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1 Plus is a network of visual TatePlus Network arts organisations that share ideas, experiences, practices and programmes to increase public value and to broaden and deepen engagement in art. The partners share a common vision and ambition to inspire people about art. 2 Plus Tate network TatePlus Network This network is designed to enable some of the liveliest visual arts organisations in the UK with a focus on modern and contemporary art to share ideas and expertise, as well as programmes and collections, with the intention of broadening and deepening public engagement in the visual arts. From Nottingham Contemporary to the Pier Arts Centre in Stromness, Orkney; from The Hepworth and Cornerhouse, to the recently reopened Mostyn in Llandudno; from Wysing to Grizedale; from the (Kettle’s Yard) to the (The Whitworth); from Margate and Eastbourne to Gateshead and Swansea, the visual arts are making a huge difference to the cultural and socio-economic regeneration of regions. The UK is known internationally for the ambition and quality of its artists, cultural leaders and its visual arts ecology. The partners share a common vision and ambition to inspire people about art. Each organisation, including Tate, is undergoing organisational development and change, often involving a capital project. All are committed to expanding participation in the visual arts 4 and to collaboration and exchange with the network as a whole. This will be more vital than ever at a time of constrained public funding. The Plus Tate initiative allows Tate to contribute to public knowledge and enjoyment of art beyond our own galleries by collaborating closely with imaginative organisations that have national and international profiles and strong links with their local communities. We will use our scale, profile, resources and Collection to respond to and support other organisations and individuals, not to become Tate or Tate satellites nor to be beholden to Tate – but to be themselves. Increasingly, we hope that the network will grow, adapt and take on a life of its own. This is a reciprocal process and Tate may be leader, follower, participant, recipient, catalyst or background presence, depending on the situation of individuals and the network, as an entity. Caroline Collier Director, Tate National Director, Tate Plus TatePlus Network

5 Plus TatePlus Network OUR VISION: A SPACE FOR IDEAS TatePlus Network

• A space for dialogue; enabling artists and audiences to engage in critical debate around issues of contemporary culture.

• A space for contemplation, allowing room for personal reflection, as well as reflection upon our own individual relationship to wider social conventions.

• A space for subjective experience; for pleasure and for strong emotions. Our strategic priorities are: Experimentation, • A space for making meaning, a social Interdisciplinarity, Interaction, Social Context space, and, thus, a force for change. and Internationalism. Seeds of Change: a Ballast Seed Garden for is an example of how Arnolfini approaches these priorities. As part of the 2007 Arnolfini exhibition Port City, artist Maria Thereza Alves uncovered possible ballast sites and seeds around Bristol’s Harbourside. Working with different communities, these 7 Arnolfini’s move to Narrow ballast seeds were germinated and grown. The Quay in 1975 proved a 8 project re-establishes the histories of ballast catalyst in attracting other flora, the potential of individual histories that businesses to the then these plants were witness to, and the connection to the economic and social history of Bristol. An neglected docks, and the actual Ballast Seed Garden is planned, working revitalised Harbourside is in partnership with organisations such as the University of Bristol and Bristol City Council. now a focal point for Bristol’s www.arnolfini.org.uk/ballastseedgarden social and cultural life. Arnolfini provides Bristol and the We want to be part of Plus Tate in order to West of with a centre for the build longer-term partnerships, and to develop Left: Arnolfini building, Bristol Harbourside, photo Jamie Woodley collaborative practice through networks. Our contemporary arts of international Right: The Big Draw, Arnolfini galleries, photo Adam Faraday significance. It aims to create the Below: Family day event, Arnolfini, photo Adam Faraday involvement would facilitate closer relationships conditions for experimentation and with peer organisations, enable training and engagement across the contemporary arts professional development opportunities for staff for the widest possible range of people. and encourage knowledge sharing.

Arnolfini’s move to Narrow Quay in 1975 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA proved a catalyst in attracting other businesses to the then neglected docks, and +44 (0)117 9172300 / 01 the revitalised Harbourside is now a focal www.arnolfini.org.uk point for Bristol’s social and cultural life. Funders: Arts Council England, Bristol City Council Plus TatePlus Network BALTIC is a major international centre for Located in a converted flour mill, BALTIC TatePlus Network contemporary art situated on the south has played a significant role within the bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead, regeneration of Gateshead Quayside England. It presents a constantly alongside its architecturally acclaimed changing, distinctive and ambitious neighbours the Gateshead Millennium Bridge programme of exhibitions and events, and The Sage Gateshead. Since opening and is a world leader in the presentation, in 2002, it has welcomed more than 3.5 commissioning and communication of million visitors from across the world to contemporary visual art. see exhibitions from artists such as Antony Gormley, Jenny Holzer, Ed and Nancy Kienholz, Yoko Ono, Spencer Tunick A PLACE TO LEARN, CREATE AND PLAY and Sam Taylor-Wood.

Learning and engagement are central to the visitor experience at BALTIC. Located in the THE TURNER PRIZE GOES TO BALTIC heart of the gallery is Quay; a place to learn, create and play for children, young people In 2009, BALTIC collaborated with Tate for and families. Each year BALTIC provides the first time to bring Damien Hirst’s formal education for over 15,000 school Pharmacy to the North East. Since then the children, during nearly 400 sessions ranging relationship has continued to grow enabling 9 from art clubs, photography courses, artist BALTIC to be the first non-Tate venue to host talks and artist-led workshops. However, the prestigious Turner Prize in 2011. The 10 BALTIC’s education offer transcends its Plus Tate partnership has also been beneficial landmark building through a vast array of by assisting BALTIC to benchmark its plans community-led activities encouraging more and practices; fundamentally, the wider people, young and old, to interact and collaboration has created a forum in which experience contemporary art. individual and group issues can be shared, and constructive ideas can be embedded across the sector more quickly.

