News: 06 December 2005

Ten new awards announced for artists working on regeneration projects

The final round of awards have been made from PROJECT to support the involvement of artists in groundbreaking new projects throughout the UK. In its latest round PROJECT has awarded over £106,000, bringing the number of schemes supported to thirty and the total amount awarded to £320,000.

The latest round includes opportunities for artists to work on a broad range of regeneration schemes, from working on a major masterplanning scheme in Leith, near Edinburgh to an artist working with the Property Design Section of Derbyshire County Council.

During the two year pilot phase PROJECT has attracted enormous interest from around the UK. Whilst opportunities to apply to the scheme have now closed, Public Art South West will continue to manage and support all the awards made until March 2006. A formal evaluation of the scheme is currently underway which is due to be completed by February 2006. A publication is planned and will be available in June 2006. For details of the schemes supported visit www.project-awards.org.uk

Richard Simmons, Chief Executive of CABE commented:

'The debate surrounding the quality of our towns and cities is raging again following the publication of the new Urban Task Force report. Without a high quality built environment, we will not deliver the economic prosperity or quality of life to which we all aspire. The PROJECT initiative is one example of how we are working to change our national culture and attitudes to put design at the top of the agenda. There are some great regeneration projects in this round of awards, so let's hope that these will inspire others to work creatively with artists as part of their design teams.'

Colin Tweedy, Chief Executive of Arts & Business said:

'For almost thirty years, Arts and Business has worked to challenge any sterility and indifference found in business or in communities by encouraging organisations to engage with the arts. The arts should be at the heart of our national life and at the heart of our regeneration plans. There is still much to do, but PROJECT is a force for good and these awards will have a positive impact on the public realm across the country.'

Maggie Bolt, Director of Public Art South West commented:

'It has been a wonderful opportunity to work on a national scheme of such significance and the resulting legacy is of a range of groundbreaking and exciting projects and schemes around the country. I very much look forward to seeing the full outcomes of these schemes and the future development of this initiative.'

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Details of Awards

Plymouth City Council, Plymouth Waterfront, Team Building Award £10,000

A lead artist will join a new multi-disciplinary Project Team and develop a new planning framework to regenerate a ëtriangle of opportunity' along the central length of Plymouth Waterfront. The partners are Plymouth City Council, Sutton Harbour Company, Plymouth City Centre Company and other public and private sector interests including English Partnerships, the University of Plymouth, Government Office for the South West and the South West Regional Development Agency. The project aims to promote the arts and high quality design within the regeneration of Plymouth and enable the City Council's built environment professional team to further the development of the concept of sustainable communities in Plymouth.

Guildford Cathedral, Art and Sacred Places, Visionary Award £7,500

The project creates an opportunity for an artist to become involved at an appropriate stage in the design and development of a site of national significance. Guildford Cathedral is a major landmark but physically removed from the communities it aims to serve. The scope, range and ambition of the Cathedral's development plans are considerable. It seeks to bring the Cathedral closer to the community and to improve the setting and surroundings of the building. An important part of this is to change perceptions of the Cathedral, to become an important focus for the town. The aim is to introduce new buildings and uses where they are best suited, to conserve the key views and approaches and to create a distinct Cathedral Quarter. The Dean and Chapter with the Cathedral Estates Committee have appointed Terence O'Rourke Planning Consultants to help plan this major development.

South Acton Residents Action Group (SARAG), Creative Communities Award £11,000

The South Acton Urban Design Framework (UDF) outlines five phases of regeneration geared to ëre-knit' the South Acton Estate into the wider geography of Ealing Borough, a vision for which SARAG campaigned intensively. The UDF has been prepared by two teams of architects employed by Ealing Council. Meanwhile SARAG has sought to bring a community perspective to the process, working with a number of agencies. These include English Heritage, Glass House Trust & Architecture Foundation and the University of Westminster; all sharing SARAG's expectations towards the future design, spatial organisation and potential of the estate in social and cultural terms. An artist will join this partnership and work with SARAG and the Council's principal housing and regeneration contractors Wates and the Catalyst Housing Group.

Ashwell Property Group, cb1, Cambridge, Visionary Award £15,000

Ashwell Property Group PLC is leading the £750 million, twenty-four acre redevelopment of the area around Cambridge Station road area. cb1 is described as the ëlargest ever regeneration scheme to take place within Cambridge.' Designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, it will achieve a huge improvement in the quality of the area as a whole and of the public realm in particular, in order to provide a fitting gateway to the city. PROJECT will enable the appointment of a lead artist to become an active and creative part of the design team and promote an integral approach to high quality design across the development which comprises over a thousand homes, commercial space, health and leisure facilities, an hotel and conference centre, county archives and museum, restaurants, bars, a multi-storey car park, a new public square and park and a new transport interchange.

