Eastside Projects present Yanjiang Group's Shu Fa at Cricket Pavilion at Frieze Art Fair

Yangjiang Group: Shu Fa at Cricket Pavilion
Regent’s Park, London, UK
11 – 13 October, 12–7pm / 14 October, 12–6pm 

 
Frieze Art Fair, London Yangjiang Group’s large scale ‘Shu Fa at Cricket Pavilion’ structure, co-commissioned by Eastside Projects and Grizedale Arts, will be a major part of Frieze Projects. For Frieze London, Grizedale Arts and Frieze Foundation will host a programme of food-related performance, discussion, representation and retail, with new commissions by Nicolas Party, Alistair Frost, Juneau Projects, Bedwyr Williams, William Pope L, as well as talks by food historians and specialists, plus unique dining opportunities. Eastside Projects will also run a stall within the pavilion presenting artists’ bread and fortune cookies alongside food by The Lombard Method and Edible Eastside.

Eastside Projects offering two Artist Residencies in Bristol and Dublin

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Application deadline: Monday 29 October

Eastside Projects is delighted to offer two residencies in partnership with Spike Island in Bristol and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios in Dublin. These residencies are open to all artists based in the West Midlands and offer time and space to develop work and ideas as well as new networks and professional connections. They are funded by Turning Point West Midlands.

Both residencies will run for one month, from 1st February to 1st March 2013.

Each residency artist will receive:
A Fee of £1000
Studio space and access to other facilities
Travel costs to and from the West Midlands
Critical input and mentoring

For full details click here.
For application form click here.

Please click on the following links for more information about Eastside Projects and the Extra Special People programme. 

New Art Writing Bursary recipient announced

Grand Union and Eastside Projects are delighted to announce that Elizabeth Pearson is to be the recipient of this year's New Art Writing Bursary. 

Elizabeth, a recent graduate of BA Visual Arts by Negotiated Study at BIAD, Birmingham City University, will work with This is Tomorrow and an artist mentor (to be selected with support from Jane Rolo, Director of Bookworks), to develop her writing skills and create new work for publication. 

The New Art Writing Bursary is funded by Turning Point West Midlands.

Deadline approaching: new Art Writers Bursary 2012

There is one week left to apply for the 2012 New Art Writing Bursary.

Please CLICK HERE for more information. 

Grand Union and Eastside Projects are delighted to launch the 2012 New Art Writing Bursary. The bursary will support one new or emerging West Midlands-based practitioner for nine months as they develop critical and creative writing as, and about, art. By providing mentoring alongside opportunities to produce work for publication, the bursary intends to encourage art writing within the West Midlands, giving a platform for new writers to develop their practice and professional networks.

Deadline: 27 July 2012

There is one week left to apply for the 2012 New Art Writing Bursary.

Please CLICK HERE for more information. 

Grand Union and Eastside Projects are delighted to launch the 2012 New Art Writing Bursary. The bursary will support one new or emerging West Midlands-based practitioner for nine months as they develop critical and creative writing as, and about, art. By providing mentoring alongside opportunities to produce work for publication, the bursary intends to encourage art writing within the West Midlands, giving a platform for new writers to develop their practice and professional networks.

Deadline: 27 July 2012

Grand Union announces 2012 New Art Writing Bursary and calls for new art-writers

Grand Union and Eastside Projects are delighted to launch the 2012 New Art Writing Bursary. The bursary will support one new or emerging West Midlands-based practitioner for nine months as they develop critical and creative writing as, and about, art. By providing mentoring alongside opportunities to produce work for publication, the bursary intends to encourage art writing within the West Midlands, giving a platform for new writers to develop their practice and professional networks.

The selected writer will receive:

*  Three half-day mentoring sessions with this is tomorrow editors James Smith and Maggie Gray, focusing on research and writing styles for reviews and interviews. Working with James and Maggie, the bursary awardee will produce one review and one interview for publication on thisistomorrow.info and tpwestmidlands.org.uk 

*  Three half-day mentoring sessions with a writer identified following the selection process by Jane Rolo, (Director, Bookworks) focusing on creative writing styles and practice. The bursary awardee, with the support of their mentor, Grand Union and Eastside Projects, will produce one piece of writing as art, for presentation, publication or performance.

*  The bursary awardee will receive a £1500 fee payable in three stages over nine months.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW DETAILS OF HOW TO APPLY
 

Deadline: 27 July 2012

The project will run from October 2012 to June 2013 — a schedule for mentoring sessions and writing deadlines will be agreed at the start of the project. This opportunity is funded by Turning Point West Midlands.

Join the conversation: presentations from our 3rd National Summit now available online

The 3rd Turning Point National Summit took place on 10 May 2012 at City Hall, London.

The day started with an opening address from Gavin Wade, Director of Eastside Projects and member of our TPWM Steering Group. 

CLICK HERE to read a transcript of Gavin's address, entitled 'The Doors of the Administration Building'. 

The Contemporary Visual Art Network has also posted the rest of the presentations from the day online. Click on the links below to view these:

Measuring Value 

Alternative Economies

Conceptualising Engagement 

Visual arts and the Education Agenda

The #tpnsummit Twitter hashtag is still active, please continue to add your thoughts and comments.  

TPWM Artist Residencies & Critical Writing Bursaries 2012- 2013

Faye Claridge, Descendants of the Unfamiliar, series of framed photographic prints, courtesy of the artist and Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, 2009

Four organisations in the West Midlands will lead on TPWN new artist residency opportunities and one organisation on a critical writing project: 

Library of Birmingham

The West Midlands based artist Faye Claridge will develop new work that engages with the work of Sir Benjamin Stone photographic archive in the new Library of Birmingham. Faye Claridge uses photography, video and installation and shows work internationally and through Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art.  

