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Festival : Twelve years ago Appledore Arts initiated the UK’s first annual Visual Arts Festival which has subsequently influenced and inspired many other festivals nationwide. The four day Appledore Visual Arts Festival offers high quality and original programming in a beautiful and historic estuary setting. Our patron is Lord David Puttnam. With an audience of over 7,500, the Festival is recognized as a major high quality arts event with an established regional profile and a rapidly growing national profile.

Each year we facilitate the production and exhibition of work from nationally and internationally recognised artists including Richard Long and Peter Randall-Page. The Festival also showcases young emerging talent alongside a wealth of local visual arts practitioners. The high quality of our programming is reflected in funding support from Arts Council England, South West.

Our vision is to support, promote and advance the visual arts in the South West. Artists are heavily involved in the inception and development of programming. Our objective is to offer an innovative, exciting and diverse range of experiences and activities for all age groups including children and young people. The Festival runs for four days, in 2010 the dates are Thursday June 3rd to Sunday June 6th. It is held during summer half-term and attracts a wide range of visitors from the local region as well as visitors from all over the UK.

Theme : Our relationship with the sea has profoundly influenced our history, our identity and our character. There is no finer example of this relationship than North Devon’s beautiful and rugged coastline. Through an innovative programme of contemporary visual arts events, selected artists will be asked to respond to this unique environment.

“ From the broken, contorted rocks of Hartland to the vast sand-dunes of Braunton Burrows, and the towering cliffs of Exmoor, the North Devon coastline is breathtaking. Wild, windswept uplands and shattered cliffs pounded by the Atlantic waves contrast with sweeping bays filled with golden sand and massive, plunging cliffs clothed in a green carpet of dense woodland. ”
Along The Shore, Mike Towns

Theme: Coastlines

Deadline November 30th, 2009

Call for Artists : We are now inviting applications based on the theme of ‘Coastlines’ and we are interested in receiving proposals for any of the following categories :

1. Events
2. Workshops
3. Residencies
4. Schools Project *
5. Festival Photographer
6. Exhibitions and Artists Trail

Our standard fee for selected artists ranges between £150 - £200 per day. We pay expenses for materials and we are also able to contribute towards travel expenses. For those artists who require accommodation we aim to provide lodgings with local residents who are supporters of the Festival. As part of the selection process we will discuss each project and agree a budget for materials prior to contract approval.

* Please note that each year we aim to select a proposal for a Schools Arts Project. This project involves working with local primary schools prior to the Festival with the outcome of the work being incorporated into the Festival. If you are interested in making a proposal we recommend that you provide a quote for the complete project, the number of schools you envisage working with, the material costs and time involved. On previous projects we have worked with a variety of local primary schools ranging from 3 up to 10 schools.

If you are interested in applying, there is no application form we would however like to know how you learnt about our Call for Artists. Please submit proposals with art work as required, if you would like your art work returned please include an SAE. We prefer to receive applications in the mail. During December applications will be reviewed by a Selection Panel and all applicants will be informed of the outcome by mid January 2010.

Please send your full application to Fiona Fraser-Smith, Call for Artists, Appledore Arts, 3 Marine Parade, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1PJJ
by November 30th, 2009.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards, Fiona Fraser-Smith (Director)

M: 07900 212747, E: info@appledorearts.org


CALL FOR ARTISTS