ARTISTS are being invited to pitch for a £12,000 “moving image” commission.
In partnership with Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority, Confluence – the team behind The Lab Haverfordwest - is inviting applications from artists working in the “moving image” medium to create a “socially-engaged, site-specific or site-responsive artwork”.
The commission’s title, ‘Pembrokeshire Drover’ refers to the bygone practice of herding cattle and other livestock to market, and the historic routes through the county along which animals were taken to Haverfordwest, and beyond.
The advert for ‘Pembrokeshire Drover’ advises the successful applicant will “take the commission’s title as a metaphor” and “immerse themselves within place and work collaboratively with people to produce an artwork which responds to the relationships and associations, historical and/or contemporary, between Haverfordwest and its rural and coastal hinterland”.
Confluence’s last major commission, ‘Black Diamond’ by London-based artist Serena Korda, involved a boat travelling upstream from Neyland to Haverfordwest while playing a rave music-inspired track.
Last year Confluence – a collaboration between PLANED, spacetocreate, iDeA Architects, Transition Haverfordwest and Pembrokeshire County Council - was awarded £405,000 from the Arts Council of Wales with £45,000 partnership funding from Pembrokeshire County Council to facilitate a three-year project which aims to regenerate Haverfordwest through arts-based initiatives.
For more information on ‘Pembrokeshire Drover’, visit www.thelabhaverfordwest.org
For a full brief on the commission, e-mail kate.wood@pembrokeshire.gov.uk. The deadline for applications is 5pm on Wednesday, October 14. Interviews will take place on Thursday, November 12.
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