St James Square, Grimsby Public Art Commissions

We are looking to commission a collaboration of artists to work with Our Big Picture Ltd to deliver a community engagement programme that will explore the newly created shared space and ‘Place’ within St James Square in Grimsby town centre NE Lincolnshire, which is an integral feature of the high street and a ‘green heart of our community’. We want artists to investigate our town’s historic, contemporary and future narratives, hidden and known mythologies, journey and routes etc.

This community interactions and creative process will create multiple and varied conversations, artworks/performances/exhibitions that will interconnect and be refined into final physical visual wayfinding, stone benches, embellishments, wall and sculptural artworks, branding, maps etc.

Commissions includes:

We are in challenging times. One of our main challenges is to gather the thoughts and ideas of a cross demographic and diverse public from communities across NE Lincolnshire.
We want to work with our artists and designers in creative participation to create an exciting interactive online community resource that will encourage participation at different levels, creating content that supports research and broadens knowledge.

We hope to hold a mid-way ‘celebration’ event that showcases the community’s ideas and thoughts and how these are being translated into final artworks.

We are seeking artists for one or more of the following site-specific artworks. You could be invited to work on other project elements:-
- Wayfinding
- Stone Seating (3 to 5)
- Public artwork on Wilko’s store wall (facing St James Square)
- Fisherman’s Memorial Plinth (new plinth design)
- Projector content to be shown on Grimsby Minster
- Lighting effects through new lighting installation
- Interpretation boards and map branding framework
- Online content for Heritage trail Map
- Engagement with traditional craft, skills, and activities associated to the 12th Century Minster including traditional construction skills. For example, stone carving.
- The use of new technologies to produce new ways of interpreting.