Artist Opportunity – Made in Roath 2013

Background

Made in Roath is an artist-led event, now in its 5th year, which aims to take art out of the gallery and into the wider community, allowing a larger and broader audience to access the wealth of creative talent in our neighbourhood. It showcases the work of emerging and established artists, makers, musicians, writers and performers, who use the whole of Roath as the venue, including domestic, commercial, public and overlooked or disused spaces.

Made in Roath offers residents and visitors an opportunity to engage in the arts through a dynamic programme and events, including an open exhibition, open houses, open studios, film, poetry and literature, music, visual arts, outreach, education, workshops and out-of-Roath events.

This year’s Made in Roath Festival will run from 17^th – 24^th October 2013.

Project

We are looking for expressions of interest from artists who would like to be part of Made in Roath’s visual art 2013 programme. The potential manifestations of artwork are wide ranging, and could include performance, sound, installation, happenings, movement/dance, events, sculptural, public intervention, video, spoken and written work, light works, photography and 2D.

Location

Made in Roath will assist in securing suitable spaces and places throughout Roath for the successful projects to take place. Suitable venues include empty shops, cafés, churches and spaces of worship, on the streets, in windows and on noticeboards, online/digital and interactive, in community halls, the park, pubs, at the Saturday farmers market etc. If you have a location or type of location in mind for your project please state this in your application.

Artists / Themes

Artists working in any media are able to apply. There are six opportunities available, and artists will be appointed based on their proposal and quality of previous work as well as with a view to appointing a range of projects from a variety disciplines. We encourage applications from artists at any stage of their career.

Timescale

Deadline for applications: Monday 19^th August, 5pm

Selection and artist appointment: by Monday 26^th August

Project preparation, with support from Made in Roath: 27^th August to 16^th October

Festival dates: 17^th – 24^th October (projects do not have to run for the whole period of festival, it may be for a day, an hour or other any other set period).

Budget

A materials budget of £300 is available for each project.

How to apply

To apply for this opportunity, please submit a letter stating your interest in Made in Roath and an outline project proposal. This does not need to be complete or worked up, but a starting point, or direction you would like to take. It may be you have a project already in mind, if so please give as much information as you have.

Please support this, as appropriate, with images and information of your practice and previous work. This can be in the form of a PowerPoint slideshow or digital images in jpeg or PDF format (maximum 10 images) or digital video/sound clips (up to 5 minutes long, links to You Tube or Sound Cloud are preferable). Images and clips should be numbered and accompanied by a corresponding list that includes title, date, dimensions, location and media as appropriate. Please also submit a current CV.

Applications should be sent to madeinroath@gmail.com, files and attachments no larger than 5MB in total.

Deadline: Monday August 19th, 5pm.