ANNUAL REVIEW 2019 Jerwood Is a Family of Philanthropic Organisations Jerwood Foundation, Jerwood Arts and Jerwood Space

ANNUAL REVIEW 2019 Jerwood is a family of philanthropic organisations Jerwood Foundation, Jerwood Arts and Jerwood Space.

United in a commitment to support, nurture and reward excellence and dedication in the visual and performing arts.

Since 1991, Jerwood has channelled over £105 million in capital and revenue funding in support of the arts in the UK.

Opposite: Craigie Aitchison RA (1926 – 2009) Crucifixion, 1994, Jerwood Collection © The Estate of Craigie Aitchison/Bridgeman Images On loan to Hereford Cathedral, shown hanging in the crossing. Photo: Mike Fear Opposite: John Wells (1907 – 2000) Vista, 1955, Jerwood Collection When the winds of © The Estate of John Wells. All rights reserved DACS 2020 change blow, some people build walls, others build windmills Chinese proverb

Chairman’s The year was challenging with so many by Cambridge City Council for the We will always value greatly the personal financial and political global uncertainties best new, refurbished, extended or commitment, enthusiasm and individual and the inevitable volatilities in financial conserved building in the city centre contributions made by all the people who markets. This is not the place to review since the designation of the Cambridge work within Jerwood. We are very conscious these factors and dangers which make Conservation Area in 1969. This was of how much time and commitment is given decisions so difficult. Jerwood cannot presented to the Jerwood Library at Trinity by the Trustees of the Jerwood Charitable Review be exempt from such headwinds Hall, Cambridge in June. Foundation, the Directors of Jerwood Space, clouding any conclusive review and and the members of our governing Council ALAN GRIEVE CBE the consequences which inhibited our The second was a new initiative to set in Jersey, all of whom play a constructive decisions during the year. alongside our earlier Painting Prize to part in our affairs. celebrate the art of printmaking with two At the beginning of the year we realised it new prizes. One for emerging artists and Although Jerwood is comparatively small would be somewhat of a difficult and fallow the larger one, Jerwood London Original in relation to larger trusts and foundations one compared with many earlier years. Our Print Fair Prize at the Royal Academy of Arts, which support the arts within their wider priority was to preserve our capital funds increased from £2,500 to £10,000. The charitable activities, our sole aim and together with the income levels and cash prize was awarded at the Royal Academy purpose is to support, nurture and reward flows which we receive. This was achieved Summer Exhibition to Bella Easton (see excellence and commitment in the visual with capital performance of our fund at pages 4–5 of Executive Directors’ Review). and performing arts, with a particular focus 15.9% and our income intact. on young people and early-career artists. Jerwood Space has continued to prosper In November 2019 we completed the robustly, as one of, if not the best and At this juncture of continuing global, human, physical repossession of our art collection most sought-after rehearsal space in economic and political uncertainties from Jerwood Gallery in Hastings. The London. This success has pressed home and instability, it is impossible to predict collection is now an important and valuable the need to consider increasing the major what lies ahead as it may affect Jerwood. asset of the Foundation and our plans for it spaces available to producers in all the However, we believe that one way forward are reported on page 7. performing arts. for us is to strengthen our existing relationships and partnerships, to be We also made the important decision to The yearly performance of our investment open to opportunities and to maintain an monitor the Jerwood name (our brand) funds is reflected in the capital and entrepreneurial spirit of enquiry and action. more closely based upon our intellectual revenue grants which Jerwood has made property rights attached to our earlier in support of the arts since 1991. This We should remain true to the ethos of capital projects and grants. This will support now stands in excess of £105 the Foundation bearing the name of John be an ongoing process. We believe the million. We are conscious of the dedicated Jerwood MC. Above all else to be certain credibility and recognition attached to and professional stewardship of our funds and unwavering in enhancing our private our name increases the value of our grants which continues under the management philanthropy and our place as effective and support. The name has grown in of Waverton Investment Management in philanthropists in the arts. recognition and importance since 1991 London and Lloyd George Management when John Jerwood died. Our name and (HK) Limited in Hong Kong. As reported grants in the arts are an important part of above, in 2019 our investments in Asia, the memento to him. Europe and USA collectively returned an annual performance of 15.9%. This is I am pleased to report two individual against world market performances of the events in 2019. The first was the award ARC GBP Steady Growth PCI Index at 15%.