Since opening in 2002, the BALTIC has welcomed more Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, than 3.5 million visitors Gateshead, NE8 3BA from across the world. +44 (0)191 478 1810 www.balticmill.com

Left: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, photo Colin Davison Funders: Arts Council England, Gateshead Council Plus TatePlus Network COLLABORATION KEY TO In 2009, over 9,800 people of all ages TatePlus Network PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT and backgrounds took part in our engagement programme, which includes our Projector Our unique approach to working with artists, programme for schools, and LiveWire for curators and audiences embraces principles young people aged 14-19. We also offer a wide of open source and collective intelligence. range of unique courses and an extensive Alongside our international curatorial advisers programme of artists’ talks, Q&As and gallery Michael Connor and Henriette Huldisch, tours, as well as operating an international we collaborate with young people, artists, distribution service for contemporary visual freelance curators and universities to create arts books and catalogues. our adventurous visual arts programme. It has proved hugely successful; almost 500,000 people visited us in 2009 and our visual arts audience has doubled.

We provide a launch pad for emerging international and national artists, and present new commissions and major projects from mid-career and more established artists. Our programme is international in focus and prioritises participation and film and 11 video; we investigate specific social and Cornerhouse is proud to political concerns through regular thematic 12 group exhibitions. Recent critically acclaimed be a partner in the Plus Tate exhibitions and projects include Procession by network. We look forward Jeremy Deller (with Manchester International Festival), Contemporary Art Iraq, Unrealised to learning from our new Potential, and Artur Zmijewski, the last two partners, sharing knowledge currently touring the UK. of emerging artists and trends and working together to Left: Cornerhouse Exterior, photo Brian Slater 2010 create exciting programme Below Unrealised Potential preview, photo Paul Greenwood Cornerhouse is Manchester’s opportunities and new ways international centre for contemporary visual art and independent film and is of engaging audiences. one of the leading multi-disciplinary arts organisations in the UK. Now entering our 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH 25th year, we have a strong track record in ambitious programming and innovative +44 (0)161 228 7621 engagement activities, and we hold a www.cornerhouse.org unique and valued position at the heart Funders: Arts Council England, Manchester City Council of the cultural and economic resurgence AGMA, North West Regional Development Agency, of Manchester. UK Film Council, Vision+Media, Europa Cinemas was based at the Minories Art TatePlus Network firstsite commissions new work and TatePlus Network Gallery in for over 12 years where collaborates with nationally recognised it presented a mix of work by established partners to deliver an ambitious programme and emerging artists including Yoko Ono, of exhibitions, performances, publications Louise Bourgeois, Garrett Phelan and Leo and installations from regional, national and Fitzmaurice. It has consistently presented international artists. It runs an extensive artist work outside the gallery space including support programme and delivers a varied a programme of new commissions which learning programme. celebrate the distinctive landscape – by artists such as Masaki Fujihata and In 2011, firstsite will move into a state-of- Nathan Coley. firstsite works extensively the-art building designed by internationally with many different communities to renowned architect Rafael Viñoly. This achieve its vision: to make contemporary capital project is in partnership with Arts art relevant and life changing. Most Council England, Essex County Council, recently, it has initiated a new creative Colchester Borough Council, East of England hub in Colchester supporting the work of Development Agency and the University emerging creative industries in the area of Essex. firstsite works closely with the University of Essex to showcase its work in and spearheading the regeneration of OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS FIRSTSITE’S the town, to widen opportunities through Colchester’s new cultural quarter. NEW HOME IS EXPECTED TO: its Knowledge Transfer Programme and to

13 present its internationally important collection • contribute £20 million to of Latin American Art (UECLAA). firstsite’s new the region’s economy 14 programme will consider the significance of its location exploring themes of landscape, • attract 1.5 million visitors military history, archaeology and its Latin American connections. The new building will

house flexible exhibition spaces, a 200-seat

auditorium, learning, eating, shopping and social spaces. The network has provided

As a partner of the Plus Tate network, firstsite a ‘fast track’ platform to

has benefitted from Tate’s expertise and share experience and profile at this key time in its development.

It has been especially valuable to be part test new models and ways

of a peer network which is engaged in of working - vital in these new building and capital programmes. challenging times. The network has provided a ‘fast track’ platform to share experience and test new models and ways of working - vital in these 4 – 6 Short Wyre Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1LN challenging times. +44 (0)1206 577067 www.firstsite.uk.net Left: Emma Cameron, 15 Artists, 15 Days, Funders: Arts Council England, Essex County December 2009, photo Douglas Atfield Right: firstsite, under construction, photo Douglas Atfield Council, Colchester Borough Council Plus TatePlus Network Our exhibitions programme has been A NEW NETWORK BRINGS NEW THINKING TatePlus Network distinguished by artists in as well as from elsewhere. Notable projects include Shimabuku, Joining Plus Tate will strengthen these Mark Wallinger, Peter Finnemore, Displaced – initiatives and enable us to extend our Contemporary Art from Colombia, Tim Davies, networks to enhance programmes and and a forthcoming exchange between Swansea collaborations. Being a Plus Tate partner will and Xiamen in China. support future research, whilst enabling us to borrow artworks for displays and exhibitions. An active learning programme is integral to This long-term transformative partnership our work and recent initiatives have focused will also benefit the Gallery team through on meeting the needs of diverse audiences exchanges with Tate, bringing the stimulus of across the city with an open, engaging and new thinking across all of our programmes. transformative approach to participation. We are looking forward to establishing Our redevelopment plans will bring tangible new relations with Plus Tate partners, so benefits for our local economy, with the that creative projects can be realised in a Gallery forming a cultural hub for the city’s collective process, and to working with Tate regeneration strategy in this part of Swansea. in ways which will strengthen our current developmental work at the Gallery. This reciprocal approach will introduce exciting new possibilities for our programmes, our 15 audiences and for artists in Wales. 16

Left: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery – Atrium, Mark Wallinger, Ecce Homo, Courtesy Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London An active learning programme Below: Gwen John (1876-1939), The Nun, c1910s, photo Graham Matthews is integral to our work and

Transformation is a thread that runs recent initiatives have focused throughout our work at the Gallery and on meeting the needs of our support for the visual arts in today’s local and global context. diverse audiences across the city with an open, engaging The Gallery is currently planning a major redevelopment, which will offer a transformed and transformative approach visitor experience, working with a new synergy to participation. between our exhibitions, collections and learning programmes. Alexandra Road, Swansea, SA1 5DZ Founded in 1911 by the original bequest of +44 (0)1792 516900 Richard Glynn Vivian (1835-1910), this handsome Edwardian gallery belongs to the City & County www.glynnviviangallery.org of Swansea, and houses a distinctive collection Funders: Arts Council of Wales, formed over the last century. City & County of Swansea Plus TatePlus Network It has recently taken a step change in its AN AGENT OF CHANGE, EDUCATION TatePlus Network ambitions, through the capital development of AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT Lawson Park as a new model arts institution. Linking the global and the local and engaging The ambitious development of this farm with issues that are particularly relevant to provides the organisation with a new the 21st century, Grizedale has experimented headquarters for its unique and highly with a range of strategies to support artists influential artistic programme. Grizedale Arts to produce extraordinary work and to works on social and cultural development replenish their practices. Grizedale Arts locally and internationally, ranging from promotes a new vision of art and life, working international projects such as the Sao across geographical and cultural zones that Paulo Bienal, Romantic Detachment at PS1/ challenge the conventions and dominance MoMA, New York; the Seven Samurai, Japan; of metropolitan culture. Virtual Grizedale at the Liverpool Biennial; Happystacking, China, 2008; to local initiatives At the heart of Grizedale Arts is a philosophy such as a regeneration strategy for the West that promotes the use of art and artists Cumbrian town of Egremont, The Coniston as agents of change, education and social Water Festival, and the redevelopment of development. the Coniston Institute, as well as broadcast As all our projects are collaborative, becoming projects on Grizedale TV. a partner in the Plus Tate network allows 17 us to formalise our relationship with similar organisations and increase the opportunities to 18 show the work we produce to a wider audience.

Grizedale Arts promotes a new vision of art and life, working

Left: Lawson Park Farm, headquarters of across geographical and Grizedale Arts, photo Grizedale Arts Below: Harold Offeh as Kerry Stewart’s Crow at Late FROM AGRICULTURE TO SUPERCULTURE at Tate Grizedale Arts, Adding Complexity to Confusion, cultural zones that challenge , June 2010, photo Karen Guthrie the conventions and dominance Grizedale Arts is a curatorial project in a continuous state of development. of metropolitan culture. Over the last 30 years it has evolved in response to its particular context; from its origins as a sculpture park to Lawson Park, East of Lake, Coniston, Cumbria. LA21 8AD its current form as a complex network of international alliances, affinities and +44 (0)15394 41050 programmes emanating from and flowing www.grizedale.org into its particular location in the heart of Funders: Arts Council England, the Lake District. South Lakeland District Council will be TatePlus Network YORKSHIRE’S MAJOR NEW ART GALLERY TatePlus Network Yorkshire’s inspiring new art gallery opening in May 2011. Celebrating the Designed by Architects, the area’s unique artistic legacy, it will ten superb gallery spaces make this one of provide access to world-class art for the the UK’s largest purpose-built galleries. The residents of Yorkshire and beyond. Our Hepworth Wakefield will display historic and association with and modern art, alongside changing exhibitions – who were both born in the of contemporary art. Facilities include an Wakefield District – features strongly in auditorium, learning studios, garden, café and our nationally significant collection. shop, completed by stunning views over the River Calder. The £35 million gallery is the jewel in Wakefield’s Waterfront redevelopment.

A highlight of the displays will be an unknown and unique collection of forty sculptures by AN INSPIRATIONAL PLACE FOR ALL Barbara Hepworth, gifted by the Hepworth Estate. The collection displays will provide a Ambitious learning, outreach and events Top right: School children taking part in the Building programmes will engage visitors of all ages, Bridges Programme, 2010, photo THW Learning Team fascinating context with works by Hepworth’s Bottom right: Photo Mark Hemingway contemporaries including , supporting the development of new skills Below: The Hepworth Wakefield building Graham Sutherland, Paul Nash, Patrick Heron, through workshops and seminars with artists and international artists such as , and educators. 19 Constantin Brancusi and Alberto Giacometti, The Hepworth Wakefield will be a leading 20 through the support of Tate loans. force in the artistic, educational, economic and The Hepworth Wakefield will present an social life of the region, establishing Yorkshire ambitious temporary exhibition programme of as one of the UK’s leading visitor destinations. work by leading UK and international artists. The Plus Tate is a vital part of our offer. It enables gallery’s inaugural exhibition will be work by the and supports an important peer group of sculptor, Eva Rothschild. Forthcoming projects nationally significant galleries to share ideas include work by Haroon Mirza, Luke Fowler, Ben and expertise, and collaborate in new ways. Rivers and Clare Woods among others. Crucially it allows audiences in Yorkshire to have greater access to key works in Tate’s collection and the benefit of its curatorial knowledge and research. The Hepworth Wakefield will be a leading force in the artistic, educational, economic and social life 1 Wentworth Terrace, Wakefield, WF1 3QW of the region, establishing +44 (0)1924 305796 Yorkshire as one of the UK’s www.hepworthwakefield.org leading visitor destinations. Funders: Wakefield Council, Arts Council England Plus TatePlus Network Ikon’s Learning team aims to develop dynamic TatePlus Network relationships with a wide range of audiences, enabling visitors to engage with, discuss and reflect on exhibited work. Ikon’s learning programme often involves working with artists who are exhibiting or making projects with the galley and is wide and varied, encompassing talks, tours, off-site projects, workshops, seminars and symposia.

