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An artistic celebration of sport for 2012

Art at the Edge is inviting twenty nine established British sculptors, representing a wide range of styles from figurative to abstract, to study different Olympic or Paralympic sporting disciplines and create 1:5 scale sculpture maquettes.


All the sculptors will be introduced to a representative of their chosen sport’s National Governing Body so that they can gain insight into its key dynamics.

An additional work will be the winning entry in a nationwide sculpture competition that we will launch in 2011. This will be open to all school children and we will apply for the Cultural Olympiad’s Inspire Mark for this element of the project.

All thirty maquettes will be cast in bronze by the prestigious Pangolin Foundry in Gloucestershire.  The Bronze Collection will be available to support private functions in 2011 and will go on public display at a number of venues across the UK in 2012. They will be part of a public art event in Bath in the summer of 2012 and will be exhibited in London during the Games.

The bronze sculptures will form the core exhibition in a sport themed public art festival which we are organising for the city of Bath in the summer of 2012 but we also want to see sculptures diving off buildings, leaping railings or running in the streets..

Guest Artists working in a wide range of artistic disciplines will be invited to participate on a noncommissioned basis.  They will be selected to both compliment and broaden the event’s creative appeal.

Funding, Profits and Partnerships
Sufficient money has already been raised to commission the Bronze Collection.  

All artworks will be available for sale and the bronze sculptures will be offered as limited editions. Commercial sponsorship will help to finance the costs of scaling up sculptures and to support public art activities.
Net profits after costs will be used to generate a legacy by way of donations to ParalympicsGB and the Youth Sport Trust for the specific benefit of disabled or disadvantaged young people.

Bath and North East Somerset Council is a partner/sponsor and will ensure good governance. Pangolin Editions (foundry) are supporting all things sculptural, Northcliffe Media (Local press in the SW) and Matchtight (Sports event promoters) will assist with PR.  

Art at the Edge is registered as a Community Interest Company constituted to raise monies for charity.  The management team was previously part of the successful King Bladud’s Pigs in Bath public art project 2008 which raised £200,000 for charity.


 

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EmmaChappel

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