Call for artists – Irwell Sculpture Trail, Bacup
Your Arts and BREAD art collective are working with Rossendale Borough Council to highlight sections of the Irwell Sculpture Trail in the Rossendale valley.
Each season we’re working at a different site along the trail and hope to work with different groups at each to create interesting and quirky additions. Before Christmas we worked with pupils at Thorn Primary School who made a fantastic swarm of eyes which are placed around The Sentinal.
Now we’re moving on to work at The Birds which are a series of metal gulls that fly up the valley towards Bacup from Stacksteads. It’s a great site – very prominent and steeply sloping. We’re getting in touch with Rossendale artists who are up for a bit of fun to make some guerrilla style interventions. Artists Becky Atherton (Your Arts) and David Boultbee ( BREAD) will lead the collaboration. Working together, the group will develop ideas for the site and then install them – the sky is, quite literally, the limit.
Artists should be over 18 and living or working in Rossendale. You don’t need to be a full time artist or have a specific practice or background. Sessions will be arranged around the group – we anticipate there being four or five – and, of course, you won’t be expected to come to them all. Materials will be funded and an ample supply of hot drinks will be provided!
Interested?
Contact David – [email protected] – 0774 884 7029 – www.breadartcollective.co.uk
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