Since 2000, Ikon has delivered off-site programmes, reflecting a commitment to the regeneration of inner city areas Above: Family Saturdays at Ikon, photo and communities in . For the Left: Ikon Gallery, photo Stuart Whipps past five years Ikon Eastside - based in Bottom: Carmen Herrera (2009), installation view, photo Stuart Whipps Digbeth, a district earmarked by the city for regeneration, with an emphasis on culture, digital and learning – has been a catalyst for the establishment of other creative companies and artist-led initiatives in the area. 21 Ikon has been championing a proposal for

a new museum of contemporary art for 22 For the past five years Ikon Birmingham and is currently delivering a

feasibility study funded by the City Council, Eastside - based in Digbeth,

Arts Council England and the regional a district earmarked by the development agency. The City Council

has established ambitions and plans for city for regeneration, with an

Birmingham for the next 10-30 years and Ikon emphasis on culture, digital Ikon exhibits, initiates and supports new 2, the new museum of contemporary art, is and innovative contemporary art from an essential part of such long-term vision. and learning – has been a Britain and abroad, playing a vital role catalyst for the establishment in the cultural life of Birmingham and the West Midlands. Ikon’s international of other creative companies programme can be seen not only in and artist-led initiatives in gallery exhibitions but also in off-site work, Ikon Eastside, touring and collaborations the area. (including international biennials) and educational outreach, and is exemplified by recent notable shows including 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham, B1 2HS Kitagawa Utamaro, Carmen Herrera, +44 (0)121 248 0708 Matias Faldbakken, On Kawara, Steven www.ikon-gallery.co.uk Shearer, Martin Boyce, Ryan Gander and Funders: Arts Council England, Giuseppe Penone. Birmingham City Council ART AS ‘A WAY OF LIFE’ TatePlus Network Over the years Kettle’s Yard has grown. The TatePlus Network original cottages were given a fine modernist Kettle’s Yard was founded in 1957 by extension by the architect Sir Leslie Martin Jim Ede, Tate’s first curator of modern and an exhibition gallery presents an art, and became part of Cambridge international programme of contemporary University in 1966. Ede’s vision was to and 20th century art. show that the art of our time could be an integral part of everyday life. He created With the house and collection as a sounding a house where modern art combines board, the gallery programme combines one with furniture, ceramics, glass and person and group exhibitions of new work – natural objects, and where visitors are Helena Almeida, Callum Innes and Edmund encouraged to relax and contemplate. de Waal in recent times – with exhibitions revisiting the recent past such as Starting from Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57, WE the moderns: Gaudier-Brzeska and his European contemporaries and Roger Hilton.

For the 2010 exhibition Modern Times: responding to chaos, film-maker and artist Lutz Left: Michael Craig-Martin, the ‘dancer’ room, from the Becker took a personal journey through the exhibition Upside Down/Inside Out 2009, photo Paul Allitt 20th century from Russian Constructivism to 23 American Minimalism. The exhibition provided the context for films, new music, symposia and 24 talks across a range of disciplines.

Education has always been central to Kettle’s Yard’s mission, working with formal education, community development and Education has always the health sector. There are now plans to complete Kettle’s Yard with a new wing, been central to Kettle’s designed by Jamie Fobert, providing two Yard’s mission, working education spaces and a café to encourage regular use. A project gallery, an extended with formal education, art library and proper collection storage are community development included in the scheme. and the health sector. Tate has been a vital partner as a major lender to many Kettle’s Yard exhibitions. With the new development, we envisage a strong Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ partnership with Plus Tate in extending our +44 (0)1223 748100 programmes to an ever widening community. www.kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk Funders: Arts Council England, Cambridge City Council, The Friends of Kettle’s Yard, The Higher Education Funding Council mima (Middlesbrough Institute of TatePlus Network mima – A BEACON OF LONG-TERM TatePlus Network Modern Art) is a new art museum, which REGENERATION OF MIDDLESBROUGH produces and delivers exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, alongside Since opening in 2007, mima has received developing its collection of fine and over half a million visitors, and is a key applied art particularly drawing (British attraction at the core of Middlesbrough’s and American) ceramics and jewellery. cultural offer. It has a significant impact on the local economy through attracting visitors and Its artistic achievements to date include: students to the region, inward investment and Ellsworth Kelly a solo exhibition in direct an improved perception of the town. As one collaboration with the artist and Art Fund of the town’s biggest success stories of recent International, Gerhard Richter exhibition in years, mima is a beacon of the long-term partnership with ARTIST ROOMS and an regeneration of Middlesbrough. innovative ceramics show Possibilities and Losses looking at the position of the craft Education is integral to all things mima. maker today. These exhibitions created mima has recruited and nurtured a group of opportunities to tour internationally, receive enthusiastic young people aged 14-21 to form For mima the partnership through Plus Tate has high level media coverage and ultimately The Modern Times (TMT). The group takes advanced the institution’s thinking and practice acquire new works for mima’s collection. part in all areas of the institution including through generating genuine collaboration. decision-making and programming. mima Three key themes we have identified through education delivers an inspiring programme of our partnership are: leadership, engagement, 25 school activities, facilitating workshops and and organisational skills, alongside fantastic tours for 20,000 pupils since opening. Our opportunities to bring works from Tate’s 26 talks programme brings regional, national impressive Collection to Middlesbrough. A key and international figures to Middlesbrough, project is a collaborative exhibition with Tate with recent high profile talks by Anish Kapoor St Ives for 2014, which will explore the St Ives & Cecil Balmond and Michael Craig-Martin & School of artists and internationalism. Matthew Collings.

