Double-act : A Creative Conversation

Deadline extended to Wed 8 August due to Postal strikes

Project Ability provides professional arts training, support, development and exhibition opportunities for artists with learning disabilities, artists with mental health issues and children and young people with disabilities.

“Double-act : A Creative Conversation” is a unique project funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation providing an opportunity for learning disabled visual artists and mid-career visual artists (all visual media) to create a body of work for exhibition that reflects a working practice that is collaboratively driven.

We are looking for four mid-career professional artists to pair up with four artists with learning disabilities to work together over 120 hours to create new work for exhibition. This time is inclusive of all research and development, training and peer support, production, exhibition design and installation, reflection and interpretation.

The selected artists will be invited to develop a partnership that explores the nature of creative collaboration and to identify a common ground from which they will produce new work for an exhibition which will open on the 31 January 2008 in Project Ability's city centre Gallery.

The mid-career artists must demonstrate a commitment to working collaboratively and be open and responsive to new and different approaches to making art.

The artists with a learning disability must demonstrate a commitment to developing their artistic practice and they must have the necessary support in place which will enable them to fully take part. A small financial contribution will be made towards expenses.

An opportunity is also available for a film maker (30 hours) to document and record the partnerships and interview the artists as the project develops and on completion of the work.

Deadline for application is 5 pm on Wednesday 8th August 2007. Short listed applicants will be notified by Friday 17 August. Interviews will take place on Tuesday 28 August 2007 at Project Ability.

Click here for further information, job descriptions and the project brief.

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