House of Commons seeks creative practitioner

House of Commons commission for a creative practitioner to run a residency programme commemorating and celebrating race discrimination legislation.

The Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art seeks to commission a UK-based creative practitioner to undertake a residency to create six new works, through participatory community workshops, relating to the development of race discrimination legislation. These works will be displayed during October/November 2018 within the participating local communities, and early in 2019 in the Houses of Parliament.

The residency is to mark the campaign for, and the passing of early race discrimination legislation in 1965, 1968 and 1976, it will reflect and celebrate:

• the growth of an inclusive democracy;
• the people who campaigned and fought for the changes of legislation;
• the experience of the generations who, empowered by the legislation, continued to campaign.

At the end of the residency the practitioner will have the opportunity to develop a proposal for a piece of art suitable for permanent display in Parliament and acquisition into the Parliamentary Art Collection.

Practitioners working in the areas of fine art, iPad/digital art, photography, design or craft with experience in both exhibition and community-based practice are invited to apply before 12 noon on April 12^th 2017.

Full details of the commission and application process can be found on http://www.parliament.uk/art-rraresidency.