A Sense of Place – Open Call

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We are inviting submissions from individual artists or collectives to propose a creative response inspired by an artwork from the collection held by the London Borough of Hounslow.

Seven artworks have been chosen from the collection by Hounslow Exhibitions Group, depicting a range of current and former sites across the borough of Hounslow. This includes:

Treaty Road Baths (now the location of the Treaty Centre) in Hounslow;
Brentford Market;
St Leonards Church in Heston;
the London Museum of Water and Steam Museum in Brentford;
Watersplash in Cranford;
The Bell Pub in Hounslow;
a view of Feltham (images of the works below).

Proposals should choose at least one of these works to respond to. This response could be a small artwork, a piece of text, a poem, a photograph, a workshop, a performance, a walk, or another creative form.

Whatever form a response takes, it should reflect Hounslow’s diverse communities. This may involve working with a specified group or community as part of the proposal. The response should have a clear link to the piece from the collection and respond to the theme ‘A Sense of Place’.

Whilst the response can be created in any media, it must have a final outcome that can be digitised and printed for display so that it is exhibitable as part of the touring library exhibitions programme. For example, if the proposal includes a workshop or a walk, there must be creative outputs or documentation from the workshop that can be printed and exhibited.

The Exhibition

The works created in response to this brief will be part of an exhibition that will tour six of Hounslow’s Libraries across two years. The Libraries include: Feltham, Hounslow, Cranford, Bedfont, Hanworth and Heston.

The exhibition will launch in two phases.

We are looking for two artist responses to be ready to exhibit in phase one, launching in February 2025 at Hounslow Library.

The exhibition will then tour to Hanworth Library in June 2025, where the remaining commissions will be installed.

The phasing of the exhbition install is to give artists delivering workshops or live elements as part of their work sufficient time to deliver this engagement. Proposals should make clear the time frame for production of the work.

Apply

To apply, please complete the short application form (via google forms) including:

Your contact details
A short project proposal and outline of how it responds to at least one of the seven outlined works from Hounslow Council’s art collection
Whether your work will be ready to include in Phase 1 or Phase 2 or the exhibition install
A pdf of images or examples of your work
Monitoring data

Deadline: Wednesday 6^th November, 5pm

Download the full brief here: