ANNUAL REPORTS 2018 Left to right: Jerwood Collection: 25 Years Sir Cedric Morris (1889 – 1982) Blackbird and Flowers, 1952 2018 marked a significant anniversary Anne Redpath RSA ARA (1895 – 1965) for Jerwood Collection: 25 years ago, Mainly Grey and White, circa 1957 in June 1993, Alan Grieve purchased the first work for the collection, Sir Maggi Hambling (b.1945) Frank Brangwyn’s From my Window at Frances Rose 2, 1973 Ditchling and Jerwood Collection has Paul Feiler (1918 – 2013) since grown to hold just under 300 works Chrome & Lemon, 1956 of 20th and 21st century British art. The Jerwood is a family of registered charities and not-for-profit collection continues to acquire new works organisations; Jerwood Foundation, Jerwood Arts, Jerwood Space and The Art of Collecting | Mayfair Art Weekend and, through an extensive loans and Mall Galleries, London Jerwood Gallery, Hastings. United in their commitment to support, June – July 2018 exhibition programme, contributes to the Photo: © Tim Hall Photography understanding and enjoyment of modern nurture and reward excellence and dedication in the visual and and contemporary British art. performing arts.
Jerwood has channelled over £100 million in capital and revenue funding in support of the arts in the UK since 1991.
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Alan Grieve CBE Lara Wardle Philippa Hogan-Hern
Opposite: Man cannot discover new oceans Matt Tait and Melissa Vaughan in rehearsal unless he has the courage to lose for The Wider Earth in the Jerwood Gallery at Natural History Museum, produced by Trish sight of the shore Wadley Productions, Dead Puppet Society and Glass Half Full Productions. – André Gide (1869 – 1951) Photo: Mark Douet Chairman & Executive Directors’ Report
2018 was another milestone year Ellie Kendrick, already well established in became an impressive venue for arts for Jerwood; a year in which we the acting world for her reprisal of Meera and science exhibitions and activities. commemorated the centenary of John Reed in Game of Thrones, went behind However, in a dramatic new development Jerwood’s birth and all that has been the camera to write her debut play, in October, the Jerwood Gallery was achieved in his memory over the past Hole, which was performed at the end transformed into a temporary theatre, four decades, through the wide-ranging of the year in Jerwood Theatre Upstairs hosting the European premiere of The activities of Jerwood Foundation, at Royal Court Theatre as part of the Wider Earth, a magical and ingenious Jerwood Arts, Jerwood Space and Jerwood New Playwrights programme. theatre production which brought to Jerwood Gallery, Hastings. life the intrepid journey undertaken by Emma-Jean Thackray completed her 16 the 22 year-old Charles Darwin on HMS Bold, entrepreneurial, independent, month placement on the LSO Jerwood Beagle. It has been nominated for Best opportunistic and risk-taking are Composer+ programme with the Entertainment and Family in the 2019 characteristics which epitomised the delivery of two chamber-scale concerts Olivier Awards. late John Jerwood, and form part of his at Jerwood Hall at LSO St Luke’s. The legacy shared by the Jerwood Family award-winning trumpeter, producer, Jerwood’s Culture of Philanthropy and its beneficiaries working creatively singer and composer performed her new Jerwood has channelled in excess of across almost all art forms in the UK. work in a genre-smashing collaboration £100 million in capital and revenue between artists from the London funding since 1991 and remains steadfast Throughout 2018, we have witnessed jazz scene and LSO musicians. “The in its commitment to support, nurture and celebrated many outstanding entrepreneurial spirit behind the Jerwood and reward excellence and dedication in and inspiring demonstrations of Composer+ programme is what first the visual and performing arts in the UK, creative entrepreneurship by Jerwood attracted me to it. In jazz we always have with a particular focus on emerging and Arts’ alumni, notably Alice Birch and to think like entrepreneurs” – Emma-Jean early-career artists. Rory Mullarkey, both Jerwood New Thackray. Playwrights at Royal Court Theatre, Jerwood’s culture of philanthropy is, in who have diversified their writing skills It is this willingness to be bold and many ways, evolutionary. As a family into the world of opera. As part of the imaginative, to take risks and to push the of philanthropic organisations, our Jerwood Opera