2 Jerwood Annual Review 2019 Jerwood Foundation 3 Executive Directors’ Review PHILIPPA HOGAN-HERN LARA WARDLE

Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon in the Jerwood Gallery, Natural History Museum, London 2019 received two million visitors May 2019– January 2020. Photo: Trustees of the Natural History Museum

We believe that Jerwood’s impact is Through the ongoing funding support of lithograph is illustrated on the inside back of over 400 recordings, contributing to Anniversary of Jerwood New Playwrights. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) Georgia O’Keeffe greatest when all of our efforts and Jerwood Arts the important relationships cover of this review. the creation of a more complete picture Such attendances and involvement provide resources are concentrated in wide- with many of our major capital projects of the art world and its relationships and important support and understanding, ranging philanthropic support of the visual continue to flourish: most notably the For the Jerwood London Original Print Fair personalities. ensuring that there is consistency in and performing arts. Collaboration seems Jerwood Young Artists at Glyndebourne, Prize, Jerwood Foundation joined LOPF delivering Jerwood’s mission throughout more important and relevant than ever in a programme that nurtures exceptionally in its existing support of an annual print Jerwood Family the Jerwood Family. today’s uncertain world in which the impact talented singers from the Chorus and has prize awarded to an artist working in print Working closely, our individual roles and of the past decade’s funding cuts are still been running since 2005; Royal Court in any medium and exhibiting in the Royal responsibilities within Jerwood ensure that The priority for Jerwood Collection during being felt across the UK. Theatre’s Jerwood New Playwrights Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. The our philanthropic mission and purpose 2019 was to ensure its professional removal programme which celebrated its 25th prize money was enhanced by Jerwood from is maintained. As reported by Alan from Jerwood Gallery (renamed Hastings This review focuses on and underlines the Anniversary this year, having supported £2,500 to £10,000, bringing it in line with Grieve, responsibility for protecting and Contemporary). As this was not completed importance of the collective power of the 72 outstanding playwrights in the staging the Jack Goldhill Award for Sculpture. The enhancing the Jerwood name as a hallmark until the end of the year, we did not share arts; the many collaborations within and of 87 challenging and robust plays; and judging panel included Helen Rosslyn and of excellence is an all important part of the collection as widely as we might have across the Jerwood Family of organisations; the LSO Jerwood Composer+, now in its Gordon Cooke (Directors of LOPF), Philippa what we do, not least because it matters wished. However, as Lara Wardle has and the opportunities that have been taken third edition, which supports early-career Hogan-Hern (Executive Director, Jerwood) to the beneficiaries of our funding and our reported on pages 6 –7, this gave us the to deepen established relationships and to composers in programming, planning and and Rebecca Salter PRA (artist and President funding partners. At the end of 2019 we opportunity to plan the future strategy of the find new ways forward in cohesive support delivering chamber-scale concerts in the of the Royal Academy from December started work on the redesign of our website collection as well as reassessing its existence of the arts. Jerwood Hall at LSO St Luke’s. 2019). Christopher Le Brun PPRA (artist and jerwood.org by Artlogic. Launched in March and importance in the public domain. President of the Royal Academy 2011–2019), 2020, the image-led content reinforces Celebrating the Ongoing Legacy Jerwood Print Prizes presented the inaugural prize to Bella Easton the Jerwood brand and what it stands for Unfettered and without bureaucracy, of Jerwood’s Capital Projects As reported in the Chairman’s Review, for Angel Heart, a large-scale lithograph on and brings to life the legacy of the capital Jerwood has sought its own culture of Between 1998 and 2012, the Foundation a shared passion for supporting the porcelain panels. It is now hanging in its new projects carrying the Jerwood name. arts philanthropy as John Jerwood would widened its support for the visual and future of printmaking and celebrating home in Newport Beach, California. have wished; private, independent, performing arts from solely funding the scope which this expressive and Throughout the year in her role as a opportunistic and entrepreneurial. It revenue projects to giving significant diverse medium offers for innovation Artists’ Lives, British Library director of Jerwood Space and Trustee is these characteristics that underpin To create one’s world in any of the arts, courage the takes of in any world one’s create To financial support and the Jerwood and experimentation, resulted in a new We were pleased to rekindle an old of Jerwood Charitable Foundation, now Jerwood’s imaginative and responsive name to 18 capital projects across art partnership with the London Original relationship, with our renewed support for known as Jerwood Arts, Philippa Hogan- support for artists working across the forms and throughout the UK. The Print Fair (LOPF) in the creation of two Artists’ Lives, the important oral history Hern has seen at first hand Jerwood Arts’ visual and performing arts. Working ongoing legacy of these capital Print Prizes. project by National Life Stories at the British support of the visual and performing arts independently, but sharing the same projects and the close partnerships Library. Previously the Foundation has being put into practice, including: the mission, the members of the Jerwood that they underscore was made The Jerwood Printmaking Today Prize is supported recordings of Craigie Aitchison UK Dance Showcase launch at the V&A Family will continue to encourage and clear this year as we celebrated the a new initiative in a tripartite partnership RA (1926–2009) and Callum Innes (b.1962); Museum of Childhood; LSO Jerwood enable artists to create the best art in their 20th anniversaries of the Jerwood with LOPF and Printmaking Today. Its focus both winners of the Jerwood Painting Prize Composer+ Daniel Kidane’s lunchtime chosen artform; to develop and engage Library, Trinity Hall, Cambridge and the is on identifying emerging artists who (1994 and 2002, respectively) as well as concert in the Jerwood Hall at LSO St audiences and widen access to the arts. Jerwood Gallery at Natural History are excelling in the field of printmaking, the recording of ceramicist Richard Slee Luke’s; the Glyndebourne Jerwood Young Museum; and marked the 10th nominated by exhibitors at the LOPF. The (b.1946). Artists’ Recital at Brighton Festival; anniversaries of the Jerwood School of inaugural prize was awarded to Chika the launch of Jerwood Arts’ Toolkit for Design, Oakham School; Jerwood Kiln Osaka who was nominated by her gallery, In late 2019 we confirmed a further employers, Socio-economic Diversity and Studio, Snape Maltings (then Aldeburgh Hanga Ten. Osaka received £2,500 and commitment towards three voice inclusion in the Arts at the Manchester Music) and Jerwood DanceHouse, a profile article in the Autumn issue of recordings. They will be announced in International Festival; and the Royal Court jerwood.org DanceEast, Ipswich. Printmaking Today. Osaka’s winning 2020 and added to the valuable archive Theatre’s reception to mark the 25th @JerwoodF

