordinates.

Ticket Texts Tim Etchells

A series of Ticket Text

commissions as part of the

NEs Nexus Art on

Transport programme


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Outgoings / Expenditure Running back-to-back with Peripatetic and Community Arts &

Placemaking suggested as based on assumptions of estimated (minimum) core costs of

circa 30k (10k per annum recurring over 3 years) anticipated comprising estimatedexpenditure of:

Stage 1/2/3 Delivery @ 10,000 pa over 3 years (12 & 24 & 36 months Target approx

December of each year)



Capital Contingency - 1,000Caravan / Studio Hire - 2,000

Income / Funding Based on assumptions as a starting point, and a target 10k per annum

over 3 years, no funding strands are anticipated for the first 3-year stages of this particular

project. Establishment of the actual budget availability and evaluation of this project will then

determine a future funding plan target.

05 Networks & Trails Expenditure & Income


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05 Networks & Trails Programme

Annual artist shortlisting, commissioning, evaluation and further funding applications can be

carried out in well under 12 months if budgets and the will are in place.

It is suggested that this project runs back-to-back with the commissions for both the

Peripatetic and Community Arts & Placemaking programmes. For all projects, there will be the

possibility of involving the local community through a targeted local host.


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The eventual proposal is for the long term establishment of an ongoing and facilitatedcommunity cultural and festival programme that in time (and with resources) could look to link

various communities (that is, communities of place as well as of interest) of the North East

Derbyshire, Chesterfield and Bolsover districts in the Markham Vale area over a number of

phases. Outputs of such a programme would be the creation of a series of individual works

and rolling residencies that in time begin to develop into a more permanent and regular

programme.

06 Community Arts & Placemaking Core Concept

Image: Wonderwood by Amenity Space


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The immediate focus however, would be on enabling a network of communities, community

venues and cultural events, through the facilitation of Action Research via artist and creative

commissions. Linked to this would be briefs to explore physical public spaces; the performing

and participatory arts focus; as well as explorations into the use of social networking medias

to enable better place making. Key components envisaged are:

Improvements to community public space with consideration of cultural performacesInitiation of new cultural programmes

Rural Touring / Community networks expansion

Website and friends of facebook / blog equivalent ofwww.markhamvale.co.uk

Community medias explored through web podcasts, video and web TV/radio

Other Wayfinding, mapping and placemaking residencies commissionedLinks to Performing Arts Centre in Springwell Community School

06 Community Arts & Placemaking Visualised Components


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06 Community Arts & Placemaking Suggested Precedents / Artists

Regents Park The Treehouse Gallery

The Treehouse Gallery was an

innovative public project featuring afree daily program of events, arts,

musicology and activities in Regent's

Park to re-imagine one of the great

outdoor public spaces of the city

Wonderwood Amenity Space

Collaboration with Yorkshire Culture

Company for temporary installation onderelict site in Holbeck Urban Village


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06 Community Arts & Placemaking Suggested Precedents / Artists

Level Screen by First Movement

Level Screen is an innovative new mobile

product which enables people miles apart

to meet, connect and interact in a virtual

space by utilising digital technology. Runby First Movement which works with

learning disabled people and promotes

their unique creativity by placing them in a

situation where their work takes place

alongside other creative people.

Spaceshaper by CABE

Pat Gilbey is one of a number of

licenced CABE Spaceshaper

facilitator and Creative Arts

Professionals. An experiencedstoryteller, Pat uses stories to

provide environments which

enable groups to explore issues.


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Outgoings / Expenditure Running back-to-back with Peripatetic and Routes & Trails,

suggested as based on assumptions of estimated (minimum) core costs of circa 40k (20k

per annum recurring over 2 years *) anticipated comprising estimated expenditure of:

Stage 2/3 * Delivery @ 20,000 pa over 2 years (19 & 31 months Target approx July of

each year)



Community Engagement & Installations - 4,000

Contingency - 2,000

*NOTE: 1 per year anticipated for Years 2 and 3, but Year 1 merging with Mining Memorial

project commission)

Income / Funding Based on assumptions as a starting point, and a target 40k for 2 years

* budget the following funding strands are anticipated comprising target income of:

Core Funding - 10,000 (used as match fund)Other funding (ie. Arts Council England) target 30,000

06 Community Arts & Placemaking Expenditure & Income


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06 Community Arts & Placemaking Programme

Phase 2 artist shortlisting and funding applications can be carried out in well under 15 months

if budgets and the will are in place. The programme might look to develop a longer term

funding application on the back of the initially evaluated programme of Action Research.

It is suggested that this project runs back-to-back with the commissions for both the

Peripatetic as well as the Routes & Trails programmes. For all projects, there will be the

possibility of involving the local community through a targeted local host.


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Beam is proposing different approaches to the management of the proposals

included in this presentation and the corresponding report:

1. For the two larger commissions (01 Eco Gateway and 02 Mining Memorial), we are

suggesting Beam manages the initial stages of the process, and oversees the later

fundraising and delivery stages. Budget lines are included within our proposals for

undertaking the significant fund raising needed and management of the delivery stages.

2. For the work in Staveley (03 Town Basin Arena), we are suggesting Beam undertakes a

consultant role, working with and advising all the key stakeholders. There is some activity

Beam will lead on for the group of stakeholders, but it will do so with the support of

others.

3. For the smaller temporary commissions (04 Peripatetic, 05 Routes & Trails and 06

Community Art and Placemaking), we are suggesting Beam manages the complete

processes that will occur each year of the programme.

Management Proposal


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