ISIS Waterside Regeneration, Warwick Bar, Birmingham , Visionary Award £10,000

A successful PROJECT application has been made by the Director of ISIS Waterside Regeneration in association with MADE for an artist to join the design team and develop an urban design scheme for the Warwick Bar area of Eastside in Birmingham. The design team will include an architect, ecologist and an artist and will progress an outline planning scheme to be registered for approval at the end of 2006. The project brings together a partnership of public private interests of British Waterways, AMEC Investments Ltd and Morley Fund Management. Full endorsement has been given to the scheme by the Arts Ambassador for Eastside Regeneration, a former urban designer with Birmingham City Council who promotes the arts at the heart of this regeneration scheme and the ability of both ISIS and MADE to achieve a viable scheme.

Derbyshire County Council, Property Design Practice, Visionary Award £15,000

This project promotes a unique, strategic development initiative from a county council in the East Midlands keen to place an artist within its Property Design Practice and influence a number of capital building projects in 2006/2007. Current projects include a Sure Start nursery, new primary and secondary schools, library refurbishment and new business centre. It is anticipated that the capital projects portfolio in 2006/07 will be circa £40 million and include at least one new primary school. By placing an artist within a multi-disciplinary team responsible for design procurement aims to give considerable scope to influence the content of development briefs, design quality and arts development, a strategic opportunity which is acknowledged by the Derbyshire Arts Officers Group.

North & West Belfast Health and Social Services Trust, Team Building Award £5,000

PROJECT will invest in a lead artist to join the design team established by the North and West Belfast Health and Social Services Trust to create two health and well being centres located in Shankill and Andersontown. Todds Architects are lead consultants for the Shankill centre; Penoyre and Prasad are lead consultants for the centre in Andersontown. The Trust recently adopted guidance on achieving best practice in the commissioning of artists. It employs an arts co-ordinator who will advise the selection of a lead artist and co-ordinate a series of workshops with the design team in order that the appointed artist has the widest possible creative scope. The co-ordinator's role will be to provide support to the appointed artist, act as their liaison and contact, organise and timetable a framework of discussions, design workshops and ëcreative visioning' with the design team(s) to ensure effective communication across two capital projects.

Edinburgh City Council, Edinburgh Waterfront, Visionary Award £15,000

PROJECT will enable some of Edinburgh's 'Design Initiative' aspirations for the City's waterfront to be achieved. Core to its ambition is to deliver true Place Making. PROJECT was used as the focus for discussions relating to the integration of the disparate masterplan areas into a recognisable whole.

PROJECT will allow for the appointment of an artist to collaborate with the partners who include the City of Edinburgh Council Design Initiative, Forth Ports, Second Site and Waterfront Edinburgh. The artist's brief will be to act as "curator" for the waterfront, to analyse sites and places across the development area, make connections, establish broad concepts and principles and determine how art is integral to place making. This will impact on the eventual physical form of the built environment and longer term involves a series of creative interventions by artists, designers, writers, performers and other creative professionals.

The artist will be supported by the City Design Initiative and RMJM Art commissioning and develop a five year strategy over the next twelve months

Winchburgh Future, West Lothian Council, Cala Homes, Visionary Award £15,000

The West Lothian Finalised Local Plan outlines the construction of 5000 new homes between Broxburn and Winchburgh by 2015 with related employment space, community facilities and transport connections. PROJECT will enable West Lothian Council in association with Cala Homes to appoint an artist to work from an early stage with the design and client teams to influence spatial planning, contribute to architectural concepts and the detail of individual buildings to meet community needs. Public art and arts development expertise within the Council will be complemented by Ginkgo Projects who will guide the process to ensure the role of the artist in the team is fully realised and adopted as integral to the planning process.

CBAT The Arts & Regeneration Agency, STAR Radio, Cardiff , Talking Artists Award (Jennie Savage) £3,000

The location for the overall project was a vacant shop within the STAR area of Cardiff working with the communities of Splott, Tremorfa, Adamstown and Roath in the eastern, former industrial edge of the city. Commissioned and facilitated by CBAT, during the summer 2005, the artist Jennie Savage created a series of radio programmes with local people which were broadcast on 87.7fm 22 ñ 29 October. PROJECT will enable Jennie Savage to write a series of essays for a publication which will contextualise key issues that have arisen during the STAR research and broadcast period to profile key outcomes of the project that refer to symptoms of a post-industrial urban community. Published by CBAT, the publication will include essays by contributing critics and will be available May 2006.