Writing Fellowship at boundaries of creativity that reinforces aim is to be relevant, imaginative and Snape Maltings, Alice collaborated and underlines what Jerwood aims to responsive in our support. Whether with Tom Coult to write the libretto discover, nurture and champion in its working independently or through for an opera, as yet untitled, inspired beneficiaries. strategic partnerships with other arts by Edgar Allen Poe’s satirical story The organisations, trusts, foundations or Arts Devil in the Belfry. It will be performed at This versatility and flexibility is Council England, our remit is to foster Snape Maltings in 2020; Rory made his also illustrated by one of Jerwood the creation of the best art possible by debut as a librettist for Mark-Anthony Foundation’s major capital projects. In meeting the current and fundamental Turnage’s opera Coraline (2017/18 1999 Jerwood Foundation made a grant needs of artists. To state the obvious, our Season) and his new opera The Skating of £900,000 towards the restoration impact can only ever be as effective as Rink, composed by David Sawer, was and modernisation of the Natural the creative outcomes of the Jerwood performed during the Garsington Opera History Museum’s magnificent Gallery beneficiaries themselves. Festival in the summer. 26. Renamed the Jerwood Gallery, it
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Right: Jerwood New Playwright Ellie Kendrick during rehearsal of her debut play, Hole, at tech stocks continuing to weaken against The power of art to Royal Court Theatre high pricing, political controls and raised convey ideas is unique... Photo: The Other Richard taxation. “Kendrick’s text is formally loose, vivid, furious we must ensure that those and funny” – Sam Marlowe, The Stage Celebrating 20 Years of Jerwood Space ideas are diverse, freely On 21 September 1998 the then Opposite: Jerwood Library, Trinity Hall Secretary of State for Culture, Media and expressed and accessible Cambridge, overlooking the River Cam at night Sport, Chris Smith MP (now Lord Smith Photo: Andrew Dunn to all of Finsbury) and Alan Grieve officially opened the Foundation’s first major – Chimamanda Ngozi capital project, Jerwood Space. A former Victorian school in Southwark, the Adichie, presenting the In recognition of the long-standing All Share Index at -9.5%. Our converted building was refurbished to 2018 Turner Prize relationship between Jerwood and major funds in Waverton returned create rehearsal studios, meeting rooms, Birmingham Royal Ballet, primarily -3.29% against the weakness in the a versatile gallery space - the home of through a capital grant of £200,000 Asian and emerging markets at -12.7%. the Jerwood Arts’ exhibition programme, towards the Jerwood Centre for the The recovery potential in these markets a café with a glasshouse and office Prevention and Treatment of Dance is considerable and Lloyd George space for Jerwood Arts. Further Injuries in 2001, we made a donation Management is cautiously optimistic development in 2007 added a new announced that it has been voted the team and Trustees in the development of contemporary British art would no last year of £20,000 towards the cost of for 2019. top storey to create Space 7, a much- favourite new, refurbished, extended or a new and dynamic strategic vision to be longer be displayed at the gallery, but replacing ultrasound equipment at the needed space especially designed for conserved building in central Cambridge implemented over the coming years. that it would continue to be available Jerwood Centre, reinforcing its position During 2018 economies and market rehearsing large-scale musical theatre. in the last half century. In the summer, we welcomed back Clair for loan to art galleries and institutions as the leading organisation in the field of sentiment were surprisingly benign The high demand for Space 7 reflects Montier, Jerwood Limited’s General nationally and internationally. With dance medicine. in spite of volatilities and the effect of the immense growth in musical theatre Remembering John Jerwood MC Manager and bid farewell to Sharon a new name, and operating with full global politics. on the London and regional stages. The (1918–1991) Marshall who had ably covered Clair’s financial and operational independence, Building New Audiences and Widening fact that all the major musical theatre In Doncaster on 1st August, the King’s maternity leave. We were also pleased to the management team at the gallery will