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New Ashgate Gal l ery T rust Waggon YardFarnham GU9
7PSwww.newashgate.org.uk gal [email protected] 01252 713208Reg
is te red char i t y no . 274326
Call for MakersRising Stars 2014: touring exhibition and 3
applied arts commissions
Rising Stars is a platform to foster and champion students and
recent graduates from BA andMA applied arts programmes across the
UK. The programme will consist of three parts: thetouring Rising
Stars exhibition to enable new makers to access the market place;
professionaldevelopment including knowledge transfer and skills
exchange, a national symposium; and apublication to act as a
promotional tool for the selected makers. Rising Stars aims to
offer new
makers their first step into the market place, through a
curated, selling exhibition that tours toNew Ashgate Gallery,
Farnham, Milton Keynes Arts Centre, Milton Keynes and Smiths
Row,Bury St Edmunds, and a free programme of professional
development.
We are delighted present an award of 1,000 towards a winners
professional development,support from a-n, the Artists Information
Company, and further exhibition opportunities.
We also welcome proposals for three site-specific commissions in
each venue. The fee for thecommissions is 400 per commission
(all-inclusive). Please visit the venue before making
aproposal.
The project dates are:
Exhibition and professional development events at New Ashgate
Gallery, 8 March 19April 2014
Symposium at the University for the Creative Arts, 21 March 2014
Exhibition and professional development events at Milton Keynes
Arts Centre, 26 April
31 May 2014
In partnership wi th
Smiths RowThe Marke t Cross , Cornh i l l
Bury S t EdmundsSuf f o l k IP33 1BT
www.smithsrow.org enqu i r i es@sm i thsrow.org
01283 762081Reg is te red char i t y no : 810207
and
Mil ton Keynes Arts CentrePark lands , G rea t L in f o rdMi l t
on Keynes MK14 5DZ
www.mi l tonkeynesartscentre.co.uk in fo@mil
tonkeynesartscentre.co.uk
01908 608108Reg is te red char i t y no . 1007409
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Exhibition and professional development events at Smiths Row, 7
June 12 July 2014Submissions are invited from:
undergraduates postgraduates recent graduates who completed
their study in last 24 months.Apply by email:1. Application form2.
5 images of the proposed work(s) (JPEG, 1-2MB in size, including
full image captions
and a title of the artwork in a file name).3. CV (max. 2
pages)4. Statement about your work of no more than 250 words.The
deadline is Thursday 24 October 2013, 5pm. There is no fee for
applications. Email
to New Ashgate Gallery [email protected]
your name in thesubject field. We regret that we are unable to
accept late or incomplete applications. Forinformal enquiries email
us at: [email protected]
Please do not send longer statements, additional images or
website links unlessspecifically requested. Your application may be
disqualified if you do so. Successfulapplicants will be covering
their travel and delivery costs to Farnham and collection costsfrom
Bury St Edmunds and agree with the terms of display and sale. Your
work will beinsured during the displays.
Confirmed judges include: Lucy Day, the Day + Gluckman
curatorial partnership and a professional development
advisor at-an, the Artists Information Company
Rebecca Skeels, a designer-maker and a subject leader for the
Post Graduate Schoolof Crafts and Design, the University for the
Creative Arts.
VenuesRising Stars is managed by the New Ashgate Gallery in
partnership with Milton Keynes ArtsCentre and Smiths Row.
Originally established in the late 1950s, the New Ashgate
Gallery is located in aseventeenth century listed building in
Waggon Yard since the 1970s. During the years, thegallery has
administered the profits from craft and art sales to create prizes
andscholarships, and for the purchase of artworks for local and
national museums. It was oneof the first provincial galleries to
show artists with an international reputation as well assupporting
local talent. Today, the New Ashgate Gallery is a destination for
buying the bestof affordable contemporary craft by established and
emerging makers. The Gallery curatesan exciting programme of
changing exhibitions and has an affordable gift shop. As a not-
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for-profit charity, it also fosters emerging makers in
partnership with the University for theCreative Arts through
mentoring and touring exhibitions such as the Rising
Starscompetition. It also supports diverse community participation
through a programme ofgallery and outreach workshops.
Milton Keynes Arts Centre is an independent arts and education
charity established in1974. Located two miles from central Milton
Keynes, our site is set within the impressivegrounds of Great
Linford Manor beside the Grand Union Canal. It includes a gallery,
set ina 17th-century barn, studio space for six creative
practitioners housed in historicalmshouses, a school house,
creative work spaces located within two pavilions andspecialist
workshop facilities including ceramics, silversmithing and
woodwork. With a focuson craft, design and the visual arts Milton
Keynes Arts Centre provides a unique platformfor practitioners to
develop new ideas, presenting live opportunities to share
exemplarycraft, design and visual art practice, often in response
to our location. Our year roundprogramme offers exhibitions,
residencies, artist led workshops, professional development
events and artists studios, as well as a caf and retail
space.
Smiths Row, established in 1972 as Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery,
curates and presents anannual programme of exhibitions and events
which inspires new ways of thinking andnurtures creativity. Our
programme explores both contemporary art and craft through soloand
thematic shows featuring works predominately by emerging and
mid-career artists.Increasingly we work with artists to commission
and present new works that are inspired byour historic building or
relate to over-arching themes we are exploring. Smiths Rowsupports
artists and makers through professional development programmes and
on-goingone-to-one surgeries. We also develop the market for
contemporary art and craft through
our Craft Shop which showcases work by British makers, our
annual Christmas craftsexhibition, and through commissioning
artists limited editions and multiples.
Rising Stars 2014 is supported by Arts Council England.
Rising Stars 2014 works in partnership with a-n, the Artists
Information Company and theUniversity for the Creative Arts.
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Application formRising Stars 2014: touring exhibition and 3
applied arts commissions
Name of the applicant
Craft medium
Date of graduation
Postal address
Telephone
Website
Email
Is your work available from 8 March 12 July 2014?
Are you available to attend some of the professional development
events to be offered in threevenues?
Is your work available for sale? If so, please give an example
of your price range.
If work is sold during the tour, will you be able to provide a
replacement piece?
Would you like to be considered for a site-specified commission
in one of the three venues? Thiswork does not need to be for sale.
If so, please give details, including your technical
requirements,in 300 words:
Your statement in 250 words. Please do not include longer
statements.
Provide a sentence of information about each image submitted
with your application and full imagecaptions, including your name,
title of the work, medium, size, retail price and a name of
thephotographer, if relevant.
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