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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 24, 2014 at 1:27pm

Andover Business Park, Public Commission Project Manager Vacancy

Accountable to: Test Valley Borough Council Arts Officer

TVBC and Goodman have recently commissioned Chris Brammall to undertake an exciting new public art project for Andover Business Park. The commission will be an important project for the town and the Business Park, and will need to be managed very carefully to ensure its smooth running over the next six months. TVBC are looking to appoint a project manager to co-ordinate the project from a local standpoint.

Project Management Roles and responsibilities:
- Regular reporting to Arts Officer on progress of the project
- Liaising with the artist, monitoring contract and ensuring it is met on time and on

budget
- Advocacy locally, regionally and nationally
- Organisation of community and/or stakeholder consultation in collaboration with

artist
- Ensuring budget milestones are met prior to payment points
- Setting up and overseeing maintenance, insurance and ownership issues
- Managing permissions and reporting procedures
- Monitoring technical, health and safety and risk assessment issues
- PR and marketing in collaboration with TVBC communications department,

including social media
- Coordinating with artist issues relating to installation including assisting with site

research and preparation issues, transport requirements - Organisation of Launch Event
- Monitoring and evaluation process
- Trouble shooting

- Documentation

Person Specification:
- Track record in project management for public art projects
- Experience in managing budgets
- Experience of marketing and publicity
- Be able to work within Andover or demonstrate how you could fulfil the role taking

account of the location

 

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 24, 2014 at 4:52am

Here is a short video by Jack Maddison of an exhibition
THEATRE OF IMAGINATION... longer version to follow in due course.

https://vimeo.com/88650092

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 23, 2014 at 4:12pm

So what did you think?
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/inside-rolls-royce-and-boodles/e...


The Million Pound Necklace: Inside Boodles
A look into the world of one of Britain's most exclusive jewellers, Boodles, as the family-run business that has been going for over 200 years, creates its most valuable collection of jewellery to date.

Boodles operates in a world of celebrity clients and super-wealthy diamond connoisseurs. Their jewellery is as likely to be seen on the red carpet as at exclusive high society balls. The ambition is for their product to be perfectly pitched and the service flawless.

But Boodles want to aim even higher, and it's up to company director Jody Wainwright to get them there.

The programme follows Jody and the business throughout the production and launch of Greenfire, a collection of jewellery made from 18 rare Columbian emeralds.

Meticulously hand-crafted, this £2.8 million suite of jewellery includes matching earrings, pendant, bracelet, rings, and, as its centrepiece, an emerald necklace set with over 1300 diamonds and worth £1 million. It is the firm's most ambitious project ever.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 19, 2014 at 5:37pm

Makers as Trainers and Employers
Craft Apprenticeships & Internships in the South East & Hampshire

Training programme
28th March at Making Space, Havant, Hampshire , 11.30am - 4.30pm
and
8th April at Farnham Maltings, Surrey , 10am - 4pm


Who is the programme for?

Established Makers are invited to participate in two days of training designed to equip makers with the knowledge and skills to take a step towards taking on an apprentice/intern, either as a sole trader or part of a consortium.

Making Space is offering a total of 10 sponsored and 10 unsponsored places for a two day training event. Makers can attend as individuals or propose up to two additional people who might become potential consortium members. Additional consortium members would also qualify for sponsored place.

Conditions of Acceptance:

Participants to attend both training days. For consortia attendance can be shared. Participants to prepare for the training by completing an Identifying Key Skills – Diagnostics worksheet. (Available upon booking)


Consortia could comprise any of the following - individual practitioners, studio groups, craft development agencies, independent curators and producers.

What is the format?
The format for the programme is a series of interlinked modules with presentations by makers and industry experts from Crafts Council, Cockpit Arts, Craft Central, Design Trust, Making Space, Frances Lord, Julian Stair, Margo Selby, CCSkills and Cynthia Cousens

Funding
Making Space has a pot of funding to support makers for up to £150 a day as a contribution towards time and travel expenses to attend the training days.

Host Bursaries
Four bursaries of £500 will be awarded to individuals or consortia attending both Training Days to help towards funding a pilot placement for a total of 5 days.

Booking
Please visit http://eepurl.com/PsUkb for more information about how to book

If you have any issues please email admin@makingspace.org and we can send you the forms.

Making Space is organising this programme as part of an Arts Council England strategically funded project that aims to strengthen the craft infrastructure in the South East.
For more information contact admin@makingspace.org or call 023 92472491

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 19, 2014 at 5:34pm

CERF+ conducts research to achieve a better understanding of the challenges faced by professional craft artists and to assist them in removing obstacles to the success of their careers and businesses.
Also: Regional and National Research (by other agencies)
Sustaining Careers: A Study of the Status of U.S. Craft Artists
CERF+’s 2013 survey of American craft artists, examines attitudes about craft trends, sales and income, insurance, emergency preparedness and recovery, and plans for their legacy. It also provides updates and comparison data with our 2004 national research study. Read the full study here.

http://issuu.com/cerfplus/docs/cerf__sustaining_careers?e=8465919/5...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 19, 2014 at 5:30am

Symposium on 17th Century Goldsmiths


Inside out: Goldsmiths in Early Seventeenth Century London is a day-long symposium at Goldsmiths' Hall on 25 April, marking the close of The Museum of London’s Cheapside Hoard exhibition. A few spaces remain but please book now (£45 with lunch included)

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 19, 2014 at 5:29am

Festival of Silver

‘Inspired’, part of Festival of Silver, is a selling exhibition of contemporary silver and furniture, hosted by the Goldsmiths’ Centre (Tues 8 – Sat 12 April). This exhibition showcases the work of 60 silversmiths and 21 furniture makers. Festival of Silver is sponsored by the Goldsmiths’ Company (Admission free).