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Sofia Mitsola (b.1992) in her studio with Tangle, 2019 (left) and The Evil Eye, 2019 (right), which was acquired for the Jerwood Collection. Director’s Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Review LARA WARDLE

Alan Grieve writes in his Chairman’s Review through different initiatives, including Recent acquisitions, which are illustrated Britain, currently showing at Barber Welbeck estate in Nottinghamshire. This that 2019 was somewhat of a fallow year displays and exhibitions in Hastings, on pages 8 and 9, demonstrate the Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham residency will take the form of a series of for the Foundation and also Jerwood has enabled us to learn more about our direction of our collecting: etchings by until 17 May: drawn predominately from exhibitions, each looking at the whole of Collection, however this momentary collection and how it can become an Gerald Brockhurst RA (1890–1978), David Jerwood Collection, the exhibition takes its Jerwood Collection through a different pause presented an opportunity. It offered increasingly valuable resource in the Hockney RA (b.1937) and Augustus John inspiration from Linear Construction in Space curatorial lens. breathing space and time to reflect on future. Our 2019 loaning programme RA (1878–1961) increased our holding No. 1 by Naum Gabo (1890–1977), acquired the collection: past and present. Also, included international loans to Museum within the medium of prints, which we by the Barber in 2017, and takes a fresh These important exhibitions will enable us importantly, what its future might hold; MORE in the Netherlands which gave us recognise is under-represented currently; look at artists working in and around St Ives to share the collection with new audiences and in turn, how we should think about our an insight into loaning further afield. We and we also have bought an impressive during and after the Second World War. in the Midlands and demonstrate our collecting going forward. were pleased to be able to loan two works painting by early-career artist Sofia The exhibition’s interpretation includes conscious decision to place art regionally. to their comprehensive and wide-ranging Mitsola (b.1992) whose work was shown sound recordings from the British Library’s In November 2019, the final 117 works from exhibition, For Real: British Realists in the in Jerwood Solo Presentations at Jerwood Artists’ Lives archive, selected to illustrate I hope they will bring much enjoyment and Jerwood Collection were removed from 1920s and 1930s, as well as The Blue Towel, Space in 2019. We hope to continue to the themes of the exhibition including pleasure to visitors. Jerwood Gallery in Hastings (now renamed 1982–83 by Euan Uglow (1932–2000) to identify and purchase pieces by other questions about the nature of influence. Hastings Contemporary), and joined Euan Uglow: Painting Perception, which outstanding contemporary painters. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life everyday of dust the soul the from away Art washes the other works already held in storage. attracted 36,000 visitors during its three- This exhibition includes two new Jerwood This gave us the chance to undertake month run. During the year we started planning the Collection acquisitions (illustrated on jerwoodcollection.online some much-needed housekeeping: forward strategy for the collection and I pages 2 and 8) which we have not loaned @jerwoodcollection all works were condition checked and It was very satisfying that Craigie was able to announce some of these plans previously: Vista painted in 1955 by John re-photographed and information Aitchison’s Crucifixion, 1994, which won in the spectacular Jerwood Gallery in the Wells (1907–2000), and originally held subsequently digitised onto newly the first Jerwood Painting Prize, returned Natural History Museum in September, in the critic J.P Hodin’s collection; and an commissioned cloud-based systems. to Hereford Cathedral in September: it including a new partnership with Paintings untitled oil and sand work dating from 1958 is now hanging in the crossing, and in the in Hospitals, a charity that aims to use by Sandra Blow RA (1925–2006). Our extensive national loaning and words of the Dean of Hereford, the Very world-class art to benefit the UK's health. exhibition programme has been Revd. Michael Tavinor, contributing to the Later in the autumn of 2020 the collection increasing year on year since we decided ‘spirituality of the cathedral’. It is a much- Our first major exhibition of the new will travel further into the heart of to place the collection in the public loved reunion. (See inside cover.) era is Cornwall as Crucible: Modernity England for a year-long major residency domain in 2007. Sharing the collection and Internationalism in Mid-century at the Harley Gallery, set within the