Since opening in 2007,

Above right: Life drawing on mima terrace mima has received over half Below: mima galleries, Bonnie Camplin Railway Mania 2010 Left: mima exterior and centre square, photos Cathal Carey a million visitors, and is a

key attraction at the core of Middlesbrough’s cultural offer.

Centre Square, Middlesbrough, TS1 2AZ +44 (0)1642 726 720 www.visitmima.com Funders: Arts Council England, Middlesbrough Council Plus TatePlus Network ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE, ENJOYMENT TatePlus Network AND LEARNING FOR EVERYONE

This special building is home to what The Guardian described as ‘one of the most adventurous contemporary art venues in the country’. That adventure comes from Mostyn’s artistic vision, driven by a love of and belief in excellence, creativity, imaginativeness, the distinctive voice, original thought, seriousness about the human condition – and the accessibility of art based on the hugely diverse yet fundamentally shared nature of human experience. The gallery is thus a showcase for the best contemporary art being produced in Wales and brings to Wales some of Above: Oriel 3 gallery with works by David the most interesting art being produced Hastie and David Nash, photo Hélène Binet Left: Photo Hélène Binet overseas. Mounting solo exhibitions by key artists from Africa and Latin America is a 27 distinctive strand within this. The wide range of educational and community activities 28 accompanying the exhibitions makes the gallery a great place of enjoyment and learning for everyone from toddlers to adults, while the exhibitions and artists’ talks provide a focus for north Wales’ artistic community. Mostyn reopened in May 2010 with a splendid building, part new, part Mostyn joined Plus Tate for the unique This special building refurbished, designed by the noted access it offers to ideas and experience architect Dominic Williams in an approach is home to what The at the highest level, and sees it as a means defined by Consultant Artist Lois to collaborating with the outstanding galleries Guardian described as Williams as ‘simple, smart, sophisticated – and curators working in the UK today. ‘one of the most with a few surprises’. The result is beautiful exhibition spaces, naturally-lit from above adventurous contemporary and superbly proportioned, and a dramatic central public area in board-marked art venues in the country’. concrete. The classic listed terracotta façade has been fully renovated and a 12 Vaughan Street, Llandudno, LL30 1AB brand new rear elevation in black concrete +44 (0)1492 879 201 and gold metal gives a striking contrast of old and new. Its regeneration impact www.mostyn.org has already led to the empty next-door Funders: Arts Council of Wales, Conwy County building being turned into artists’ studios. Borough Concil Arts Service, Llandudno Town Council Since 1895, Newlyn Art Gallery has been TatePlus Network TatePlus Network presenting important exhibitions of contemporary art to audiences in from its base in this small fishing village. Better to reflect the changing interests of both artists and audiences, the gallery re-launched in 2007, following a modest capital expansion at its existing site and the acquisition and redevelopment of a new space, The Exchange in Penzance, 15 minutes’ walk away. These two, multi- award-winning, venues now provide artists and visitors with world-class Above: The Exchange facade, incorporating interactive light work by artist Peter Freeman, photo Peter Freeman facilities and a programme that celebrates Below: New education room, Newlyn Art Gallery, photo Alan Williams the best of contemporary practice emerging in the region, alongside work by national and international artists. Since the re-launch, audience LOCAL VOLUNTEERING AND PRIDE LIE AT THE HEART OF THE ORGANISATION figures have grown by The gallery has a very close working approximately 10% year relationship with its immediate community, 29 on year, with no sign of best exemplified by our work with a team 30 of around 50 local volunteers, who lead that trend diminishing. on our front of house services and support our fundraising, exhibitions and education NEW GALLERY PROMPTS NEW activities. Our volunteers inform much of our BUSINESSES IN PENZANCE audience development work and play a vital role in embedding the organisation in the Since redevelopment, the organisation has local context. had a profound impact on the local economy, prompting in particular the regeneration of a Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange’s previously neglected area close to the centre involvement in the Plus Tate network has of Penzance, with many new businesses had a profound impact on the work of the relocating there. In the first summer after our gallery, in particular supporting our business re-launch, it was calculated that the inaugural planning through peer to peer contact, during exhibition attracted £2.3m to the local an exceptionally difficult period for publicly economy, equivalent to almost 50% of funded organisations. the capital expenditure on the projects. Newlyn, New Road, Newlyn, TR18 5PZ +44 (0)1736 363715, The Exchange, Princes Street, Penzance, TR18 2NL +44 (0)1736 363715, www.newlynartgallery.co.uk Funders: Arts Council England, Cornwall Council Plus TatePlus Network LOCALLY POPULAR – TatePlus Network INTERNATIONALLY RESPECTED

