Maryport Arts and Heritage Partnership are looking for four artists/creators based in the CA15 area to create four new pieces on the theme of MADE IN MARYPORT, celebrating Maryport’s long history of manufacturing, creativity and making.
From the Roman altars and fortress, boat and ship building across the ages, fisheries and salt panning, iron ore and coal mines, coke blasting, glass making to the industries of the 20th century. From housewives making food and clothes, to the shipbuilders and property developers, the fishermen and farmers, the miners and iron workers, the retailers and publicans, the factory machinists and labourers and the musicians, writers and artists, the project seeks to celebrate them and the town and offer opportunities for the artists and creators currently in the town to develop their work.
Each commission can be any kind of artistic response to the theme – visual art, sculpture and photography, music, poetry/literature, digital art, dance, drama. We are open to all forms of artistic response to the theme.
Each successful submission will be awarded £500. They will be displayed or celebrated in a medium appropriate manner in the town during the Heritage Action Zone project and (where appropriate) owned by the town for display in perpetuity.
Artists/Creators mustbe resident in the CA15 postcode and must submit a proposal of no more than one side of A4 or a video presentation of no more than 5 minutes (with an example of previous work) by 5pm on 21st March 2022 to karen.thompson@yantantethera.co.uk. You do not have to be working full time as an artist/creative – enthusiastic and skilled amateur artists, musicians, poets, dramatists and creators are encouraged to apply. The final decision on the successful applicants will be made by the Partnership members.