6 Jerwood Annual Review 2019 Jerwood Collection 7 cquisitions A

Clockwise from above:

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst RA (1890–1978) Una, 1929 etching printed in tone, on laid paper, 21.5 × 16 cm © Richard Woodward

David Hockney RA (b.1933) A Wooded Landscape from Illustrations for Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, 1969 Etching, 61.7 × 44.8cm Edition of 100 Portfolio and 100 Book-A © David Hockney

Michael Ayrton (1921–1975) Encounter No. 1, 1947 oil on hardboard, 20.5 ×14.5 cm

For full details Jerwood of Collection works see jerwoodcollection.online © Estate of Michael Ayrton

8 Jerwood Annual Review 2019 Jerwood Collection 9 Opposite: Jasmine Lee-Jones’ seven methods of killing This year was an exciting new chapter for developed a range of different approaches; kylie jenner in Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at Jerwood Arts as we began to implement experimenting with calls for entries, Royal Court, 2019. our Strategic Plan for 2019–22 with a nominations and independent selection Directed by Milli Bhatia and performed by renewed mission to support the most panels, alongside our own expertise Tia Bannon and Danielle Vitalis (featured). Image: Helen Murray promising early-career artists, curators to tailor opportunities to different art and producers from across the UK. We form needs. believe the best way to do this is by offering artists well-supported opportunities to In the year, over half of grants made went take risks on their own terms, and we directly to early-career artists within the have been taking risks too, listening and first 10 years of establishing their practice: responding to artists’ needs with a suite of we awarded 47 Jerwood Bursaries, and new approaches. 15 projects were supported through the Jerwood New Work Fund. Perhaps most significant was anew approach to grant making with the launch Demand for the Development of three new funding programmes: Programme Fund, with 278 applications received, showed just how urgent is the Jerwood Bursaries for individuals’ need for expert artist development. Our professional development activities. final portfolio of 20 specialist programmes range from world-renowned leaders in Chairman Jerwood New Work Fund for the creation their fields to newer, innovative companies. and making of new projects. All of them share approaches we have long valued: a commitment to paying artists; Development Programme Fund properly resourced time for R&D; listening for organisations to offer significant and holding a space for experimentation & Director’s opportunities for artists, curators and away from commercial pressures. producers to excel. The portfolio will support artistic This year we received over 1,600 development programmes in visual arts, applications, a powerful response which sound art, new media and digital and in Review not only reflected our national profile as an circus at a significant level, fulfilling our aim imaginative, independent and responsible to broaden our activity and disciplines. We TIM EYLES, CHAIRMAN funder, but also the scale of the demand for are committing £1m to these 20 grantees LILLI GEISSENDORFER, DIRECTOR funding across the visual, literary, musical over the next two years benefitting at least and performing arts. Our new commitment 128 outstanding early-career individuals. to offering feedback was enthusiastically Many of the organisations are new to us received, confirming the value of providing including Milk Presents and Imaginate, tailored, written project and application four are programmes with longstanding development support to increase relationships with us: the Royal Court applicants’ confidence and skills. Theatre, Glyndebourne, Gate Theatre and Young Vic. We also piloted new decision-making processes, an important part of which As part of our Strategic Plan 2019–22, we was the appointment of over 70 Artist pledged to review continually how we work Advisers: independent established in response to artists’ needs, and our agility artists, producers and curators from all has enabled us to respond during the year disciplines nationally, many of whom to feedback in two significant ways: firstly, are Jerwood alumni, including: Dan Daw, inviting all individual applicants to include Kevin Le Gendre, Amber Massie-Blomfield, an appropriate fee for their own time, and Hetain Patel, Heather Phillipson and Clare secondly, encouraging applicants to apply Twomey. They worked with us in reviewing for an additional £250 for access and/or applications and brought a wider range care costs. We were also proud to be a of expertise and insight into the selection Living Wage Foundation Funder, supporting process. Their support has increased the arts sector to create more sustainable our reach and strengthened our national conditions for excellence to thrive. networks significantly; the percentage

510 of applications from London is slowly This year our exhibitions and events reducing, and the range of art forms and programme in the galleries at Jerwood backgrounds of applicants is widening. Space received unprecedented national Artists, curators attention. With significant new tour All our opportunities are now offered partnerships with g39 (Cardiff), Bluecoat and producers and online, meeting a clear demand for artist- (Liverpool) and BALTIC Centre for centred, streamlined processes that do Contemporary Art (Gateshead), Survey 108 organisations not waste applicants’ time, and allow us attracted audiences of 90,000, becoming to make better informed decisions about our most successful exhibition of new work supported in 2019 where to invest our resources. We also by early-career artists to date.