For further press information

Please contact Dominique Owen, CABE press office on 020 7960 2470 or [email protected] or Jonathan Tuchner at A&B on 020 7940 6412 or [email protected] or Maggie Bolt, PASW on 01392 229226 or [email protected]

Notes for Editors

PROJECT is managed by Public Art South West and funded by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and Arts & Business (A&B). Between June 2004 and March 2006, it has awarded approximately £300,000 to schemes, which engage artists in a range of projects that will have a positive impact on the places in which we live. The scheme involves the arts, culture, design, education, environment, healthcare, housing and regeneration sectors in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It supports artists' imaginative and creative contributions to the early stages of master planning, design frameworks and new building initiatives.

CABE is the government's expert advisor on architecture, urban design and public space. As a public body, we encourage policymakers to create places that work for people. We help local planners apply national design policy and advise developers and architects, persuading them to put people's needs first. We show public sector clients how to commission buildings that meet the needs of their users. And we seek to inspire the public to demand more from their buildings and spaces. Advising, influencing and inspiring, we work to create well-designed, welcoming places. www.cabe.org.uk

Arts & Business is the world's most successful & widespread creative network. It helps business people support the arts & the arts inspire business people because good business & great art together create a richer society. Arts & Business New Partners helps businesses try something new with the arts. Arts & Business invests across the UK in partnerships that deepen the relationship between arts and business and encourage new ways for the sectors to work together. www.AandB.org.uk

Public Art South West (PASW) is recognised as one of the leading public art development agencies in the UK. Primarily serving the south west of England, its work extends beyond geographical boundaries in terms of critical thinking and application of artists' skills and creativity it promotes. It works with national and regional public and private sector organisations across Britain, and actively networks with a range of professions within public art, design and architecture.

Further information is available from:

PROJECT - engaging artists in the built environment
Public Art South West
PO Box 189
Exeter EX4 3XL

Tel: 01392 229266
Fax: 01392 229229
e-mail: [email protected]
website: www.project-awards.org.uk


