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| [ R O U N D A B O U T ] |Wolverhampton Chapel Ash A41 Ringroad Underpass |Sept 2023 -  Aug 2024

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

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

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’.

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 and multiple members of the Wolverhampton City Councils team.

Artist open call LIVE until 18th October 2023

A progression on from our previous residency project ‘Discursive Spaces’, Chapel Ash ROUNDABOUT will bring together community stakeholders from across Wolverhampton with 3 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.

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.

During 2-month residencies at Asylum gallery, 3 artists will create a layer for the space, collaborating with the community board. *Forms we are looking to include are a mural, a digital soundscape or AR layer, guerrilla gardening and sculpture/or light installation.

Artists will be mid-career, experienced co-producing with communities. Their work will speak to the space’s history and respond to needs of current users.

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.

Artist Commission x 3 

 

Applications should include:

  • CV

  • Proposed approach to the commission addressing the criteria (maximum 2 sides A4) please also include your availability and preferred residency.

  • Draft costing within specified budget, covering fee, materials and fabrication costs, and installation works and   costings

  • Up to 8 images of past work with completed image list, the combined size of emailed attachments must be NO MORE THAN 5MB; you can also link through to video hosting platforms.

 

Please submit applications via email to info@theasylumartgallery.com with the subject line ‘Artist commission application – Roundabout’ by MIDNIGHT on the 18th October 2023 If you have any further questions regarding the project, please feel free to contact us.

 

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