10 Jerwood Annual Review 2019 Jerwood Arts 11 Top: Forest + Found The Jerwood/FVU Awards 2019 films We are incredibly proud of our association (Max Bainbridge and Abigail Booth) featured by Richard Whitby and Webb-Ellis were with some of the UK’s most significant artist with their work The Subjective Element, 2019. critically lauded, and our major biennial development programmes as they discover Commissioned for Jerwood Makers Open 2019. initiative showcasing the excellence of and nurture some of the most outstanding Image: Hydar Dewachi makers in the visual arts, Jerwood Makers new voices. Highlights from 2019 include: Jasmine Lee-Jones, the 75th Jerwood New Bottom: Open 2019, commissioned five artists Keiken + George Jasper Stone, to push the boundaries of their practice. Playwright at the Royal Court Theatre, who Feel My Metaverse, 2019. Their exhibition opened in London before won the Alfred Fagon Award, the Critics Commissioned for Jerwood Collaborate! 2019. touring to The National Centre for Craft and Circle Award and the Charles Wintour Image: Anna Arca Design (Sleaford), and will tour throughout Award for the Most Promising Playwright 2020 to Manchester Art Gallery and 20–21 in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards Visual Arts Centre (Scunthorpe). for her extraordinary, formally inventive play seven methods of killing kylie jenner; and Jerwood Solo Presentations 2019 Daniel Kidane’s (LSO Composer+ 2018/19) showcased new work by three exceptional composition Woke was performed at the early-career artists including Sofia Last Night of the Proms. Mitsola, whose work has been acquired by Jerwood Collection (see page 7 and Raymond Antrobus (Jerwood Compton cover). During Frieze Week we opened Poetry Fellow 2017– 8) won every major Jerwood Collaborate!, a major new poetry prize with his collection The initiative exploring the power and potential Perseverance, including the Ted Hughes of collaborative and collective artistic Prize, Folio Prize and Young Writers Prize. practice. Such non-hierarchical work is The Arts Council Collection acquired work overlooked and under-supported within by Imran Perretta (Jerwood/FVU Awards traditional institutional frameworks, and 2018) and Flo Brooks (Survey); three yet is of substantial importance to artists alumni were shortlisted for the Jarman today, a fact highlighted by the sharing Award 2019 with one of them, Hetain Patel

m of the 2019 Turner Prize. Commissioning, (Artist Adviser), going on to win; Onyeka curating and developing artists through our Igwe (Jerwood Staging Series 2019) won the exhibitions and events programme remains 2019 Berwick New Cinema Award. critical to keep our activities grounded in the reality of artists’ lived experience. The work we do and its impact relies on invigorating partnerships, and we would Our sector-leading Weston Jerwood like to thank all those who have been part Creative Bursaries thrived in 2019. The of our new chapter over the past year. We third edition of the programme came to are also indebted to our friends across the an end, having successfully supported Jerwood Family, particularly the Jerwood the development and employment of 40 Space team and The Gentlemen Baristas outstanding Fellows taking the total to 125 with whom we collaborate to provide since 2010. Gathering together everything the best experience for visitors to our we have learnt, in July we launched Socio- exhibitions and events. Economic Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts: a Toolkit for Employers in partnership with the Bridge Group. The guide has quickly become a key resource for the sector and a powerful advocacy tool.

The momentum behind the Creative Bursaries Programme continues and we successfully secured £1.5m in funding from Arts Council England’s Transforming Leadership Fund, Arts Council of Wales, jerwoodarts.org Creative Scotland, Art Fund, Garfield @JerwoodArts Weston Foundation and PRS Foundation for a remodelled fourth edition 2020-2022 and two new pilot programmes focused on independent leadership and curators as leaders. £1.79 was spent on charitable activites in 2019

12 Jerwood Annual Review 2019 Jerwood Arts 13 Development Programme Fund Outstanding artist development programmes set to take place 2020–21 across the UK:

