Generation ART: Young Artists on Tour is an exhibition of children and young people’s artwork aged 5 – 18, with an associated learning programme supported by the Arts Council England’s Strategic Touring programme and will tour to Quay Arts, Isle of Wight and will be displayed in The West Gallery from 19th March to 7th May 2016.
Generation ART opened at Turner Contemporary, Margate in summer 2015, and will be showing in New Walk Museum and Art Gallery and Soft Touch Arts, Leicester from 16th January to 6th March 2016 before heading to Quay Arts.
The aim of Generation ART is for children and young people to be involved in a high quality exhibition at every stage, as curators, artists, audiences and champions. By profiling high quality artwork by children and young people, Generation ART strives to raise the aspirations of schools, teachers, children and young people, and inspire them to create excellent artwork.
Artist Commission:
Quay Arts are seeking an artist (or artists) to create a piece of work in response to the Generation ART: Young Artists on Tour, to be displayed in Quay Arts’ Curve Gallery alongside the main Generation ART exhibition.
Application deadline: Midnight, Friday 29th January 2016.
The commissioned artist will be a practicing visual artist with an interest in children’s and young people’s creativity and access to the arts. The commission will need to address the following brief:
- be created as a response to the Generation ART: Young Artists on Tour exhibition or the concept behind the exhibition tour.
- celebrate and inspire further children and young people to make their own art work.
- must be a physical work i.e. non digital.
- allow children and young people to interact with the final work – although this is not essential.
- artist fee for the commission is £2,000.
To apply:
To apply is very simple ‐ artists are required to submit a short proposal about their work, use of materials and initial ideas for realising the commission (500 words max) and CV to [email protected] along with links to a few examples of their work as appropriate.
Application deadline: Midnight, Fri 29 Jan 2016. Outcome of applications: Fri 5 Feb 2016.
For further information and to download the artist brief pop over to the Quay Arts Website.
Image: ‘Surfboard’, mixed media by Megan Smith from the Isle of Wight, a part of Generation ART: Young Artists on Tour exhibition.
