Proposals
We’ve written several proposals over the years. So much work and collaboration goes into these proposals for them to sit in a folder never to be seen or realised. Many good ideas that for multiple reasons do not make the final cut. We thought we’d share them here for those who are interested and just in case anyone would like to commission one one day!
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THE QUEENS LEGS
Every day, workers are born. Set within a capitalist society, every new breath is an opportunity for financial gain or exploitation. Money makes the world go round. And it’s a man’s world.
• Those responsible for the miracle of birthing this new generation suffer most from capitalist and patriarchal systems, weighed down by the burden of lower paid work and a persistent gender pay-gap in advanced professions, responsible for a greater share of unpaid domestic work and maintaining a constant fight over their reproductive rights.
• This issue is highlighted by our large-scale interactive piece – the Queen’s Legs, drawing references from artwork by Tracey Emin and Judy Chicago. We invite festival goers to walk underneath and around giant quilted legs and sit upon freshly minted coin-cushions, embellished with the face of the newly appointed monarch.
• This sculpture is about power. The supersized legs make physical the immensity of this life giving force. In the words of Joy Crookes ‘You came here through a woman, show some f**king respect’.
• The scale of the cushions in comparison is ironic, mocking the inflated power of tiny coins in controlling the world. Visitors are encouraged to play with the cushions and contemplate the power of physical currency as a created commodity.
• This piece hopes to encourage viewers to question how we value money vs life, and appreciate how we are all complicit in upholding a capitalist society from the moment we enter the world.
Anti Capitalist but Not too anti capitalist - making for exposure. Not surprised this one didn’t make it.
Art commissions within Glastonbury are a reflection of the times. How do we radically break free from a capitalist system when we are it?
We live in an age in which public sector commissions pay well below the minimum wage. Artists from less privileged back-grounds are forced to sustain multiple additional jobs to subsidise poorly paid commissions or quit the industry entirely in need of financial security. A rapidly shrinking proportion of working class artists are active in the industry, reducing from 16.2% to 7.9%. We are missing out on the perspective/world view of the working classes and their lived experiences. This experience for artists is a symptom of the system and consequence of capitalism.
Self-aware, subversive and cheeky, this is an intentionally confronting piece which challenges the role and responsibility of arts within a progressive setting.
What is the true cost of exposure to the artist? What deserves the value of money? This piece hopes to generate conversation about a topic of increasing urgency and relevance within creative spheres in a self-critical and conscious way.
Reference: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/mar/12/artists-in-uk-public-sector-making-far-below-minimum-wage-survey-finds?fbclid=PAAaY6FxbI5_nWNrf6msG7NEb49Z58kpW9O8Cj4v2Guo2YcY8OQtxIyH8Tk1c
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