Apples and Snakes: Jerwood Arts | Poetry in Performance

Cheltenham Festivals: Jerwood Jazz Encounters

Common: The Common Playwriting

Year in Review Programme

Dance4: Re-Framing Dance

Fierce: Fierce Further: Jerwood Commissions

FACT: Jerwood FACT Fellowship Programme

g39: Jerwood UNITe

Glyndebourne: Jerwood Young Artist Programme

Jerwood Makers Survey Jerwood Jerwood Heart n Soul: Don’t Step On My Burger 2019 Chris Alton; Simeon Barclay; Hazel Brill; Open 2019 Flo Brooks; Emma Cousin; Joe Fletcher Compton Poetry Bursaries Imaginate: Jerwood Fellowships Mark Corfield-Moore; Forest + Orr; Tom Goddard; Ashley Holmes; Round one: Sharon Adams; Sara Fellowships Milk Presents: Making An Entrance Found; Lucie Gledhill; Bethan Lloyd Lindsey Mendick; Nicole Morris; Milly Anstis; Jo Bannon; Sophie Blagden; Worthington; Tana West. Peck; Anna Raczynski; Will Sheridan Jr; 2019–20 Phoebe Davies; Emma Dove; Sarah National Centre for Circus Arts: Duffy; Ali Eisa; Jane Hayes Greenwood; This seventh edition launched at Rae-Yen Song; Frank Wasser. Jerwood Circus Residencies Hafsah Aneela Bashir; Anthony Joseph; Fox Irving; Roy Mcfarlane; Louise Jerwood Space in June 2019 and toured Launched at Jerwood Space in Yomi Sode. Orwin; Siôn Parkinson; Berry Patten; to National Centre for Craft and Design Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange: October 2018 and toured to g39 Derica Shields; Nastassja Simensky; (Sleaford). Continuing to Manchester Funded and run by Jerwood Arts, with The Jerwood Newlyn Residency (Cardiff), Bluecoat (Liverpool), and Jamie Starboisky; Debris Stevenson; Art Gallery; 20-21 Visual Arts Centre support from Arts Council England and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Dharma Taylor; Fern Thomas; Joseph Prime Cut Productions: Reveal 2.0 (Scunthorpe), and Torre Abbey Museum the Joseph Compton bequest. (Gateshead) in 2019. Toonga; Katy Weir; Jen White; Nicola (Devon) in 2020/21. Accompanying Woodham. Royal Court Theatre: Jerwood New curatorial development programme with Playwrights Art Fund support. Jerwood/FVU Jerwood New Somerset House Trust: Sonic Terrains Round two: Katy Bentham; Paul Awards 2019: Work Fund Chapellier; Jasmine Gardosi; Sara The Gate Theatre: Jerwood Designers Green; Sammy Gooch; Rowland Hill; Jerwood Staging Heather Agyepong; Kat Anderson; Programme Going, Gone Chloe Knibbs; Winnie M Li; Sam Rhiannon Armstrong; JJ Bibby; Phoebe Webb-Ellis; Richard Whitby. Metz; Laura Murphy; Sofia Niazi; The Tetley: The Tetley Jerwood Series 2019 Davies; Ian Giles; Gwen Hales; Mina Emily Nicholl; Ruby-Ann Patterson; Commissions Seán Elder with Kirsty Russell; Onyeka Launched at Jerwood Space in Heydari-Waite; Idle Women (Rachel Katarzyna Perlak; Dan Ryder; Igwe; Rebecca Moss; AJ Stockwell. April 2019 and toured to SALT (Istanbul) Anderson and Cis O’Boyle); Sabba Khan; Hannah Saunders; Rae-Yen Song; The Young Vic: Jerwood Assistant This page: and Phoenix (Leicester). Lanre Malaolu; Alice Malseed; Fernanda Laura Sweeney; Benjamin Tassie; Sita Directors Program Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellows Muñoz-Newsome; Rebecca Solomon; 2019–20. Thomas; Andy Truscott; Angharad Laura Wilson. Whitstable Biennale: Jerwood WB Hafsah Aneela Bashir, Anthony Joseph and Williams; Abbas Zahedi. Yomi Sode. Supported by Jerwood Arts and Artist Attachments Arts Council England Jerwood Solo Image: Mirren Kessling Presentations Jerwood Writer Opposite: Co-commissions Hetain Patel’s Don’t Look at the Finger, 2019 in Residence 2019 PRS Foundation’s Composers’ Fund 2017. Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom; Kitty Clark; Featured: Victoria Shulungu and Freddie Gwen Burlington; Joseph Constable. 2020–21 Opoku-Addaie. Sofia Mitsola. Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella Activate: Inside Out Dorset 2020, with Manchester Art Gallery and QUAD. Lorna Rees, Dave Young Supported by Arts Council England. Initial research supported by DanceXchange’s For full details of Jerwood Arts Pacitti Company, SPILL Festival of Jerwood Choreographic Research Project. activities see jerwoodarts.org Performance 2020, Sonia Hughes

