Applications are being sought from artists / makers interested in becoming Artist in Residence at Kelmscott Manor.
The residency is being funded by our Society with the generous help of Arts Council England, Fellow Geoffrey Bond, NADFAS, The Radcliffe Trust and The Oxford Research Centre in Humanities (TORCH), University of Oxford. The residency will last for seven months, from April to October 2014. Sarah Parker, Kelmscott Manor’s Property Manager, said ‘It will provide visitors with compelling experiences, including targeted groups, and a range of creative and cultural opportunities to encourage people to engage further with the Manor and celebrate Morris’s important legacy.’
The brief for the residency says that: ‘Morris once described Kelmscott Manor’s beauty and atmosphere as very stimulating to the imagination. We are seeking an artist who will be as inspired by it as William Morris was nearly 150 years ago’. Applicants must also have excellent communication skills and enjoy working with people, because, as well as working at the Manor to create new work, he or she will be asked to operate an ‘Open Studio’ for visitors for a total of twenty-eight days when the property is open to visitors, and give public lectures. Two pieces of work are to be donated to the Society, one to join the Manor’s permanent collections, the other to be auctioned for fundraising purposes.
In return, the appointed artist will have the opportunity to develop his or her practice, reach an international audience and generate income through the sale of work in the Manor shop and online. Kelmscott Manor will put on a display of work created during the residency and the artist will be offered the opportunity of creating bespoke products for sale on a commission basis in the Kelmscott Manor shop. The artist will be paid a fee of £8,400 (including travel expenses), and a further £5,000 is available to support the costs of studio and display set-up.
Applications in the form of a one-page proposal, a one-page curriculum vitae and up to six images of recent work are required by 24 February 2014. Further details can be downloaded using here: LINK
Oxford Mail article: LINK