Access to the Arts However, the last quarter of 2018 and productions over the past decade have Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) welcome Emma Batchelor in a part-time generate new sources of funding to meet As public spending in the arts is cut the early months of 2019 have witnessed been rehearsed at Jerwood Space is a Regimental Day and the anniversary of role as Jerwood Collection Administrator, its ambitions. further, the place and need for private global confidence weakening and testament to that early foresight. the Battle of Minden, Alan and Karen while she completed her MA Curating philanthropy in developing new economies slowing. There are positive Grieve attended the unveiling and the Art Museum at the Courtauld Jerwood is proud of the award-winning audiences and widening access to the factors, such as for Asian markets with The past 20 years have seen ‘the Space’, dedication of a memorial statue by Institute of Art. gallery building and strong legacy which arts is recognised to be greater than the fall in oil prices, but there are many as it is affectionately known, become Steve Winterburn to commemorate it leaves in Hastings with art remaining at ever, particularly in the regions where unfavourable developments reported one of the best and most sought after all the soldiers who had served in We continue to value and appreciate the forefront of the town’s regeneration. opportunities for engagement are too constantly by the media. Against this rehearsal studios in the country, and its the Regiment, which included John the personal commitment and positive often lamentably limited. Jerwood background, and leaving Brexit in the mission is to provide theatre and musical Jerwood MC. In 2016, in John’s memory, contributions made by everyone who Looking Ahead is increasingly focussed on playing wings so far as the UK is concerned, it theatre, opera and dance practitioners, Jerwood Foundation was pleased to works within Jerwood; the Directors The value of Jerwood’s contribution to its crucial hands-on role, whether is hard to see ahead. In the UK there is large and small, with outstanding have contributed towards the memorial and Trustees who sit on the boards of the arts lies in the sum of our collective through local community outreach still a robust labour market. If the Brexit facilities, subsidised whenever possible, appeal fund. Jerwood Arts, Jerwood Space, Jerwood parts. Whilst we place tremendous programmes and activities undertaken settlement materialises on a fair and and always to promote the creation of Gallery, Hastings and the members of importance on individuals and their by Jerwood Space in Southwark and reasoned basis for both sides then it may the best work of art. In a special visit to Oakham School our governing Council in Jersey. We unique strengths, we believe that our Jerwood Gallery in Hastings, or through well be that confidence and investment on 26 September, we were joined by congratulate Tim Eyles, who continues impact is greatest when our strengths Jerwood Arts’ Weston Jerwood Creative will be rejuvenated. 20th Anniversary of the Jerwood Penny Corah and Tom White, former to chair the Board of Jerwood Arts, on are combined. Working together, Bursaries Programme. Its indirect role Library, Trinity Hall Cambridge Trustees of Oakham School and friends his appointment as the new Chair of RSA we will continue to be courageous, is delivered by Jerwood Arts through It is impossible to predict the movement Jenni Lecky-Thompson, the new Head of of the late John Jerwood. It was an (Royal Society for the encouragement of entrepreneurial, passionate and take its grants, and by the public display of of oil prices as they are subject to Library Services at Trinity Hall Cambridge important moment to reflect upon and Arts, Manufactures and Commerce). calculated risks in the name of Jerwood. the Jerwood Collection through its loans influences and politics which are unique welcomed Alan Grieve in November celebrate the ongoing influence and and exhibitions programme. It is also to oil pricing. It seems that the pressure to celebrate the 20th anniversary of impact of generous benefactions by Jerwood Gallery, Hastings delivered online through Art UK and on central banks to increase interest the Jerwood Library which had been John Jerwood and Jerwood Foundation During 2018 we continued to use our Vastari’s digital platforms. More detail is rates has waned. supported by a capital grant from which