14 Jerwood Annual Review 2019 Jerwood Arts 15 place to rehearse. place Cosifantutte rehearsals – a uniquely friendly, supportive & conducive staff @JerwoodSpace for @COTheMozartistshosting Classical Opera and The Mozartists Belated the to thanks wonderful all @IanPageMozart Page, # Ian Conductor Director and Artistic of A recent study by Society of London Headlong’s touring Richard III, directed by Theatre reinforced London’s claim to be the John Haidar, opened the newly refurbished world theatre capital, based on variety of Alexandra Palace theatre space and, choice and volume of attendance. Whilst from slightly further afield, Denmark’s the claim may well be true, 2019 continued Hamletscenen company rehearsed their a trend we have been noticing over the production of Richard III before taking it to past few years, and that is the growing Elsinore Castle. significance of theatre outside of the capital. A marked number of the shows We hosted three shows going to rehearsed at Jerwood Space through the Chichester Festival Theatre this year. year were either co-produced by theatres Holly Race Roughan directed Cordelia outside of London, or rehearsed specifically Lynn’s Hedda Tesman, a restructured to tour around the country, many of which Hedda Gabler, whilst Richard Eyre helmed we were able to subsidise. Of course, Nicholas Wright’s new play 8 Hotels, based an extended run in London is always a on a true-life rivalry between Paul Robeson financial incentive for any regional theatre, and José Ferrer. Orange Tree Theatre’s

but London is importing, or co-producing, artistic director, Paul Miller, took charge a substantial number of shows. The for the third of the trio, Macbeth with appetite for theatre amongst audiences John Simm and Dervla Kirwan. Nuffield hasn’t diminished, in fact straitened Theatre Southampton rehearsed Peter Chairman times have pushed producing houses into Morgan’s The Audience, directed by Sam sharing the risks and potential rewards. Hodges, and Matthew Xia took the helm for Kemp Powers’ fictionalised version Sheffield as a city was well represented of the meeting of Sam Cooke, Cassius throughout the year, and bookended 2019. Clay, Malcolm X and American football & Director’s We took rehearsals for the new Richard player Jim Brown, in One Night In Miami for Hawley and Chris Bush musical Standing Nottingham Playhouse. at the Sky’s Edge, a paean to the local Park Hill housing estate, directed to much Over the summer, we took three shows acclaim by Rob Hastie, before finishing the that travelled up to Edinburgh, two Review year with rehearsals for their enormously produced by Avalon Productions: Anguis, successful transfer of Everyone’s Talking written by Shelia Atim, directed by Lucy CHRIS COTTON, CHAIRMAN About Jamie, returning to Sheffield at the Jane Atkinson; and Resurrecting Bobby PETER WILKINSON, DIRECTOR Lyceum in 2020. Another Sheffield success Awl, directed by JMK winner Josh Roche. story which rehearsed with us was Life of Pi, Tim Crouch’s Total Immediate Collective adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti and directed Imminent Terrestrial Salvation rehearsed by Max Webster, with a life-size tiger at Jerwood Space before heading up to puppet and a full-scale boat built in the Scotland on the first leg of its tour. Theatr space (see photo opposite), and that show Clwyd also took space to develop their too is London-bound. new musical The Assassination of Katie Hopkins, written by Chris Bush and Caroline Steinbeis directed her well- Matt Winkworth. received Rutherford and Son for Sheffield Crucible in the cramped surroundings of Touring productions constituted a Space 6 before Trevor Nunn occupied the relatively large proportion of rehearsals same space to rehearse the transfer of this year. The Original Theatre Company Agnes Colander from Theatre Royal Bath to took an adaptation of Sarah Waters’ Jermyn Street Theatre. It was the first of two The Night Watch, directed by Alastair transfers which Bath rehearsed in the first Whatley up and down the UK and Terry few months of the year, the second being Johnson directed his own play Prism

Jonathan Church’s version of Arthur Miller’s with Robert Lindsay and Tara Fitzgerald The Price with David Suchet. which started at Hampstead before going on a UK tour. Tom Littler directed a Strindberg double bill with us for Jermyn Street Theatre. Both Raz Shaw returned to re-rehearse his shows, Creditors and Miss Julie, started production of Ian Kershaw’s The Greatest at Theatre by the Lake in Keswick before Play in The History of The World, with Julie transferring to London in April. We hosted Hesmondhalgh, which proved a hit at the further Jermyn Street Theatre shows during Royal Exchange in Manchester before the year, including, amongst others, Maud a stint at the Trafalgar, and Told By An Dromgoole’s Mary’s Babies, directed by Idiot’s The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin Tatty Hennessy, and Craig Taylor’s One and Stan Laurel by Paul Hunter took Million Tiny Plays About Britain, directed by several weeks with us before touring the Laura Keefe and a co-production with The UK and Luxembourg. Watermill Theatre in Berkshire.

