Call for Artists working in the Public Realm / Public Artists

Project Dandelion is the BSF Public Art programme for the City of Wolverhampton. Dandelion will create opportunities and exposure for the best of contemporary visual and performance artists through a highly visible and high profile public art project in Wolverhampton.
Opportunities will include atrium pieces, event-led activity, exhibitions, indoor and outdoor commissions, small and large scale. This is a dynamic and ambitious programme of Public Art in schools that will work with and promote artists and art of the highest quality. As well as being commissioned to design, create and install the artwork varying degrees of consultation and participation will be required. This will be designed in collaboration with each individual artist and will be tailored to be project and commission specific.

We are building a stable/pool of artists who work principally within the field of Public Art. We are creating opportunities for artists that work in photography, film, video, painting, sculpture, glass, metal, wood and other media, based in the UK. Opportunities will also be developed for performing artists to include live art, theatre, music and literature, although these will be fewer.
Selection to the stable/pool is no guarantee of being commissioned. The opportunity is time limited as the stable/pool will be operational until summer 2012, at which point we will wish to refresh the submissions.

If you are successful we will notify you by email. Unfortunately, we will not be unable to contact artists who are unsuccessful.

Project Dandelion is working with 16,000 pupils, across 23 secondary schools over four phases over 4 years as part of Building Schools for the Future in Wolverhampton. Our budget is being provided by Carillion as a per cent for art scheme and the schools, Wolverhampton City Council will be the owners the work at the end of the project.

If you are a professional artist based in the UK please send the following information on a CD Rom (please no email submissions) in order to be considered:

1. Artists Statement no more than 500 words (hard copy and on CD)
2. CV, that includes education, track record, commission and exhibition history (hard copy and on CD)
3. 15 images of your work drawn from a maximum of 5 projects/commissions (sent as 10” X 8” X 300 DPI, JPEG files)
4. Web site address and complete contact information (hard copy and on CD)
5. Indication of commission fees/prices (hard copy and on CD)

Deadline WEDNESDAY 8TH DECEMBER 2010.

Please send to Nicola Shipley, 302 The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Digbeth, Birmingham B9 4AA