would spearhead the dramatic capital and financial resources principally outlined in the individual statements in Jerwood Foundation of £1.4 million ‘to growth in the size and reputation of in support of Jerwood Gallery’s core this report. Sterling ended 2018 at 1.26USD which cover the bricks and mortar’. Opened the school. costs through a stakeholder grant of Alan Grieve, Chairman represented a fall of 12% since April quietly in September 1998 (before its £300,000. The level of this grant being Investment Review and Outlook 2018. On the other hand inflation official opening in May 1999), the award- Changing of the Guard reduced to £200,000 in 2019. Our funds remain under the reduced to 2.1% from 3%. winning four-storey building, overlooking This year the Jerwood Family has been management of Waverton Investment the River Cam, facing on to the Backs, invigorated by the appointment of new In February 2019, the Council of Jerwood Management in London and Lloyd The US Market weathered the downward designed by Tristan Rees Roberts as people and is benefitting from their Foundation publicly announced the w George Management (HK) Limited in adjustment better than Europe. The an extension to the Thornton Building, broad experience, expertise and fresh difficult decision to disengage from Hong Kong. Our investments in Asia, S&P 500 Index ended the year at -6.2% provided Trinity Hall with much needed approach. As announced in last year’s Jerwood Gallery and the resignation Philippa Hogan-Hern and Lara Wardle, Europe and the US collectively returned against the FTSE 100 at -12.5%, their and greatly used study space for students. Annual Report, Lilli Geissendorfer joined of the three Jerwood representatives Executive Directors an annual performance of -5.17%. This biggest annual decline in a decade. 2019 The Library has gained recognition as one Jerwood Arts as Director in January 2018, on the gallery’s Board of Directors. It is against world market performances of will see the falling away of the benefits of the best examples of post-war building and over the past year she and Jon Opie, confirmed that by the end of this year jerwood.org FTSE All World Index at -9.1% and FTSE to American corporates of tax cuts and in Cambridge. In February 2019 it was Deputy Director, have skilfully led the the Jerwood Collection of modern and @JerwoodF
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Roy Oxlade (1929 – 2014) Profile and Brushes, 1984 – 85 oil on canvas Lara Wardle 120.2 × 152 cm Photo: Phil Adams © Estate of Roy Oxlade, Courtesy of Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
Sir Muirhead Bone (1876 – 1953) Painting is a funny business … it falls The Orangery of Deniécourt Chateau, near Peronne, 1917 between the extremes of music and charcoal on paper literature – both of which can be 53 × 75.5 cm © Estate of Sir Muirhead Bone. done seriously in the head in the way All Rights Reserved. DACS 2019 painting can’t. During 2018 over Wilfred Avery (1926 – 2016) Fountains Abbey: Late Afternoon, 1960 – Roy Oxlade (1929 – 2014) oil on canvas 300,000 59 × 49 cm people visited Donated by Ray Crossley and reproduced with permission. exhibitions which included Jerwood Collection works
Director’s Report
25 Years aimed to achieve this purpose through portrait, suggested to be of his first wife, 2018 marked a significant anniversary for initiatives including: themed displays Anaïs Folin is stunning in its beauty and Jerwood Collection: 25 years ago, in June at Jerwood Gallery, Hastings; loans to power. 1993, Alan Grieve (Chairman, Jerwood UK exhibitions; working in partnership Foundation) purchased the first work with organisations to enhance their This year we were delighted that our for the collection, Sir Frank Brangwyn’s offering to their audiences; and acquisitions also included a special From my Window at Ditchling depicting inclusion on a number of digital donation made by the Executor of the the view from Brangwyn’s Sussex home. platforms such as Art UK, Bridgeman Estate of Wilfred Avery, Fountains Abbey: Since that date Jerwood Collection has Images and Vastari. Late Afternoon, 1960 by Wilfred Avery grown to hold just under 300 works of (1926–2016). 