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Bridging gaps
Interrogation Walsall that explores the impact that one artist can make in one place in one day is part of Longhouse’s annual programme, which provides professional development opportunities for artists working in the public realm.
Longhouse is an annual arts programme by West Bromwich-based community arts organisation Multistory. The New Art Gallery Walsall offered Longhouse use of the artist's studio for a month, as a parallel project to their Professional Artist's development (PAD). Selected from an open call, artists had one day each to work in Walsall as a secret agent, working during September in one of four areas: Action Research, Consultation, Interrogation and Collaboration. Findings and results will be disseminated and discussed at a symposium on 2 October. Lead artist Anna Francis says of the project: "The idea is to bring artists into a space for one day, to equip them with a set of tools, information and instructions and a designated public space in which to work." This approach of supporting artists and offering both platform and funding for new work is one example of how established institutions can offer really valuable PAD to artists at important stages in their career. Such programmes act as badly-needed bridges to the gap between institutions and established galleries and smaller artist-led, independent spaces and development opportunities in that difficult no-man? land between emerging...
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