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The Arts Council of England Annual Review 2002 the Arts Matter Arts Council of England Annual Review 2002 The Arts Council of England annual review 2002 The arts matter Arts Council of England annual review 2002 Arts Council of England annual review The arts matter Arts Council of England Arts Council of England annual review 2002 14 Great Peter Street London SW1P 3NQ T 020 7333 0100 F 020 7973 6590 Textphone 020 7973 6564 [email protected] www.artscouncil.org.uk Cover image: a detail from ‘Astral Dance’, the safety curtain at Birmingham Hippodrome. Balraj Khanna was commissioned to create this, the largest piece of public art in a UK theatre. The Hippodrome re-opened in November 2001 following a £30 million redevelopment, £24 million of which came from Arts Council lottery funds. Photographer: Harry Rhodes Arts Council of England regional offices East England Arts North West Arts South West Arts Eden House Manchester House Bradninch Place 48–49 Bateman Street 22 Bridge Street Gandy Street welcome to the Cambridge Manchester M3 3AB Exeter CB2 1LR T 0161 834 6644 Devon T 01223 454400 F 0161 834 6969 EX4 3LS F 0870 242 1271 Textphone 0161 834 9131 T 01392 218188 Arts Council of England’s Textphone 01223 306893 F 01392 229229 Southern & South East Arts Textphone 01392 433503 East Midlands Arts (Tunbridge Wells office) Mountfields House Union House West Midlands Arts annual review 2002 Epinal Way Eridge Road 82 Granville Street Loughborough Tunbridge Wells Birmingham Leicestershire Kent B1 2LH LE11 0QE TN4 8HF T 0121 631 3121 The Arts Council is the national body for the T 01509 218292 T 01892 507200 F 0121 643 7239 arts in England. As an independent, non- F 01509 262214 F 0870 242 1259 Textphone 0121 643 2815 political body working at arm’s length from Textphone 01892 525831 Government, we distribute public money from London Arts Yorkshire Arts Government and the National Lottery to artists 2 Pear Tree Court (Winchester office) 21 Bond Street and arts organisations. London 13 St Clement Street Dewsbury EC1R 0DS Winchester West Yorkshire On 1 April 2002, the Arts Council and the 10 T 020 7608 6100 Hampshire WF13 1AX Regional Arts Boards joined together to form F 020 7608 4100 SO23 9DQ T 01924 455555 a single development organisation for the arts. Textphone 020 7608 4101 T 01962 855099 F 01924 466522 The new organisation is responsible for F 0870 242 1257 Textphone 01924 438585 developing and promoting the arts in England. Northern Arts We aim to be a national force for the arts, Central Square delivering a higher profile, more funding and Forth Street more support to artists and arts organisations. Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3PJ The arts matter for so many reasons. In this T 0191 255 8500 annual review, we focus on some strands of F 0191 230 1020 our work that show how the arts matter in a Textphone 0191 255 8500 range of social and educational settings. contents 01 Chairman’s introduction 02 Chief Executive’s introduction Charity registration number 1036733 • ISBN 0–7287–0894–9 • ©The Arts Council of England October 2002 03–07 A taste of our work 08–45 Grant-in-aid accounts Designed and produced by Merchant with navyblue. Printed by Perivan White Dove. 46–73 Lottery accounts The Arts Council of England is committed to being open and accessible. We welcome all comments on our work. 74 –95 National Lottery Report Please send these to Wendy Andrews, Executive Director of Communications. 96 Membership of the Arts Council advisory panels 97 Arts Council of England regional offices This publication is also available on our website: www.artscouncil.org.uk/review2002/ If you require any publication in another format, including translation, contact the Information Department: 020 7973 6453, [email protected] a year of change and achievement This has been a year of major change and awarded in 2000: £25 million is being invested achievement in the arts. The lottery-funded in theatre, £40 million is being used to establish Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art opened the 16 Creative Partnership programmes and to international acclaim in Gateshead. We £35 million is being invested in core funding for launched our new Creative Partnerships arts organisations. Over the coming months programme in 16 areas throughout England, the Council will decide how to make best use giving young people and their teachers the of the very welcome further new investment chance to work directly with artists and cultural in the arts. and creative organisations. Gerry Robinson Courtesy of UPPA On 1 April 2002, the Arts Council and the When I became Chairman of the Arts Council Regional Arts Boards merged to form a single in 1998, my priority was to achieve a step organisation for the arts in England. This will change in arts funding