Wed, 29 Jan 2025 published - Wed, 29 Jan 2025
Job Summary
We are inviting submissions from artists or collectives to propose a series of artworks for an exhibition in Autumn 2025. The works will form a creative response to a project exploring the role of storytelling, folklore and craft in understanding Polish heritage in the UK.
Job Description
Context
CPP Hounslow aims to increase engagement with arts and culture across the borough of Hounslow. We have a particular focus on increasing engagement amongst Hounslow's significant Polish communities, as a group identified as having less engagement with our arts and culture programme. We are aiming to amplify this work by connecting with the UK-Poland Season, being led by the British Council & Adam Mickiewicz Institute, from March- November 2025 to raise the profile of the Polish community in Hounslow.
The theme:
This project will explore how storytelling, folklore and traditional crafts provide a way for Polish communities in the UK to explore their heritage; connect to Poland; each other and the potential for developing new stories, folklore and crafts.
We are open to a wide range of approaches to this broad theme and artists from any discipline can apply. The works can be made in any medium but will be exhibited in locations of high footfall. This commission will form part of a wider project exploring these themes.
Proposals could explore the below ideas:
1. The role of storytelling, folklore and/or traditional crafts in connecting to Poland and/or Polish heritage
2. Using storytelling, folklore and/or craft making as a way to connect with Poland or engage with Polish history
3. Exploring Polish culture and what connects people of Polish Heritage, living in the UK, with that culture
4. What role do storytelling, folklore and/or crafts have in understanding Polish identity?
5. Have new stories, folklores or crafts emerged amongst Polish communities living in the UK, and if not, could they?
6. What would contemporary approaches to storytelling, folklore and/or craft look like?
Job Requirements
Proposed projects should:
1. Be of the highest artistic quality, innovative and well-thought through.
2. Adhere to the exhibition specification as closely as possible.
3. Respond to the community engagement workshops with the Polish community (this will be facilitated by the project manager), and ensure that the community is meaningfully included in the artistic and curatorial process.
Who we are looking for:
1. Practicing artists or designers with experience of delivering high quality visual arts projects
2. An artist of Polish heritage who can speak fluent Polish and English
3. The selected artist will ensure their process is open and collaborative, working with the Project Manager, Polish community leaders and local craft artists to inform the development of their work
4. Whilst this commission may suit craft makers, we encourage artists from any discipline to apply and propose how they would respond to the commission brief
5. The selected artist will hold Public Liability Insurance
Job Responsibilities
We are looking for an artist who can:
1. Produce six artworks in response to the theme outlined in this brief
2. Work collaboratively with the Project Manager and wider community; attending, responding to and engaging with a series of community engagement activities that will accompany form part of the wider project
To apply, please send to lily@watermans.org.uk:
1. Your contact details
2. A short project proposal, outlining how you would approach the commission and your past experience
3. A PDF of images of examples of your work, these may deal with similar themes and way of working or examples of works shown in non-typical art spaces
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