Nigel Hinds, Creative Producer of the Cultural Olympiad at London 2012 described Rachel Gadsden’s extraordinary body of work as ‘a revelation’ at its opening last Friday 22nd June in Cambridge. The Unlimited Global Alchemy premiere is one of the first of many events in the Festival 2012 calendar that will showcase our 12 artists on [...]
As Jonzi D from Breaking Convention rightly put it at the breakfast launch this morning, The Space is ‘a good way to not pay for some brilliant art.’ Being a ‘curator’ with Push Me alongside Jo Verrent with Watershed is a fine thing – bar the high speed plate of croissants that made alien contact [...]
When Ruth Mackenzie, Director, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, announced the final commissions in the Unlimited programme she said: ‘Unlimited is about commissioning world-class artists to create brilliant work which will change perceptions of the work of disabled and deaf artists.’ And she was absolutely right. Unlimited is quite simply the largest commissioning fund for disabled [...]
I must stop saying we are putting artists into space – that simply isn’t true. We are putting them into The Space, which is a whole different thing. But what is The Space? If you go to Arts Council England’s site, this is their definition: …an experimental digital arts media service and commissioning programme that [...]
When you take part in an art project, you very rarely get to see behind the scenes – especially at the beginning. Since this whole project (and the other commissions in The Space) are a bit of an experiment, we thought it might be fun to share the application detail with you – you could [...]
There was a new opportunity advertised far and wide in the land. And there were two people – lets call them Jo and Sarah – who had an idea for a project that just seemed to fit. But the project was far to big for them to do on their own though. They needed other [...]