Hiran Abeysekera (Pi) in rehearsal for Life of Pi in Jerwood Space, 2019. Photo: Manuel Harlan 16 Jerwood Annual Review 2019 Jerwood Space 17 The company of Young Vic’s Fairview in rehearsal in Jerwood Space, 2019. Photo Marc Brenner

Jonathan Kent directed Florian Zeller’s The workshops for a new musical adaptation of Of course, London wasn’t neglected Candoco Dance Company took rehearsals 2019 has, in many ways, proved to be Yasmin Hemmings, Young People in the Arts in the People Young Hemmings, Yasmin Height of the Storm with Eileen Atkins and Back To The Future, which will begin life in during the year. In fact, the most for The Lost Thing, choreographed by hugely demanding for the arts, particularly Jonathan Pryce for a short re-rehearsal Manchester during 2020. complicated set we’ve housed came Ben Wright, and we also found space for outside of London. There has been a huge before transferring to Broadway after a from English National Opera and Alexander Whitley, Hofesh Shechter, Javier drop in cultural funding by local councils successful stint in the West End. We also Opera from outside London was Daniel Kramer’s retelling of Harrison De Frutos and Viviana Durante through since austerity began and the disparity welcomed back Sam Yates’ one-actor prominent throughout the year. Birtwistle’s Mask of Orpheus, with the year, as well as the usual sprinkling of between the funding spent on London’s production of Paul Muldoon’s Incantata, Garsington rehearsed Benjamin Britten’s aerialists and a bathtub containing Resolution festival bookings. arts institutions and those outside of the with Stanley Townsend, prior to playing Turn of the Screw, with Louisa Muller 3,600 litres of water! Amongst the usual capital continues to widen. Our experience, in Dublin. Also with an international directing and Chris Oram designing the recasts for Book of Mormon, Lion King and In parallel with the gallery exhibitions however, has proven that theatre is still flavour, and similarly a one-actor show, set (following straight on from designing Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, we and in conjunction with Jerwood Arts, we finding ways to thrive, despite the political was Avalanche: A Love Story directed by the set for Bitter Wheat in the same space also rehearsed some of the most were again pleased to host our education and economic uncertainty, and the Anne-Louise Sarks, featuring Maxine Peake, the previous week). Improbable returned eagerly anticipated shows in London programme, benefitting local schools and partnerships it is forging nationwide will which was co-produced between Barbican for Phelim McDermott’s collaboration over the year. These included, amongst youth groups. Throughout the year we also continue to help it to flourish. and Sydney Theatre Company, playing in with Philip Glass, The Tao of Glass for many others, part of Jamie Lloyd’s Pinter hosted events for a series of organisations Australia after it finished in London. Manchester International Festival and season (A Slight Ache/ The Dumbwaiter), whose aims are structured towards Buxton booked space for Opera Della Maggie Smith in A German Life and pushing social responsibility, including The

and the service from Jerwood Space staff is always brilliant. staffis always Space Jerwood from service the and London brought in two big musicals Luna’s production of Orpheus in the Nick Hytner’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Living Wage Foundation, Young People In from North America during 2019. We Underworld, with Jeff Clarke at the helm, both at the Bridge Theatre, Ivo van Hove’s the Arts and DAS Europe. were pleased to take rehearsals for both and Opera Della Luna returned for a take on All About Eve with Gillian Come From Away, directed by Christopher Jacques Offenbach double withLa Belle Anderson and Lily James, David Mamet’s Of course, none of this could happen

We’ve been pleased to work with Jerwood Space on a number of of a number on Space with Jerwood work to pleased been We’ve Ashley, and the Grammy and Tony Award Hélène, a touring co-production with Bitter Wheat, Kenny Lonergan’s Starry without the indefatigable efforts of all our Glasshouse is a beautiful space which is well suited to our events, events, our to suited well is which a beautiful space is Glasshouse Young People in the Arts events over the last couple of years. The The years. of couple last the over Arts in the events People Young winning Dear Evan Hansen, directed by New Sussex Opera. Ian Page’s Classical Messenger with Matthew Broderick, staff who, each year, go above and beyond Michael Greif. Sonia Friedman cast the Opera Company also returned with their Ben Weatherill’s Jellyfish and Jacki Sibblies the call of duty to grease the cogs of the UK transfer of Scott Rudin’s production of version of Mozart’s Così fan tutte which Drury’s Fairview, directed by Nadia Latif theatre machine. As ever, they have our @JerwoodSpace To Kill A Mockingbird, and we also hosted toured to Syracuse. for the Young Vic (see above). undying thanks. @jerwood_space

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