Our Learning programme (with schools, families and community groups) and our public programme of lectures, conferences, film screenings and performances (delivered in partnership with the two Nottingham universities) aspire to situate the art of today across subject areas and life experiences. We aim to be a contemporary art centre that is locally popular and internationally respected, Above: Nottingham Contemporary Galleries, Gert where people can think things differently. and Uwe Tobias Exhibition, photo Alan Fletcher Left: Nottingham Contemporary, photo Richard Bryant The highly acclaimed building, in the centre of Nottingham, was designed by Caruso St John at a cost of £20 million and funded by Nottingham City Council, Arts Council England, National Lottery, EMDA, ERDF and a private benefactor. The building comprises four gallery spaces, a large space for events, 31 education spaces, a café and a shop. It is one of the largest centres for contemporary 32 art without a collection in England. 240,000 people visited Nottingham Contemporary in its first ten months (the annual target is 200,000). Nottingham Contemporary opened in The partnership with Tate has November 2009 with the first survey of The partnership with Tate has offered David Hockney’s formative years, 1960 invaluable advocacy. It was key to the offered invaluable advocacy. It to 1968, combined with LA artist Frances success of our Hockney exhibition, and has was key to the success of our Stark’s first exhibition at a public gallery in facilitated the development of a strong, the UK. We often simultaneously present collaborative network of leading regional Hockney exhibition, and has two solo exhibitions of artists from different contemporary art spaces. facilitated the development generations who together make an exciting dialogue. In 2010-2012, these include Diane of a strong, collaborative Arbus and Gert & Uwe Tobias, Jack Goldstein network of leading regional and Anne Collier and Huang Yong Ping and Wael Shawky. We have also held large scale, contemporary art spaces. self-generated group exhibitions - Star City, which looked at how the future was imagined Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB under communism, and Uneven Geographies, +44 (0)115 948 9750 which considered artists’ responses to globalisation. Our exhibitions are journeys www.nottinghamcontemporary.org from the familiar to the unfamiliar. Funders: Arts Council England, Nottingham City Council

The Pier Arts Centre is a small gallery TatePlus Network THE GALLERY’S RE-LAUNCH TatePlus Network on the waterfront of Stromness, the LEADS TO REGENERATION main ferry port for the islands of Orkney off the northern coast of In 2007, the gallery re-launched itself having . The gallery is home to a undertaken a major renovation that included small but notable collection of British the addition of a new building, which has twentieth century art that includes unified the Centre and provided significant works by Barbara Hepworth, Ben new exhibition rooms and improved access. Nicholson, and others. The sensitive remodelling of the Pier Arts Centre has enhanced the conservation area of Stromness, which has subsequently undergone its own regeneration. The Centre gained a number of architectural awards Above: Pier Arts Centre gallery spaces showing the Collection, including the Royal Incorporation of Architects including works by Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, Alfred Wallis and John Wells, photo Ioana Marinescu. in Scotland Award for the Best New Building Below: The Pier Arts Centre buildings at night following the refurbishment in 2007 by Reiach and Hall Architects, photo Alistair Peebles in Scotland. Contemporary art works have been added to the new Pier Arts Centre through its participation in the National Collecting Scheme for Scotland and works by Sean 33 The Centre opened in 1979 to house the Scully, Camilla Løw and Douglas Gordon, collection of Margret Gardiner (1904 – 2005) among others, now complement and extend 34 and occupies historic buildings that were the aesthetic legacy of the original collection. previously used by the Hudson’s Bay Company. Connecting to the network of galleries that Beyond its collection, the gallery presents a make up the Plus Tate partnership offers broad programme of exhibitions that reflect the Pier Arts Centre an unprecedented local and international developments in art. opportunity that, besides improving the Past exhibitions have profiled work by Sol work of the Centre through access to the LeWitt, Victoria Morton, Ian Hamilton Finlay, experience of its peers, will bring a gallery at Julie Roberts and Bill Viola. the edge of the country into a broader focus.

The Centre’s education programme highlights both the collection and changing exhibitions to deliver activities and support to schools and community groups throughout the islands as well as engaging in national developments Beyond its collection, the with higher educational institutions. gallery presents a broad Victoria Street, Stromness, Orkney, KW16 3AA programme of exhibitions that +44 (0)1856 850209 www.pierartscentre.com reflect local and international Funders: Creative Scotland, Esmée Fairbairn developments in art. Foundation, Orkney Islands Council In the first year of opening, Towner TatePlus Network The architecturally acclaimed building TatePlus Network attracted 92,400 visitors and exhibited occupies a dramatic site set back from the the work of 2000 children and young town’s seafront, in the heart of Eastbourne’s people through Outreach and Learning vibrant Cultural Quarter, and includes Programmes. galleries of an international standard, activity rooms, gift shop and a café bar Towner, the contemporary art museum, is with stunning views over the South Downs. Eastbourne’s award-winning new gallery and centre for the visual arts in the South With award-winning programmes of learning East. Towner presents a unique programme and outreach, and a rich programme of of major exhibitions of contemporary and talks, workshops and events for people of historic visual art, alongside displays from the all ages, Towner is engaging, inspiring and internationally renowned Towner Collection. accessible to all. Art materials and free family packs are available at weekends and throughout school holidays, when families are invited to drop in and create some art of their own.

