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- The Big Art Project is an ambitious public art TV documentary and commissioning initiative, instigated by Channel 4. It aims to inspire and create new public art. It is supported by Arts Council England and The Art Fund.
In October 2005 Channel 4 asked the nation to get involved in the Big Art Project. The response was overwhelming – over 1,400 members of the public across the UK said they wanted some art for their communities and proposed a site.
The Big Art selection team tackled the huge task of working out which of those sites to take forward.
Selection was based on a list of practical criteria, including:
* planning and political support
* aesthetic and educational potential
* funding availability
* the range of art that might be possible
* enthusiasm and flexibility of the nominating community
* achievability within the time-frame
* the potential to maximise public access to the commissioning process and the final art work.
The Big Art Project selection team included:
Isabel Vasseur, a pioneer of the Public Arts movement
Peter Jenkinson, founding director of Walsall Art Gallery
Gus Casely Hayford, cultural historian and consultant
Kevin Murray, regeneration facilitator.
Together, they travelled the country meeting nominators, funders, politicians, public authorities and landowners to make the selection. From April 2006, seven sites were selected by the panel.
Communities around the selected sites worked with curators appointed by the Big Art Trust. The curators supported the communities in choosing which artists they wanted to see commissioned and the kind of art each place wanted to create. They also helped communities manage their Big Art Project as it progressed.
There have been, of course, challenges along the way. The seven selected sites were very different. The ambitions of each community were different too. That's what makes each Big Art Project unique.