in this country. I am bring a number of benefits: greater decision- therefore delighted to report that the arts have making at regional level; stronger national again benefited from a substantial increase leadership; less bureaucracy for artists to deal in the Government’s recent spending review. with; and a powerful national organisation that Together with continued lottery funding for the will be able to make an even stronger case for arts, this reflects Government recognition of proper funding in the future. the vital part the arts play in all our lives. I would like to thank everyone for what has By 2005/06, an additional £75 million a year been achieved this year – especially Council will be directed to the arts. This comes on top members and staff – and welcome those now of the extra £100 million a year awarded to joining us in the new organisation. Together the arts in the 2000 spending review. In I am sure we can exceed even our previous 1998/99 revenue funding for the arts stood achievements. at £189.6 million. By 2005/06 it will have risen to £412.3 million – an extra £222.7 million, an increase of 117%. We have already announced how we will Gerry Robinson spend the additional £100 million we were Chairman The Arts Council of England annual review and accounts 01 beyond boundaries In March 2002, Peter Hewitt, Chief Executive It thrives in open spaces where it has room to of the Arts Council, delivered a speech entitled breathe, where people are free to explore. ‘Beyond boundaries: the arts after the events It is by nature resistant to instruction or of 2001.’ The speech was stimulated by the targetting. The whole point of creativity, events of September 11th and in it Peter set as with all forms of innovation, is that it is out his aspirations for the arts. Some extracts impossible to know the outcome in advance. from the speech follow. Read the full text at This can at times run counter to the instinct www.artscouncil.org.uk/news/ of policy makers in Government and in publicationsindex.html funding bodies like ours, who, in their keenness to uphold accountability, are A world with fewer borders in trade and inclined to detailed targets, leading inevitably commerce has thrown into relief those to micro management and, at its worst, borders and boundaries that still matter. the stifling of initiative and innovation. The important remaining boundaries in our globalised world are increasingly about We must establish a cultural ‘right to roam’, culture, tradition, belief, religion and identity. to taste, experiment, learn from the many different cultures that make up these islands, I think it is essential to encourage modern let alone what is beyond. This must be art to explore and transgress the borders available to all of us from children in schools and boundaries of our society, in culture to mature adulthood. and in science. Borders can be obstacles but they can also be interfaces of exchange We need artistic capacity, spread throughout Peter Hewitt and creativity. our society and its many communities, to Photographer: Pete Jones provide us with the depth and diversity of That is where we need to see art, trading imaginative capital to make sense of, and between different cultures, disciplines and the most of, the complex world we live in. ways of viewing the world. Our new, single organisation will build on We at the Arts Council are in what you the best regionally and nationally. We will: might call ‘the platform business’: it’s our job to help create the platform for a • promote the value of the arts socially, the multiplicity of artistic expression in this value of the artist, and the value of art country, to reflect the multiplicity of cultural itself – all in equal measure experiences in society and the richness of • respect regional identity and difference the environment in which we live. but encourage a richer, more complex definition of what ‘we’ means in this And I believe that in an increasingly secular country today Western world, art has a vital role to play to • sweep aside some of the bureaucratic connect us to that sense of deeper meaning. clutter which impedes artists from Poems are a modern form of prayer. Art focussing on production and innovation provides the setting for modern communion. • create the capacity to respond to artistic It is no cliché to see Tate Modern, the Lowry aspiration and to take bold action when and the Baltic as the new cathedrals. needed • find a new, confident voice in public Art can live under pressure, in repressive dialogue about the importance of the societies, but it cannot be prescribed. artist and the arts in society. 02 The Arts Council of England annual review and accounts creativity is fundamentally important Now in its third year, Artsmark goes from strength to strength.
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