It’s now a year since I filled in the application for ACE funding. We’ve reached the final stage of the criteria set out and followed it almost to the letter. Because of my own exhibitions and other commitment, I am a bit late on reporting the last exhibition – INHOSPITABLE 1.1, now showing at the ESA project space, 64 Wellington Street, Leeds.
The exhibitions have been gathering more artists as they have rolled along. From the initial 19 artists that exhibited in Stockholm, we have now included Swedish group ArtMobile ( fellow exhibitors at SUPERMARKET, Stockholm ) and several artists from DWF.
The exhibitions – two in Liverpool ( at Bridewell studios and Gallery and Unit 8 Albert Dock) and two in Leeds ( Wellington St and Basement Arts Project) have all included talks and other events which have drawn in a wide and diverse audience.
It’s difficult to give exact figures on the actual audience reached, but by linking our activities with the Liverpool Biennial, we were able to attain the best possible results.
Several of the artists began blogs ( some on a-n ) about their experiences, so this added to the audience figures.
Information about the group appeared in the SUPERMARKET catalogue and on their website from February 2012 then onto the Liverpool Independents Biennial Booklet ( circulation 5,000 ) on their website from September 2012, and consequently on their facebook and twitter accounts which highlighted all SCIBASE activities.
I’ve kept this blog going from the early days as a record of all of our activity, which hopefully will help other artists in their funding bids.( as well as the obvious reason of keeping ACE up to date !)
This recent blog is a little rushed I know, but I will add to it and amend when I have a little more time. The priority was to get this out this week to let everyone know about the Leeds exhibition, which ends this weekend.
Needless to say, none of this would have been possible without the backing of ACE Northwest.
SCIBase at SUPERMARKET: http://www.supermarketartfair.com/content/scibase
SCIBase and the Independents: http://www.independentsbiennial.org/2012/07/18/2012-registered-group-scibase/
DWF: http://dwf.uk.com/