Skip to content Back to Public Art Online main site Home The Scheme Awards Evaluation News Contact Download Logo Using the Site Copyright Privacy	News: 06 December 2005 Ten new awards announced for artists working on regeneration projects The final round of awards have been made from PROJECT to support the involvement of artists in groundbreaking new projects throughout the UK. In its latest round PROJECT has awarded over £106,000, bringing the number of schemes supported to thirty and the total amount awarded to £320,000. The latest round includes opportunities for artists to work on a broad range of regeneration schemes, from working on a major masterplanning scheme in Leith, near Edinburgh to an artist working with the Property Design Section of Derbyshire County Council. During the two year pilot phase PROJECT has attracted enormous interest from around the UK. Whilst opportunities to apply to the scheme have now closed, Public Art South West will continue to manage and support all the awards made until March 2006. A formal evaluation of the scheme is currently underway which is due to be completed by February 2006. A publication is planned and will be available in June 2006. For details of the schemes supported visit www.project-awards.org.uk Richard Simmons, Chief Executive of CABE commented: 'The debate surrounding the quality of our towns and cities is raging again following the publication of the new Urban Task Force report. Without a high quality built environment, we will not deliver the economic prosperity or quality of life to which we all aspire. The PROJECT initiative is one example of how we are working to change our national culture and attitudes to put design at the top of the agenda. There are some great regeneration projects in this round of awards, so let's hope that these will inspire others to work creatively with artists as part of their design teams.' Colin Tweedy, Chief Executive of Arts & Business said: 'For almost thirty years, Arts and Business has worked to challenge any sterility and indifference found in business or in communities by encouraging organisations to engage with the arts. The arts should be at the heart of our national life and at the heart of our regeneration plans. There is still much to do, but PROJECT is a force for good and these awards will have a positive impact on the public realm across the country.' Maggie Bolt, Director of Public Art South West commented: 'It has been a wonderful opportunity to work on a national scheme of such significance and the resulting legacy is of a range of groundbreaking and exciting projects and schemes around the country. I very much look forward to seeing the full outcomes of these schemes and the future development of this initiative.' back to topDetails of Awards Details of Awards Plymouth City Council, Plymouth Waterfront, Team Building Award £10,000 A lead artist will join a new multi-disciplinary Project Team and develop a new planning framework to regenerate a ëtriangle of opportunity' along the central length of Plymouth Waterfront. The partners are Plymouth City Council, Sutton Harbour Company, Plymouth City Centre Company and other public and private sector interests including English Partnerships, the University of Plymouth, Government Office for the South West and the South West Regional Development Agency. The project aims to promote the arts and high quality design within the regeneration of Plymouth and enable the City Council's built environment professional team to further the development of the concept of sustainable communities in Plymouth. Guildford Cathedral, Art and Sacred Places, Visionary Award £7,500 The project creates an opportunity for an artist to become involved at an appropriate stage in the design and development of a site of national significance. Guildford Cathedral is a major landmark but physically removed from the communities it aims to serve. The scope, range and ambition of the Cathedral's development plans are considerable. It seeks to bring the Cathedral closer to the community and to improve the setting and surroundings of the building. An important part of this is to change perceptions of the Cathedral, to become an important focus for the town. The aim is to introduce new buildings and uses where they are best suited, to conserve the key views and approaches and to create a distinct Cathedral Quarter. The Dean and Chapter with the Cathedral Estates Committee have appointed Terence O'Rourke Planning Consultants to help plan this major development. South Acton Residents Action Group (SARAG), Creative Communities Award £11,000 The South Acton Urban Design Framework (UDF) outlines five phases of regeneration geared to ëre-knit' the South Acton Estate into the wider geography of Ealing Borough, a vision for which SARAG campaigned intensively. The UDF has been prepared by two teams of architects employed by Ealing Council. Meanwhile SARAG has sought to bring a community perspective to the process, working with a number of agencies. These include English Heritage, Glass House Trust & Architecture Foundation and the University of Westminster; all sharing SARAG's expectations towards the future design, spatial organisation and potential of the estate in social and cultural terms. An artist will join this partnership and work with SARAG and the Council's principal housing and regeneration contractors Wates and the Catalyst Housing Group. back to top Ashwell Property Group, cb1, Cambridge, Visionary Award £15,000 Ashwell Property Group PLC is leading the £750 million, twenty-four acre redevelopment of the area around Cambridge Station road area. cb1 is described as the ëlargest ever regeneration scheme to take place within Cambridge.' Designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, it will achieve a huge improvement in the quality of the area as a whole and of the public realm in particular, in order to provide a fitting gateway to the city. PROJECT will enable the appointment of a lead artist to become an active and creative part of the design team and promote an integral approach to high quality design across the development which comprises over a thousand homes, commercial space, health and leisure facilities, an hotel and conference centre, county archives and museum, restaurants, bars, a multi-storey car park, a new public square and park and a new transport interchange. ISIS Waterside Regeneration, Warwick Bar, Birmingham , Visionary Award £10,000 A successful PROJECT application has been made by the Director of ISIS Waterside Regeneration in association with MADE for an artist to join the design team and develop an urban design scheme for the Warwick Bar area of Eastside in Birmingham. The design team will include an architect, ecologist and an artist and will progress an outline planning scheme to be registered for approval at the end of 2006. The project brings together a partnership of public private interests of British Waterways, AMEC Investments Ltd and Morley Fund Management. Full endorsement has been given to the scheme by the Arts Ambassador for Eastside Regeneration, a former urban designer with Birmingham City Council who promotes the arts at the heart of this regeneration scheme and the ability of both ISIS and MADE to achieve a viable scheme. Derbyshire County Council, Property Design Practice, Visionary Award £15,000 This