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In the first year of opening, Towner attracted 92,400 visitors and 1,000 14-16 yrs have participated in the Devonshire Park, College Road, ‘Wish You Could Hear’ Eastbourne BN21 4JJ postcard project in +44 (0)1323 434670, www.townereastbourne.org.uk partnership with East Funders: Arts Council England, Eastbourne Sussex Youth Offending Team. Borough Council, East Sussex County Council Plus TatePlus Network VIBRANT, WARM, WELCOMING TatePlus Network AND OUTWARD FACING

Turner Contemporary encourages, provokes and inspires audiences through an ambitious programme that encompasses the work of artists from Turner to the present day. As an organisation we are vibrant, warm, welcoming and outward facing, able to take artistic risks, to experiment and support the needs of LEARNING PROGRAMMES AS A diverse visitors. DRIVER FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

We aim to develop the gallery into one of the A commitment to learning lies at the heart country’s leading visual arts venues, gaining of Turner Contemporary. Our Learning and a reputation for an artistically challenging Public Programmes concentrate particularly on programme that will appeal to local, regional, engaging harder to reach audiences, creating national and international audiences. By independent visitors over time and ensuring succeeding in this aim, we will draw new that local people feel able to participate visitors to Margate and support the continued and engage in all areas of our work. By regeneration of the town. continuously generating new audiences, Turner Contemporary will drive positive change in our 37 local and regional communities. 38 We see the Plus Tate partnership as a huge support, acting as a platform through which we can share and exchange ideas and information with peer institutions and Left: Turner Contemporary - open in spring 2011, view from Main Sands, photo Imaging Atelier providing welcome access to Tate’s own Right: I never stopped loving you by Tracey Emin expertise, experience and Collection. Below:Learning is at the heart of Turner Contemporary

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attracted 670,000 visitors since 2001 through their Learning Turner Contemporary is a visual arts organisation based in the historic and Public Programmes – seaside town of Margate, Kent, home without a building. for many years to JMW Turner (1775 - 1850). In spring 2011, we will open a Droit House, The Stone Pier, Margate, CT9 1HB spectacular new gallery, designed by +44 (0)1843 294208 David Chipperfield Architects, located on the seafront and inspired by the light and www.turnercontemporary.org.uk views that Turner would have seen. Funders: Arts Council England, Kent County Council Plus TatePlus Network TatePlus Network The Whitworth is a public art gallery, NEW WAYS OF EXPERIENCING founded in 1889 as the first AND GALLERIES gallery in a park. It became part of the Eclectic juxtapositions, from a Flintstones University of Manchester in 1958. We aim wallpaper to Picasso’s Poverty characterise to make our internationally important fine the Whitworth’s collections. Contemporary art, textiles and wallpapers accessible art comes into the collection and sparks new to a wide range of visitors, who come ways of seeing old and new. International in to experience our collections and enjoy outlook, but rooted in Manchester’s history: the art, the building and the green space what matters are the ideas that bring our surrounding us. In 2009, we welcomed works to life and the discussions about art over 170,000 visitors, with 40% of them we have with our visitors. We aim to present coming from outside our region. extraordinary art that asks people to think differently about the world and we like to challenge preconceptions about galleries. Marina Abramovic presents, in 2009, emptied the gallery of all its collections to allow 14 Below: Whitworth Art Gallery Learning is at the heart of all that we do in the Right: Family Activities live artists to perform 4 hours a day for 17 special environment a gallery can offer; not a grueling days. Visitors defied their own - and classroom but a creative laboratory. Annually, our - expectations and lasted the duration. 12,000 school children come to the Gallery 39 This unique experience brought huge acclaim for workshops and formal visits. Some of the as well as new thinking about what the 40 poorest wards in the North West – Moss Side, Whitworth could do. Hulme and Ardwick - are on our doorstep and we place huge emphasis on connecting We want to be thought-provoking and to these very diverse communities, who value irreverent, a gallery that is informed by its the world collections, the wide range of free rich history but which is excited about the activities the Gallery offers and the relaxed culture around us in Manchester today. We environment of a gallery in a park. Going are a green oasis at the heart of our city; forward, we are expanding the Gallery into the open to people, ideas and conversation. park, through a capital programme supported Serious in intent, playful in execution. A by our University and the Heritage Lottery place where good, odd things happen. Fund. This will create two new wings that embrace the park and the communities that use it, creating beautiful new galleries, learning spaces, an art garden and study centre.

The University of Manchester In 2009, we welcomed Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6ER over 170,000 visitors, with +44 (0)161 275 7450 www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk 40% of them coming from Funders: HEFCE, Renaissance in the Regions, outside our region. University of Manchester Wysing Arts Centre is set in 11 acres TatePlus Network For Wysing, the chance to join TatePlus Network of rural Cambridgshire and operates 10 separate buildings including artists’ Plus Tate could not have come studios, a gallery, educational and at a better time and offers a specialist new media facilities, and residential accommodation in its 17th real opportunity both to bring century farmhouse. Wysing operates our work to a wider audience an international residency programme, supports artists working from studios and collaborate and exchange through professional development with our peers. SUPPORT FOR ARTISTS THROUGH programmes and delivers artistic retreats MARKETPLACE AND AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT through a formal partnership with the In 2009, Wysing launched Wysing Arts Royal College of Art’s MA in Curating Contemporary, a programme of curated selling Contemporary Art. exhibitions that platforms emerging artists and brings works to art fairs. The initiative also develops and provides ongoing support to collectives of collectors. Wysing is the regional Right: Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser lead (Eastern) for Arts Council England’s Turning Amphis 2008, photo Mike Cameron Below: Wysing Arts Centre Point strategy for the visual arts and through it is focussing on audience and marketplace ARTISTS AND RURAL COMMUNITIES 41 development by delivering a region-wide WORKING TOGETHER training programme, leading to a multi-venue 42 Wysing foregrounds artistic research by living art fair The Eastern Pavilions, in 2011. artists. This emphasis has enabled artists to test Wysing aims to work with artists at every out new ways of working and led to the creation stage in their careers and recently launched of some extraordinary artworks, created in Wysing Young Artists, a talent development partnership with visitors to the centre. Notable programme for young people wishing to works include a two storey building, Amphis by pursue an artistic career. artists Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser, made out of donated materials and built with For Wysing, the chance to join Plus Tate could the support of 40 volunteers; artists N55’s life- not have come at a better time and offers a size Walking House, developed in collaboration real opportunity both to bring our work to a with families of Traveller origin and powered wider audience and collaborate and exchange by solar energy; and Feature, Shezad Dawood’s with our peers. The structured network that alternative zombie Western filmed with visitors Tate has developed offers a real opportunity to Wysing improvising parts, and later included for a genuine two way process that we are in Altermodern, The Tate Triennial 2009. very much looking forward to starting.

