A13 Artscape Project

Your questions answered

Why use artists and is the artwork appropriate for the location?

Attitudes to art vary greatly depending on individual experience.

Obviously the way art is presented to people shapes the way they feel about it and the borough has determined that its regeneration schemes, school programmes, community outreach and training offer should, wherever possible, include access to cultural activity.

This takes shape in a long term Arts Development programme of community activity, partnerships with schools and developments such as the new Broadway and Creative Industry sector, investment in the Heritage facilities, libraries, adult and community education.

The emphasis is on ensuring that people are not restricted in access to Arts Programme and Cultural Development, whether leisure, lifestyle or career choice, because of where they live.

The borough's heritage is often overlooked and the perception of it as a largely industrial and culturally bereft borough has prevailed in the past, but efforts are ongoing to demonstrate that this is not the case.

A13 Artscape takes the opportunity to present artistic features and design in the urban environment, setting the agenda for the rest of the borough.

That is, all our public places, spaces and amenities are considered appropriate for the inclusion of artists and designers of national reputation in their design and construction, not just 1 or 2 discreet areas that only a select few may experience 'art in public'.

The following quote supports this effort by asserting that arts enriches our life and that it should be visible:

"We can not begin to live a more artful life, which is the avenue to soul, if in the public life around us, and in everything we see and inhabit, art is invisible".

Thomas Moore

Scrattons Farm|

Contact

Arts Programme and Cultural Development

4th Floor

Maritime House

1 Linton Road

Barking

IG11 8HG

Tel: 020 8227 2482

Fax: 020 8227 3254

Email: artsadmin@lbbd.gov.uk|