The Egremont Red project will celebrate Florence Paintmakers, a micro business within Florence Arts Centre based on the site of a former iron ore mine at the heart of West Cumbria’s Priority Place. https://www.florenceartscentre.com/florence-paintmakers
We make a range of art materials using Cumbrian minerals, including iron ore (Egremont Red) from the site, which are sold online, wholesale and at the arts centre and are prized by creatives wishing to portray stories of Cumbrian people and landscapes. The business represents a living legacy for the iron and steel industry, which once dominated the area, and for local people who were employed at Florence (until 2007) and other mines in the area.
As part of this projects, we are commissioning artists to create new work for an exhibition called Ground5.
Open Call
We are commissioning 4 regionally significant artists to work with or respond to Florence Paintmakers products and share their practice with local people through an exhibition at Florence Arts Centre and an accompanying programme of events.
We are looking for professional artists that want to experiment and extend their practice to develop new innovative work in response to the subject matter. This could be how they use the Paintmakers materials, reflect on the paintmaking process or the history of the Florence site.
The commission is open to individual artists or collectives in the North West but you must have experience of exhibiting in a professional gallery.
Please find the full brief here . Please note the deadline for proposals is 19 August.
If you have any questions or would like to visit the site ahead of submission please contact producer Anne Timpson via email aetimpson17@gmail.com before Friday 14 August.
