Artist
6 days ago
Bedford Creative Arts (BCA) is looking for an experienced sculptural artist to deliver Community Co-Design “Mini-build” events and workshops.
BCA is using art to shape the identity of three locations along the riverside in Kempston, Bedford. These community workshops will work with participants of a variety of ages to co-design and build prototype “sculptural spaces”. These sculptural spaces will provide artwork/infrastructure for up to three new riverside community areas in Kempston. The aim is to build a circa 3-6 prototype models of sculptural structures for the residents of Kempston to consider having installed along the river between Kempston Mill and Queen’s Bridge.
The findings will be shared at a community-led symposium where the public will be invited to provide feedback on the proposed designs so that BCA can work towards funding and commissioning permanent versions these structures and designs in the short-medium term future.
We hope that through this commission residents will be able to explore which sculptural structures could be built along the river and to create prototype models of these sculptures to be used in further community consultation.
The artist will need to have significant experience in creating temporary artworks in the outdoors relating to the local environment, a passion for the river environment and community-engaged public art.
We envisage that there will be a minimum of 20 workshops/ interventions and that the programme of activity facilitated by the artist would include, but not exclusively entail:
- Maquette-building workshops where participants can learn basic sculptural terminology, contribute ideas for structures and be involved in co-designing proposals (there may be an opportunity to share their work at the symposium).
- Building temporary prototype sculptures (for outdoor or indoor display) will be built in varying sizes through these community workshops.
- Communities will demonstrate their learning and skills acquired through the project e.g. contributing to a project symposium event, learning about environmental policy and planning.
- Communities will become advocates for funding the capital builds (it’s our hope that we will use this stage of the project to raise funds to build permanent structures in the near future).
**Timeline**
20 days spread between March - July 2025
**Fee**
The fee is in the region of £5,000 (£250 a day for 20 days) for labour to cover planning and workshop delivery time as well as attendance at meetings and events.
There is a separate budget available for materials held by BCA of £2,500 (max).
Reasonable travel expenses will be provided and agreed in advance.
This is a freelance contract. The artist will be liable for their own equipment, tax, insurance and pension contribution. This is not an employment contract.
**Application Process**
- Their relevant experience.
- Examples of previous work or links to these online.
- How they will approach the brief (ideas do not need to be worked up in detail but we need to understand the artist’s approach to delivering the brief).
Interviews**: Week beginning 24th February**(contribution to travel expenses agreed in advance).
**Eligibility**
An Enhanced DBS check will be required for any unsupervised work with the community.
**Job Types**: Part-time, Freelance
Pay: £250.00 per day
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bedford MK41 7PH
Application deadline: 20/02/2025
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