Wysing’s residency programme is the key focus of our work and in recent years Fox Road, Cambridge, CB23 2TX has included, amongst others, artists Asli Çavusoglu, Celine Condorelli, Luca Frei, Andy +44 (0)1954 718 881 Holden, Christodoulos Panayioutou, Bik van www.wysingartscentre.org der Pol and Bedwyr Williams. Funders: Arts Council England, Paul Hamlyn Foundation Plus TatePlus Network About Tate TatePlus Network −− There are four Tate galleries in England. Tate has been a major public success, with an average of seven million visitors per year to our galleries in London, Liverpool and St Ives. −− Tate is now responsible for over 65,000 works of art, with one of the world’s major collections of international 20th and 21st-century art and the world’s leading collection of British Art. −− Tate mounts exhibitions in all our galleries and we regularly tour our loan exhibitions as well as exhibitions drawn from Tate’s Collection in the UK and internationally. −− Tate Online is the UK’s most visited interactive arts entertainment and learning website (www.tate.org.uk), with over 19 million visitors in 2009-10. 100% of Tate’s collection is available online. −− Over ten million additional visitors participate offsite each year – through our loans programme, touring exhibitions and displays. 43

−− 650,000 people each year take part in onsite and offsite learning programmes 44 and activities. 75% of our visitors come to see the permanent Collection. −− The number of Tate Members has more than doubled since 2000, making it the biggest arts membership community in the UK at 200,000 individuals. −− The majority of Tate’s income is self-generated; in 2009-10, 60% of revenues were sourced from sponsorship, donations and commercial activities. Clockwise from top: , Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate Britain, photo Tate Acknowledgements TatePlus Network The pilot phase of the programme, known as ’Tate Connects’, was made possible through the support of many people. We would like to thank Vivienne Bennett, Director of Visual Art Strategy, Arts Council England, for her encouragement. The Arts Council funding allowed us to begin. The grant from the Cultural Leadership Programme enabled us to bring the network together for a course of organisational and leadership development that made a cohort of our separate institutions. We are grateful to Future Considerations for delivering the programme and to John Holden for keeping a watching brief and coaching us on the characteristics of networks, Noelle Goldman-Jacob, former Head of Tate Connects, helped shape and guide the initiative that has been managed by Marie Bak Mortensen since January 2009. Tate staff members have responded with generosity and, in particular, we wish to thank the founding members of the network, with Tate, Godfrey Worsdale, BALTIC, Gateshead; Kath Wood, firstsite, Colchester; Simon Wallis, The Hepworth Wakefield; Jonathan Watkins and Judith Harry, Ikon, Birmingham; Michael Harrison, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Kate Brindley, mima, Middlesbrough; James Green, Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange, Penzance; Alex Farquharson, Nottingham Contemporary; Matthew Rowe, Towner, Eastbourne; Victoria Pomery, Turner Contemporary, Margate. We 46 would also like to thank Mark Osterfield, Executive Director and Martin Clark, Artistic Director, Tate St Ives, for their participation in the Cultural Leadership Programme alongside partners. In expanding the network to Scotland, we have gained from the advice of John Leighton, Director General, National Galleries of Scotland; Simon Groom, Director of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Galleries of Scotland; Phillip Long, Senior Curator, Scottish of Modern Art; and Amanda Catto, Head of Visual Arts at Creative Scotland. In Wales, we have received guidance from Mike Tooby, Director of Learning, Programmes & Development, National Museums of Wales and David Alston, Arts Director, Arts Council of Wales, who came up with the original name of the initiative. We are delighted to welcome the new partners: Tom Trevor, Arnolfini, Bristol; Dave Moutrey, Cornerhouse, Manchester; Jenni Spencer-Davies, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Adam Sutherland and Alistair Hudson, Grizedale Arts, Cumbria; Martin Barlow, Mostyn, Llandudno; Neil Firth, The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney; , Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Donna Lynas, Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn (Cambridge). ‘The Plus Tate partnership has been TatePlus Network ‘Connecting to the network of galleries TatePlus Network beneficial in assisting BALTIC to that make up the Plus Tate partnership benchmark its plans and practices; offers The Pier Arts Centre an fundamentally, the wider collaboration unprecedented opportunity that, besides has created a forum in which individual improving the work of the Centre through and group issues can be shared, and access to the experience of its peers, will constructive ideas can be embedded bring a gallery at the edge of the country across the sector more quickly.’ into a broader focus.’ BALTIC The Pier Arts Centre

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