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Artist Commission 2020-21: Flatford Mill, Suffolk a Bigger Canvas The Artist Commission 2020-21: Flatford Mill, Suffolk A Bigger Canvas The 200th anniversary of John ConstaBle’s ‘The Hay Wain’ Budget: £10,000 Deadline: 7 June 2021 Interviews: 29 June 2021 Suggested Commission Start date: Early July 2021 Suggested Commission End date: November 2021 Introduction Working in close partnership with the National Trust and their team at Flatford Mill in Dedham Vale (Suffolk), we are inviting proposals as part of our National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) commissioning programme for 2021-22. Essex Cultural Diversity Project (ECDP) commissions provide an opportunity for creative practitioners and artists to not only create new work, but also explore diversity and develop their socially engaged and participatory practice. The projects capture the spirit of place and this commission should aim to connect with communities and give people a platform to meaningfully engage with the core subject of this commission; the 200th anniversary of The Hay Wain by artist John Constable. About Essex Cultural Diversity Project Since 2007 Essex Cultural Diversity Project (ECDP) has been bringing together artists, museums, libraries, performers and writers with local authorities and commissioners to improve and enhance artistic and cultural diversity, ensure that excellence is thriving, and that cultural integration and understanding is supported through arts and cultural activity. ECDP is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) working across the East and South East of England to support diversity in arts and cultural practice. ECDP has a key role to explore the concept of ‘diversity’ across the East of England and beyond, working with a wide range of partners and providing opportunities for artists and creative practitioners from diverse backgrounds and contexts. Through our commissioning programme ECDP aims to support the production of challenging work that responds to specific places and the local context, as well as reflecting on national themes and issues around diversity. For further information on Essex Cultural Diversity Project visit www.essexcdp.com 1 About National Trust The National Trust is one of the UK’s largest Charities founded in 1895 by three people who saw the importance of the nation’s heritage and open spaces and wanted to protect them for everyone to enjoy. 125 years later (2020 was the 125th anniversary) the National Trust looks after special places throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland ensuring that they are accessible for everyone, for ever. The majority of the Trust’s funding, secured from a range of sources, is spent directly on the conservation costs for properties. The Trust relies on the support of its many members, donors and volunteers, as well as income from grant-making bodies and commercial activities such as retail and catering, to look after the places in our care. The National Trust is constantly developing its engagement programmes and marketing approach to engage a greater diversity of visitors and volunteers, as well as aiming to increase the diversity of interpretation and curatorial approaches to their properties and collections. Collaborating with organisations such as ECDP is core to this approach, aiming to explore new concepts and reach new communities who may not have engaged with the National Trust and its portfolio of properties and sites before. For the National Trust, inclusion means making sure everyone feels valued, welcome, able to be themselves and that their opinions matter. This means putting people at the front and centre of everything we do. As an organisation we want to make sure anyone can access and feel welcome with us; that we appeal to a broader range of people (to volunteer, work or visit) and to become more relevant to more people, through the experiences we offer and the stories we tell. It is important that this commission represents this. The National Trust does have a well-established contemporary arts programme that has been running since 2009, with over 200 artists creating new work inspired by the many places and collections. This has often been achieved in partnership with the Arts Council. We are delighted to be working with Essex Cultural Diversity Project on this exciting work having partnered with them last year on commissions at Paycocke’s House, Grange Barn (Coggeshall) and Bourne Mill (Colchester). Project Context – The Hay Wain: an ideal English landscape? Who is John Constable? Why do we want to celebrate in 2021? Flatford may seem like a quiet corner of rural Suffolk, but it is the place which inspired one of the greatest landscape paintings of all time and changed the course of western art. In the late 18th century, the mill buildings at Flatford were owned by the Constable family. Golding Constable was a prosperous local businessman who hoped his second son John would join the family business. However, John showed a flair for art and a keen interest in landscape, so followed his conviction and enrolled at the Royal Academy in 1799. This was the start of a career which led him to obsessively depict the landscapes of the Dedham Vale, drawing inspiration from his detailed working knowledge of the countryside and his observations of the landscape. A Bigger Canvas Perhaps his greatest achievement as an artist was a series of six foot paintings of the Stour Valley. Their huge size challenged the convention at the time that landscape paintings should be small in scale, befitting their low status in art. In addition, he used a style and colouring which was 2 drawn from his observations of nature, leading him to challenge the accepted ways of painting a landscape. The Hay Wain was perhaps the greatest of his six foot paintings and certainly the most popular today. The subject is simple: a Suffolk wagon sitting in the middle of the mill pond within a scene of rural harmony. Willy Lott’s House, to the left in the picture, is perhaps the most recognisable feature and connects people to the landscape today. Constable’s understanding of the Suffolk landscape allowed him to depict accurate detail, such as the structure of the house and the movement of the water through the pond. However, even when Constable was painting this picture, the industrial revolution was gathering pace and threatening the fabric of country life. The painting was done in Constable’s London studio seven years after he made his last prolonged visit to Suffolk, so it is a retrospective view, mixing fond memory with naturalist observation. The painting was first shown at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1821, where it made a big impression but failed to sell. However, it went on to be shown in France and gained Constable a Gold Medal at the Paris Salon of 1824. Through this success it influenced French romantic painting, the naturalistic Barbizon School and the French Impressionists. On the strength of this provenance, the painting entered the British national collection in 1886. This led to the painting being reproduced widely in late Victorian Britain, so it gradually became a familiar image. So much so, that by the early 20th Century, the painting was seen as a depiction of an ideal English landscape. Sadly, this popularity undermined the academic interest in the painting. However, a series of exhibitions from the 1970s to the present day have raised its status once again as one of the greatest English Landscape paintings. Today, the National Trust actually manages The Hay Wain view to reflect the picture that Constable painted, creating an interesting paradox where reality is reflecting a memory of a view. ECDP/National Trust Hay Wain 200 project – Commission Brief 2021 marks the 200th anniversary of The Hay Wain and so the National Trust and ECDP are seeking to work with a community artist(s) or creative practitioner to partner with us on the celebrations. The National Trust was founded to serve the whole of society and our society is becoming more diverse. Many enthusiasts of Constable’s work come to visit Flatford every year to celebrate him, and so it is important that this project is respectful to his life and work. However visitors interact with Flatford from a wide demographic for a range of purposes, from people coming for a picnic, locals walking their dogs, families wanting to hire a boat, or visitors who have made a pilgrimage to see “the view”, some will care passionately about The Hay Wain, others won’t know anything about it. The project aims to enable people to connect with Constable on their own terms. This means working with the spirit that society can connect through art, whether celebrating The Hay Wain in its classical sense or through contemporary forms that represent what art means across our changing society in 2021. Both ECDP and National Trust are hoping this commission will lead to an inclusive programme of activity, with success being focused around the quality and breadth of public and visitor participation. The key points to consider for this commission are as follows: • On the 200th anniversary year of The Hay Wain, the National Trust is celebrating one of the world’s best-known landscape paintings and the life and work of the artist John Constable • The commission should aim to be a cultural celebration that connects The Hay Wain through art with the breadth of our society, enabling traditional & contemporary enthusiasts of Constable to celebrate his work in harmony with broader cultural perspectives • Success will be about co-creation, enabling people from all ages and backgrounds to engage meaningfully 3 • Ideally the commission programme will work with National Trust daily operations and form part of the daily visitor experience, rather than feeling like an additional project • The commission programme should aim to enhance experiences for people who want to come to Flatford or to celebrate Constable.
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