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 17, 2014 at 10:58am

This Friday

Rising Stars 2014
Symposium for Emerging Makers
Friday 21 March
University for the Creative Arts Room W612
Falkner Road
Farnham GU9 7DS
Free admission
Booking required: 01252 713208, gallery@newashgate.org.uk

9.45 Registration

10.15 Welcome
Dr Outi Remes, Director, New Ashgate
Rebecca Skeels, Subject Leader for Post Graduate School of Craft and Design, University for the Creative Arts

10.20 Keynote: Portfolio Careers: Contemporary Crafts over the Past Thirty Years
Dr Maureen Bampton, Director, Bluecoat Display Centre
Making the most of career opportunities that present themselves, and examining emerging contemporary makers career patterns.

11.30 Signpost guide for new artists
Emilia Telese, Artist and Writer, a-n The Artists Information Company Signpost, a-n’s guide for new graduates is aimed at helping new graduates ‘negotiate the first few years out of higher education’. Signpost is a practical guide pointing to all the information and advice new artists need to get started in their chosen creative profession.


1.00 Lunch (to be organised independently)

2.00 Exciting taxation
Alison Branagan, Creative Industries Consultant
When you start selling your craftworks, accept commissions, run workshops or take on other creative freelance opportunities you must register yourself as a sole-trader (self-employed), partnership or as a limited company. This talk covers the gripping and exciting topic of tax for self-employed practitioners. We will embark on a thrilling journey where all that groovy accountancy jargon is explained. If you are presently a bit bewildered by what we mean by net profit and 'off-setting' business expenses, then by the end of this talk you will leave with a whole new enthusiasm for calculators, plastic wallets, box files and more.

3.00 Crafts Council and Hothouse programme
Madeleine Furness, Maker Development Officer, Crafts Council Introduction to the Craft Council and the Hothouse programme that supports emerging makers across the UK. Hothouse provides makers within two years of setting up their business and who already display a high level of technical craftsmanship and originality, with a tailor-made six-month programme of business and creative support.

3.30 Getting started - setting up a studio
Lynne Dick, Director, Making Space
Getting started and setting up a studio space, developing skills with a focus on what the Making Space does to support makers, in terms of business development touching on special projects which have provided employment and commissioning opportunities.

4.00 Visual Arts in Surrey
Ali Clarke, Visual Arts Officer, Surrey Arts
An overview of the work of Surrey Arts (Surrey County Council) and Arts Partnership Surrey including support for emerging artists, local opportunities and a selection of local arts projects.

4.30 CLOSE and drinks in a pub.
The Wheatsheaf, 19 West Street, www.thewheatsheaffarnham.co.uk

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 13, 2014 at 3:58pm

Fancy studying a Masters of Research in Crafts......
http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/mres-crafts/in-depth

The MRes Crafts course focuses on the written histories and critical analyses of craft organisations, artists, theories and craft exhibitions, as well as discussions from management, educational and theoretical perspectives. The key outcomes of the course are a substantial essay or an essay plus practice outcome in the case of makers.

The use of museum and private collections (including artist collections) as a focus for study will be a strong feature of MRes Crafts and you will have access to the Crafts Study Centre which is housed at the Farnham campus.

Your MRes project could be equivalent to the first year's study for a MPhil or PhD in Crafts areas. - See more at: http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/mres-crafts#sthash.CQeNPDw1.dpuf

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on March 13, 2014 at 11:37am

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Jeongsun Choi, High Blue, 2013. Represented at COLLECT by (KCDF)
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COLLECT 2013. Photo by Sophie Mutevelian
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You'll also find gallery and Project Space listings, giving you an insight into the high-profile artists you can expect to discover at the fair.

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Clare Twomey, Everyman's Dream, 2013. Photography Kim Yoonhae
Exhibition at COLLECT
Legacy: Two works on hope and memory

Two of the UK’s most significant makers, Julian Stair and Clare Twomey, are brought together at COLLECT for the first time in an exhibition on the second floor of the Saatchi Gallery to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.

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Jeongsun Choi, High Blue, 2013. Represented at COLLECT by (KCDF)
Tickets on sale for COLLECT 2014

See and buy the world’s finest contemporary craft at the 11th edition of COLLECT, returning to the Saatchi Gallery in London from 9-12 May 2014.

Buy your tickets online and save £5 on the door price.
Advance tickets are £12 (no booking fee applies).

COLLECT for two
Bring a friend and make the most of the exclusive online ticket offer COLLECT for two, which includes two tickets and a fair catalogue for £30.

Advance ticket prices end on 8 May 2014
Buy tickets
COLLECT 2013. Photo by Sophie Mutevelian
Planning your visit

Find all the information you need to plan your visit, including ticket prices, opening times, travel information and accessibility at www.collect2014.org.uk

You'll also find gallery and Project Space listings, giving you an insight into the high-profile artists you can expect to discover at the fair.

Group bookings
Email Emily to book in advance if you are bringing a group to COLLECT. Tickets for groups of 10 or more cost £12 per person, with the group leader receiving free entry and catalogue.
Clare Twomey, Everyman's Dream, 2013. Photography Kim Yoonhae
Exhibition at COLLECT
Legacy: Two works on hope and memory

Two of the UK’s most significant makers, Julian Stair and Clare Twomey, are brought together at COLLECT for the first time in an exhibition on the second floor of the Saatchi Gallery to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.

The exhibition is presented in partnership with Forty Hall & Estate, and is the latest Crafts Council Curate With Us partnership project.

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