project promotes a unique, strategic development initiative from a county council in the East Midlands keen to place an artist within its Property Design Practice and influence a number of capital building projects in 2006/2007. Current projects include a Sure Start nursery, new primary and secondary schools, library refurbishment and new business centre. It is anticipated that the capital projects portfolio in 2006/07 will be circa £40 million and include at least one new primary school. By placing an artist within a multi-disciplinary team responsible for design procurement aims to give considerable scope to influence the content of development briefs, design quality and arts development, a strategic opportunity which is acknowledged by the Derbyshire Arts Officers Group. North & West Belfast Health and Social Services Trust, Team Building Award £5,000 PROJECT will invest in a lead artist to join the design team established by the North and West Belfast Health and Social Services Trust to create two health and well being centres located in Shankill and Andersontown. Todds Architects are lead consultants for the Shankill centre; Penoyre and Prasad are lead consultants for the centre in Andersontown. The Trust recently adopted guidance on achieving best practice in the commissioning of artists. It employs an arts co-ordinator who will advise the selection of a lead artist and co-ordinate a series of workshops with the design team in order that the appointed artist has the widest possible creative scope. The co-ordinator's role will be to provide support to the appointed artist, act as their liaison and contact, organise and timetable a framework of discussions, design workshops and ëcreative visioning' with the design team(s) to ensure effective communication across two capital projects. back to top Edinburgh City Council, Edinburgh Waterfront, Visionary Award £15,000 PROJECT will enable some of Edinburgh's 'Design Initiative' aspirations for the City's waterfront to be achieved. Core to its ambition is to deliver true Place Making. PROJECT was used as the focus for discussions relating to the integration of the disparate masterplan areas into a recognisable whole. PROJECT will allow for the appointment of an artist to collaborate with the partners who include the City of Edinburgh Council Design Initiative, Forth Ports, Second Site and Waterfront Edinburgh. The artist's brief will be to act as "curator" for the waterfront, to analyse sites and places across the development area, make connections, establish broad concepts and principles and determine how art is integral to place making. This will impact on the eventual physical form of the built environment and longer term involves a series of creative interventions by artists, designers, writers, performers and other creative professionals. The artist will be supported by the City Design Initiative and RMJM Art commissioning and develop a five year strategy over the next twelve months Winchburgh Future, West Lothian Council, Cala Homes, Visionary Award £15,000 The West Lothian Finalised Local Plan outlines the construction of 5000 new homes between Broxburn and Winchburgh by 2015 with related employment space, community facilities and transport connections. PROJECT will enable West Lothian Council in association with Cala Homes to appoint an artist to work from an early stage with the design and client teams to influence spatial planning, contribute to architectural concepts and the detail of individual buildings to meet community needs. Public art and arts development expertise within the Council will be complemented by Ginkgo Projects who will guide the process to ensure the role of the artist in the team is fully realised and adopted as integral to the planning process. CBAT The Arts & Regeneration Agency, STAR Radio, Cardiff , Talking Artists Award (Jennie Savage) £3,000 The location for the overall project was a vacant shop within the STAR area of Cardiff working with the communities of Splott, Tremorfa, Adamstown and Roath in the eastern, former industrial edge of the city. Commissioned and facilitated by CBAT, during the summer 2005, the artist Jennie Savage created a series of radio programmes with local people which were broadcast on 87.7fm 22 ñ 29 October. PROJECT will enable Jennie Savage to write a series of essays for a publication which will contextualise key issues that have arisen during the STAR research and broadcast period to profile key outcomes of the project that refer to symptoms of a post-industrial urban community. Published by CBAT, the publication will include essays by contributing critics and will be available May 2006. For further press information Please contact Dominique Owen, CABE press office on 020 7960 2470 or [email protected] or Jonathan Tuchner at A&B on 020 7940 6412 or [email protected] or Maggie Bolt, PASW on 01392 229226 or [email protected] back to top Notes for Editors PROJECT is managed by Public Art South West and funded by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and Arts & Business (A&B). Between June 2004 and March 2006, it has awarded approximately £300,000 to schemes, which engage artists in a range of projects that will have a positive impact on the places in which we live. The scheme involves the arts, culture, design, education, environment, healthcare, housing and regeneration sectors in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It supports artists' imaginative and creative contributions to the early stages of master planning, design frameworks and new building initiatives. CABE is the government's expert advisor on architecture, urban design and public space. As a public body, we encourage policymakers to create places that work for people. We help local planners apply national design policy and advise developers and architects, persuading them to put people's needs first. We show public sector clients how to commission buildings that meet the needs of their users. And we seek to inspire the public to demand more from their buildings and spaces. Advising, influencing and inspiring, we work to create well-designed, welcoming places. www.cabe.org.uk Arts & Business is the world's most successful & widespread creative network. It helps business people support the arts & the arts inspire business people because good business & great art together create a richer society. Arts & Business New Partners helps businesses try something new with the arts. Arts & Business invests across the UK in partnerships that deepen the relationship between arts and business and encourage new ways for the sectors to work together. www.AandB.org.uk Public Art South West (PASW) is recognised as one of the leading public art development agencies in the UK. Primarily serving the south west of England, its work extends beyond geographical boundaries in terms of critical thinking and application of artists' skills and creativity it promotes. It works with national and regional public and private sector organisations across Britain, and actively networks with a range of professions within public art, design and architecture. back to top Further information is available from: PROJECT - engaging artists in the built environment Public Art South West PO Box 189 Exeter EX4 3XL Tel: 01392 229266 Fax: 01392 229229 e-mail: [email protected] website: www.project-awards.org.uk back to top