Yorkshire | Artists taking the lead

Shortlisted:

Dennis Rollins

Award-winning jazz trombonist Dennis Rollins has proposed Brazzmatazz – a project rooted in the brass playing traditions of Doncaster and South Yorkshire. The project will nurture love and respect for brass music by encouraging, engaging and challenging young people to play new works of all genres with their brass instruments. There will also be new commissions, culminating in a major showcase piece featuring a large number of players focusing on the opening in 2012 of Doncaster’s New Performance Venue and linking into a national celebration of the Cultural Olympiad.

Lee Merrill Sendall

Large Spiral Mound. LMS. Watercolour by Dominic Heffer 2009.

Lee Merrill Sendall proposes to build a large spiral mound in East Yorkshire, which will create outstanding views of the surrounding flat landscape. Constructed through a cooperative effort, people and companies from around the UK will be encouraged to bring their waste earth and rubble to the site. The end result will be a simple, yet mysterious landmark that could contain samples of earth, rock, sand, clay and chalk from all over the UK.
Location: East Yorkshire
http://vantage2012.wordpress.com/

Pilot Theatre and KMA

Pilot Theatre Artistic Director Marcus Romer and KMA propose 5circles2012, a project that will see five large circular stages in five Yorkshire cities – creating artistic urban playgrounds on a grand scale. Each circle will host a series of interactive games and public art installations, with a projector suspended above the ground which would react to the movement of the people within the space. Through this, people will have a unique interaction with light, sound and other participants. The project will be accompanied by an interactive website, allowing people to create and programme their own sequences in the circles. It will be rolled out from five cities to five countries to five continents up to 2012, spreading across the world from Yorkshire.

Ilkley Literature Festival with Simon Armitage

Poet Simon Armitage, in collaboration with animateur Rachel Feldberg and a leading sculptor, will create an epic poem inspired by Ilkley Moor and its successive waves of settlement, movement and migration. The poem will be inscribed into the rocks of the moor and incorporated into the great quarry behind the Cow and Calf. Communities and young people across the region will work with poets, calligraphers, and stone masons to create their own linked poems, reflecting the relationship between humans and their landscape, which will be incised on special paving stones across the streets and parks of the region’s cities. A live outdoor performance in the natural amphitheatre of the quarry, featuring climbers, cyclists, digital media artists, musicians and dancers who interpret spoken word through performance and using pedal-powered projections of Armitage’s poem will celebrate the works unveiling in 2012 and be shared across the region via the ‘big screens’ of major cities and online..

‘Leeds Canvas’ offered an inspirational vision for how the image of Yorkshire’s biggest city could be culturally transformed - by allowing artists to use it as their canvas. The proposed partnership between the Quay Brothers and Leeds’ arts organisations was very impressive, and the commitment to repeat the project to coincide with future Olympic Games will ensure a longstanding legacy.

Nima Poovaya-Smith

founding Director of Alchemy, a cultural enterprise company based in Yorkshire. Previous posts include Head of Special Projects at the National Media Museum (Bradford) and Director of Arts at Arts Council, Yorkshire.

Geraldine Connor

is a freelance Arts Consultant. An ethnomusicologist by profession, her career has spanned many roles including Senior Lecturer, ,Associate Director, composer, musical supervisor and vocal director. Her work includes 'Carnival Messiah' and 'The Harder They Come'.

Sohail Khan

studied Drama, Theatre and Performance in Devon, Holland and Russia. He freelances in all sorts of settings from theatres to the streets. Most recently he performed as an artist at the National Revue of Live Art 09.

Andy Wood

digital media artist who works with moving image and sound. His work has been screened internationally and he currently runs Sound Alibi Productions, a media company who provide integrated digital media production services for the arts.

Nicola Stephenson

Director of The Culture Company, a contemporary visual arts production and commissioning agency based in Leeds. Her portfolio includes 'Public Sightings', 'Colour Stops' and 'Chorus'

Lateisha Lovelace-Hanson

performer, theatre advocate, and facilitator. She completed her A-levels in 2007 and has had roles at the Lawrence Batley Youth Theatre, and Arts Council England's Young Peoples Participatory Theatre project (National Youth Council member).

Cluny Macpherson

Head of External Relations for the Arts Council in Yorkshire. Prior to joining the Arts Council he was a project manager with the arts department of Leeds City Council.

Tessa Gordziejko

Creative Programmer, Yorkshire. Previous roles include Director of Arts & Business Yorkshire, Chair of the BBC's Regional Advisory Council for Yorkshire and a member of the English National Forum. She was a Fellow on the Clore Cultural Leadership Programme.