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As part of our Landscape Restoration Project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund Compton
Verney Art Gallery and Park seeks to commission an eye-catching work in its landscape for
spring 2017.
Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park is an award winning art gallery in Warwickshire,
based in a Grade I-listed Georgian mansion with a modern extension of 2004 and set in 120
acres of Grade II*-listed parkland designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. We house six
permanent collections, including one of Europe's most important collections of Chinese
bronzes and the UK's largest collection of British Folk Art. We are an accredited museum, a
registered charity, and the Chinese collection is nationally designated.
Our mission is to share our passion for art and heritage with as many people as possible. We
pride ourselves on our varied exhibition and learning programmes, which in 2014 attracted
over 60,000, plus 5,000 school children and their teachers. Our vision is, simply, to bring
art of the highest quality and of international standing to a regional audience in the
Midlands, for whom we are 'the national gallery on the doorstep', and to weave our art
exhibitions - together with our grounds displays, our associated learning and public
programmes, and our historic site - into a genuinely unique visitor experience that
entertains, informs, surprises and challenges.
Since opening in 2004, Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park has established a reputation
for regional and national excellence. As The Guardian observed in 2011: Compton Verney
continues to come up with exhibitions that are so inventively curated that they reveal fresh
angles on otherwise familiar subjects. In recent years, Compton Verney Art Gallery and
Park has also been a pioneer in creating collaborations with major museums and galleries
across the UK. We have not only forged a national network of regional museum exhibition
partners, but have also established new ways of working with government-funded
nationals such as Tate and the British Museum to ensure that both our rural and urban
regional audiences dont have to go to London to see great art.
Our exhibitions are nationally and internationally reputed and range from historic shows
such as Canaletto, Gainsborough or British Folk Art, to more contemporary shows on the
Arts and Crafts House or our current exhibition Periodic Tales, which features work by Tim
Etchells, Antony Gormley, Heatherwick Studio, David Nash, Cornelia Parker, Marc Quinn
and Lucy Skaer, amongst others.
We have previously programmed work in the landscape, including artwork by Anya
Gallaccio, Simon Patterson, Jem Finer, Marcia Farquhar, Laura Ellen Bacon and Hilary Jack. In
addition as part of our 2014 exhibition we sited nine Henry Moore and Auguste Rodin
works in the landscape, and in 2015 we worked with contemporary garden designer Dan
Pearson to create an arts and crafts inspired William Morris meadow on our West Lawn. In
2015 we have achieved a record year of over 70,000 visitors.
See: www.comptonverney.org.uk
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The Commission
We are seeking proposals from artists and/or designers to create a new work in the
landscape at Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park. This is an opportunity to develop a new
work, which is significant, high profile and impactful. We are interested in a piece that may
be an eye-catcher (a piece that will attract attention), which is participatory, surprising or
inventive and which responds to the history/heritage of the landscape or even using the
lake. We hope it to be imaginative, high-impact, and a must-see destination piece.
Through this commission we also hope to deepen historic understanding and enjoyment of
Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park and to prompt enquiry and new ways of looking at
the site, via a 21st century response to its history, building upon its unique architectural, art
and design led identity.
Aims:
To attract more people to site and help drive ambitious visitor targets.
o To engage our existing audiences (categorised as follows: Commuterland
Culturebuffs, Dormitory Dependables, Home and Heritage, Metroculturals
and Experience Seekers)
o Engage new audiences to visit Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park
(Trips and Treat category)
o For more information about these defined categories please visit:
https://www.theaudienceagency.org/audience-spectrum
To increase awareness of Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park.
To make a lasting impression on long after visitors have gone (art has the power
to make a lasting impact on the world and our society).
To increase the reach of Compton Verney Art Gallery and Parks distinctive/
innovative programme.
Stimulate debate about contemporary public art in a historic rural environment.
To respond sensitively and imaginatively to Compton Verney Art Gallery and
Parks site/historic setting.
Notes:
The work will be insured by Compton Verney House Trust during installation on
site and whilst on display, subject to an agreed maximum value.
The artist will need to have their own public liability insurance.
The Budget
Artists fee
Production and installation costs
Transport/delivery of work
Expenses
To apply
Please submit an Expression of Interest:
A very short proposal outlining your ideas for a new work/s, your interest in
Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, and how you meet the brief above.
A CV and artist statement
Up to 6 images/details of previous work
penelope.sexton@comptonverney.org.uk
Penelope Sexton, Curator, Compton Verney, Compton
Verney House Trust, Warwickshire, CV35 9HZ
N.B. If you would like to discuss the project before submission or have any queries please do not
hesitate to contact Penelope Sexton on 01926 645540 or
penelope.sexton@comptonverney.org.uk
Draft schedule
Brief history of Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park
Plan of Compton Verneys site
Images of site
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Draft timetable:
Announcement of shortlist:
Shortlist proposal submission deadline:
Shortlist interviews:
Commissioner selected:
February 2017
18 March 2017
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