Calling all Artists!

Would you like to make work to be displayed in the heart of North Berwick?

The North Berwick pARTicipate arts project has received further grants which will enable us to commission four art installations, and complementary outreach activities, at the Art Kiosk phone boxes. These tiny spaces have been transformed and you can follow the phone boxes story by scrolling through our Instagram account, https://www.instagram.com/participate_nb/

INSTALLATIONS
Temporary art installations occupy the centre cabin of three; it has a lockable glass door and six spotlights; three walls each c.68cms x 2m, plus a 68 x 68 cms floor which can also be treated as a surface. Installations are permanently lit; no additional power outlet/socket

BRIEF

As a community-based arts project installations have three aims:

o   To place visual art in the heart of North Berwick’s conservation area at the centre of North Berwick Coastal Ward

o   To use form and content in ways likely to interest, intrigue, delight and attract the community

o   To encourage reflection and comment on themes that engage with the varied shared interests, lives, and experiences of residents in North Berwick Coastal

Installations can use a wide range of materials and techniques including drawing, painting, or collaging on walls and floor; suspending elements from the ceiling; free-standing floor pieces; more complex construction or ‘still life’ elements; carved, modelled, or constructed elements requiring to be displayed on stands or plinths.

FEE

The fee for an installation is up to £700 for all surfaces. Smaller installations (requiring less input of time) can be discussed.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT
Further funds are available to complement the main display. This might entail workshops; a supplementary display created by the community; the production of ‘multiples’ (postcards; colouring projects; small constructions). An installation might encourage the community to ‘engage’ by mark-making in the adjacent kiosk.

A SUSTAINABLE, LIVING INSTALLATION

Would you like to devise a sustainable installation, using a recycled or salvaged or repurposed container that would use drought tolerant plants that are also high on the index for carbon capture?

The budget is to be set but will be c£300. Please get in touch if you are interested in creating a sustainable, living installation.

TIMINGS

Slots are available during 2023 and timings are negotiable around existing programmed installations.

 To discuss any of these options please email Geraldine Prince, partcipatenb@gmail.com by 15 December 2022