Artist Residency – Newcastle Common 1 month
Before we open our first shop, we’ll be doing some admin, then redecorating and installing our shop kit. We want the fact that we’re coming to be visible, to build excitement ahead of opening up.
The Brief
We want to appoint an artist, writer, or maker who likes talking to people, finding stories, and exploring, to make work with and about shops in Newcastle-under-Lyme ahead of our first shop occupation. This is a short, fast residency in the town centre, and we’re aware of the limitations of this way of working.
You can make work in any way, that will let people know we’re coming. It could explore the past, real or imagined, or the future. We’d love it if you made something to give to town centre shops, or that happened in their spaces, or if you included the voices of shopkeepers in what you make. Whatever you make, we’ll need a digital record to share on our social media channels and to be the first object in our empty shop project archive. You’ll own whatever work you make, and we’ll have the rights to use images or recordings of it for four years and for a document of it to remain in our archives.
We’re open to this being research and development for a future project you’re planning, and will offer you some mentoring and support if you want to develop a funding bid after the residency.
These will sit alongside our other projects in development for the same period in Newcastle-under-Lyme which are a Town Centre Map by Chloe Breeze Illustration; Familiar Faces by Adina Lawrence in partnership with GRAIN; and Every Other Seat with Dust Rising CIC.
All Appetite’s work for the town centre is in partnership with Newcastle Business Improvement District. We also work closely with our partners and supporters with a key interest in the town centre, including Newcastle Borough Council.
Submissions
We want to make it really easy for you to make a submission. We want you to say in no more than one side of A4 what you’d like to do. Tell us about a couple of things you’ve done before, and a few sentences about you.
We have budgeted for the residency to take place over four weeks and for approx. 2 days per week.
If you have any questions about the residency contact Dan: artistsmakers@googlemail.com
Send your submission to: askus@appetitestoke.co.uk [marked: Newcastle Common Residency 1]
Key Dates
Submissions by Monday 11 January 2021, at noon
Zoom interviews 14-15 January 2021
Appointment 19 January 2021
Final work presented 12 February 2021
Wrap up Zoom 16 February 2021
Fee
Artist Fee: £1,600 (70% on commencement, 30% on completion)
Production budget: £300, to cover materials, travel, etc
