Call for Socially Engaged Artists

Location: Wallington River Walk, Northumberland

Trust New Art (TNA) helps to grow people’s love of our special places by using contemporary arts to explore and express ‘Spirit of Place’ It is supported by partnerships with Arts Council England. The programme helps to build new and repeat audiences for the arts and our properties and follows the Trust’s approach to programming. It provides commissioning and career opportunities to both emerging and established artists and has become recognised in the arts sector as a mark of quality. In 2020 there are eight TNA projects in the North region exploring different aspects of Art and Environment, Nature and Culture. We want to work with socially engaged artists for our 2020 TNA programme in Northumberland.

What we want to achieve:  We want to work with artists alongside community engagement to explore what people need from the places we care for now and in the future. Through collaboration with our audiences, local partners and arts organisations we will creatively explore alternative ways to engage in these areas in the future and test ideas at Wallington through events and installations throughout 2020.

  

Situated in rural Northumberland, Wallington is a National Trust property with the outdoors at its heart. Visitors have been welcomed since 1929 when Sir Charles and Mary (Molly) Trevelyan first opened their home to the general public. The River Walk runs through woodland, a peaceful haven for wildlife and the River Wansbeck.