20th and 21st century British art. In Memoriam We were very sad to mark the loss Looking Ahead We took the opportunity to celebrate in April of Gillian Ayres CBE RA When Alan Grieve purchased the first this anniversary with two special (1930–2018), one of Britain’s most work for the collection in 1993, he could exhibitions: the first at Jerwood Gallery, significant abstract painters. Her works not have anticipated that 25 years Hastings (January–April); and a second from the 1950s were the subject of a later, during an anniversary year, over more selective exhibition of 25 works survey exhibition at Jerwood Gallery 300,000 people would visit exhibitions at Sotheby’s, London (June) where in collaboration with Alan Cristea including Jerwood Collection works. the collection had started with the Gallery in 2012. We were pleased that Brangwyn purchase. her painting from Jerwood Collection, Looking to the future and perhaps the Untitled, 1993 was on loan to Sheffield next 25 years, we plan to proactively Not only has the collection grown in Museums in Darkness into Light: The share the collection, enabling new, as size during the last 25 years, but its Emotional Power of Art. well as established audiences, access to Gerald Leslie Brockhurst RA (1890 – 1978) Study of a Woman’s Head, circa 1914 purpose has also changed. Originally privately collected 20th and 21st century pencil on paper collected for the walls of Jerwood Acquisitions British art. Actively loaning the collection 30 × 22.5 cm Foundation’s offices in Fitzroy Square, When considering a new acquisition, is an important part of Jerwood © Richard Woodward London, the collection while still we think carefully about how that work Foundation’s wider philanthropic mission privately owned, now has a wider remit will be able to fulfil our purpose and and it is our belief that during times of and a stated mission to enhance the ambitions for the collection. A purchase polarised politics and global uncertainty enjoyment and understanding of 20th late in 2018 opened our eyes to Gerald art can help people navigate their lives, and 21st century British art. We have Leslie Brockhurst RA (1890–1978). His providing clues to the past and comfort and inspiration to the present.
6 Jerwood Annual Reports 2018 7 Jerwood Collection Loans and Exhibitions Loans and Adrian Heath (1920 – 1992) Composition Red, Black and Grey, 1957 Jerwood Collection: 25 Years Exhibitions Jerwood Gallery, Hastings For full details see Jan – April 2018 jerwoodcollectiononline Photo: © Pete Jones
We were pleased to loan works to a number of UK venues during the year including: Tate St Ives; Mead Gallery, Coventry; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol; Frieze Masters, London; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Drawing Room, London; and The Ambulatory at the Mercers’ Company, London. John Piper (1903 – 1992) Beach and Star Fish, Seven Sisters’ Cliff, Eastbourne Alongside the special anniversary 1933 – 34 shows and loans we also partnered John Piper, Mead Gallery, Warwick with other organisations to enable May – June 2018 exhibitions including: The Art of Photo: © Francis Ware Collecting, Mall Galleries, London (July) curated by Selina Skipwith, which celebrated the rich and diverse collections of a group of art and artist trusts and foundations; Show Women, Michael Ayrton (1921 – 1975) Gibberd Gallery, Harlow (August- Talos, Armed Head II, 1957 October); Darkness into Light: The Emotional Power of Art, Museums Dame Elizabeth Frink RA (1930 – 1993) Sheffield (October 2018-January 2019) Harbinger Bird I, 1961 in partnership with Fleming Collection and Ingram Collection alongside Leon Kossoff (b.1926) Woman Resting (The artist’s mother), circa 1963 Darkness Into Light: The Emotional Power of Art, Museums Sheffield, exploring how art 25 Works for 25 Years: Celebrating the Jerwood Dod Procter RA (1890 – 1972) Millennium Gallery, Sheffield makes us feel; and Sculpted: The Art of Collection Lilian, 1923 October 2018 – January 2019 the Object in partnership with Lyon & Sotheby’s, London In Relation: Nine Couples who Transformed Photo: © Millennium Gallery, Sheffield Turnbull (November-December) an June 2018 Modern British Art exhibition demonstrating the diversity Photo: © Pete Jones Royal West of England Academy, Bristol and quality of the sculptural form. June – September 2018 Photo: Royal West of England Academy Our partnership with the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust also enabled Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: Sea, Rock, Earth and Ice, which included Winter Landscape 1952 from Jerwood Collection to travel to Graves Gallery Sheffield (December 2018-March 2019) having been shown at Jerwood Gallery, Hastings (June-October).
