This project has been generously funded by Arts Council England, receiving over £77k.

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This project is also part-funded £6,000 by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus. 

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In addition, Wolverhampton Arts and Culture will provide £3,000 NPO funding to support this project delivering to the ACE Cultural Communities Outcomes ‘Cultural Communities’ and ‘Creative People’.

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Our Community Board is also supported with representatives from;

Wolverhampton BID & Enjoy Wolverhampton, Curiosity Productions, Creative BlackCountry, Asylum Artist Studios & Wolves Art Club, (SUIT) Service User Involvement Team, Wolverhampton Voluntary and Community Action, Gatis Community Space, Wolverhampton Society of Artists, Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton University and multiple members of the Wolverhampton City Councils team.

About ROUNDABOUT

A progression on from our previous residency project ‘Discursive Spaces’, Chapel Ash ROUNDABOUT will bring together community stakeholders from across Wolverhampton with Midlands artists to regenerate a public underpass within the city into a space suitable for subsequent community activations, including performances of live music, spoken word, and dance.

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This 12-month project brings together Wolverhampton City Council, Art Gallery (WAG) and 8 community groups to regenerate a public underpass into a space where communities can program multiple interventions and events.

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During residencies at Asylum gallery, artists will create a layer for the space, collaborating with the community board. The artists who have been chosen are David Checkley, Billy Haynes, Hayley Wall, Luke Reader, and Luke Perry. Artists' work will speak to the space’s history and respond to needs of current users.

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The board will commission local creatives and invite their communities to test different uses for the space at the end of each residency, and a large community-led unveiling at the end of the project.

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The first residency artist is David Checkley. David’s proposal is to use a mixture of traditional sculptural materials, such as cut steel sheets, attached to lamp posts like sails or awnings which will create projected wayfaring and highlight other works in the space.

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Find out more by clicking on the buttons below, which will take you to pages about the chosen artists as we reveal more information about ROUNDABOUT...