 Faye Claridge says: 

I’m excited about the TPWM funded residency because it will allow me to work with a collection that I’ve been interested in for years, both for its content and its ostentatious ambition of creating ‘A Record of England’ in photographs. It’ll be fantastic to bring a new audience to Sir Benjamin Stone’s work and use the opportunity to look at how photographic projects from the turn of the 20^th century can be part of a critical debate about the role of photography today.

The Library of Birmingham is building on its recent programme of exhibition and publication projects, these include Brian Griffin; Face to Face A Retrospective, Take to the Streets, Magnum Street Photography, Perspectives, Ghosting the Archive: Keith Piper and Reference Works, Library of Birmingham by establishing this Artist-In-Residence commission in 2012/13.  There will be an exhibition of new work in 2014.

National Trust, Dudmaston 

The National Trust will invite an artist to explore the collection at Dudmaston Hall in Shropshire. The collection includes works from the 1920's to the 1960's by modern British artists such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson.

The National Trust will increase links between Dudmaston and contemporary art and artists and has identified partners and networks with which to work, including Shropshire Visual Arts Network, Shropshire and Telford Arts Partnership and Shropshire Audience Development Network. It already has links with the curatorial team at New Art Gallery Walsall from the time the artist Bob and Roberta Smith responded to the Epstein archive.

University of Worcester, with Movement Gallery and Worcester City Museum

The University of Worcester with partners Movement Gallery and Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery will work to support a new artist in residence. The artist will interact with the context of the City of Worcester with the City as site for intervention, production and discourse and as a resource that includes archives and collections.  The artist will have the opportunity to contribute to a critically engaged environment and will engage with other artists, curators, academics and the people in Worcester and the wider region. 

Eastside Projects

The Residency opportunity will focus on research and development and studio experimentation. Two short term residency opportunities for West Midland based artists will be offered to emerging and established artists. Eastside Projects works with a network of prestigious arts organisations outside the West Midlands and the artists will be hosted by these organisations to develop their ideas, thinking and networks and to develop new work in contexts outside the region. Mentoring will also be offered as part of the residencies.

Writing Bursary: Grand Union

TPWM has awarded a writing bursary to Grand Union (in association with Eastside Projects), in order to offer an opportunity for a new or emerging writer to develop skills in critical writing for publication and encourage writing practice within the West Midlands.  The writing bursary will be awarded following an open submission. More details will be available soon on the Grand Union website.

We received several strong proposals and although not possible to fund them all, TPWM will work and help support groups and organisations that are keen to collaborate with each other. The proposals that have been selected all demonstrated a high level of support for the artist, a strong knowledge of quality and ambitious work and clear plans to develop links with others beyond the lead institution.

Each lead organisation (with the exception of the Library of Birmingham) will put a call out to artists to apply in due course and this will be included in TPWM's Artists' News & Opportunities Bulletin.

Turning Point 3rd National Summit: introducing the new Contemporary Visual Arts Network

Thursday 10 May 2012 saw members of the 11 regional Turning Point groups descend upon Boris Johnson's residence, London's City Hall, for the network's 3nd National Summit.

Also in attendence were artists, curators, gallerists, art educators and academics, who all came together to launch the Contemporary Visual Arts Network, or CVAN, which is the new name for Turning Point National and marks a new direction for their strategy, identity, brand and web presence. A number of the other Turning Point regions will now also be referred to as Contemporary Visual Art Networks, but after much consideration, Turning Point West Midlands will not be following suit and changing its name.

You can read or download the press release which outlines the new CVAN vision HERE. 

The morning's introductions included a rousing tour de force by our Steering Group member Gavin Wade of Eastside Projects.  In the coming days we will be uploading videos and some of these presentations, so even if you weren't able to make it, you can still feed into the debate. The audience and participants made good use of Twitter throughout, so please do add your voice to the debate using the #tpnsummit hashtag.

Throughout the day there were four key areas of debate: 

- Measuring Value

What new forms of measuring value could we consider in order to find ways of:

• Advocating for the need for a myriad of visual art organisations to receive public funding?
• Articulating the deferred value of small organisations investing in or commissioning early artistic practice and CPD that leads to bigger and better things?  

Find out more, and read about the panel...

- Alternative Economies

What other forms of non-cash economies can we adopt to enable artists and organisations to continue to develop their practice in this difficult financial climate? What forms of gift economies are artists embracing within their work? This panel featured Sarah Browne, an artist who recently held her first UK show at Ikon Gallery.

Find out more, and read about the panel...

- Conceptualising Engagement

Quality of experience is a key concept in Arts Council England’s strategy, and a KPI for many NPO organisations, however, Arts Council England has not produced a conceptualisation that would enable this concept. Doing so is vital activity, so how do we do it and what should we consider?

Find out more, and read about the panel...

- Visual Arts and the Education Agenda

What arguments can the visual arts collate to demonstrate the value and importance of visual arts education within all levels of education provision and how can the sector support investment and growth within the creative industries post Education? 

Find out more, and read about the panel...

There were very interesting contributions from panel members during these discussions, in addition to some excellent insights from people based outside the visual arts sector who offered their perspectives from a business or charitable point of view. We also enjoyed a presentation from artist Richard John Jones of Auto Italia South East. 

TPWM would like to thank the Contemporary Visual Art Network for hosting the day, and for all of you who made such a valuable contribution.