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903 – 1975) Study for Lisa (Hands to Face), 1949 Lara Wardle, Director Barbara Hepworth: Formed from Nature, @jerwoodcollection Dickinson Private Advisors and Fine Art Dealers, Frieze Masters, October 2018. Photo: © Alex Fox
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Chairman & Director’s Report
2018 brought a new Director and with it of expertise; and funding artists, artist a review of our values, which resulted in groups and artist-led organisations to a new Strategic Plan to be implemented undertake research and development 2019 – 2022. 2018 also saw a number of and create new work. Together these will extraordinary projects come to fruition. provide a diverse range of transformative opportunities for artists, curators and Our core vision remains dedicated to producers to thrive. imaginative and responsible funding 650 of the arts, with a particular focus on While modest compared to other individuals and discovering, developing and promoting trusts and foundations, Arts Council 132 organisations the most outstanding artists of all England and Government, we are supported in 2018 disciplines and backgrounds. We mindful that our funding approach has will provide transformative awards, the potential to make a difference not opportunities and programmes, just to artists at an individual level, but empowering artists and arts to influence best practice in creating organisations to make new work and a more accessible and sustainable to develop with integrity. To achieve arts sector for the future. This is this we are committed to listening and particularly powerful when we work in responding to the needs of artists and partnership to maximise the impact of arts organisations, to interrogating how our funding, and 2018 saw a number and what we fund, and to continuing to of imaginative collaborations deliver grow and change as an organisation. some outstanding projects. Without £1.96m partnerships like these and the many was spent on charitable The plan recognises our focus on important relationships we hold and activities in 2018 clarifying and refreshing our core value, we simply could not achieve mission: to seek, through our funding what we do. and expertise, to improve the conditions for early-career artists of all kinds and Below we highlight some of the standout backgrounds to develop their practice projects that culminated in 2018. and make ambitious new work. The first edition of the Jerwood Compton We will do this through a unique balance Poetry Fellowships saw Raymond of funding and delivery: combining direct Antrobus, Jane Commane and Jackie Opposite: support to artists through bursaries and Hagan go from strength to strength Happy Happy Leaf, 2018 by Rae-Yen Song national call for entry awards within during a supported year of development Installation view as part of Survey. Photo: Anna Arca specific disciplines; through funding with a grant of £15k each and no leading arts organisations to deliver strings attached. Each achieved new development programmes in their field milestones in their careers including:
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Below: Jerwood Compton Fellows 2017 – 2018 Raymond Antrobus’ The Perseverance Photoworks Awards at Jerwood Space Left to right (featured) Jackie Hagan, Raymond being selected as a Poetry Book of the and on tour. Jerwood Solo Presentations Antrobus, Jane Commane. Year 2018 by both The Sunday Times and featured new work by Rob Crosse, Photo: Lee Townsend The Guardian; Jackie Hagan winning a Susie Green and Georgia Horgan. Our Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word 3-Phase project developed throughout Opposite: Show and Jane Commane publishing the year, featuring new work by Larry Where We Belong, 2017 Installation view, by Alejandra Carles-Tolra How To Be a Poet and her first poetry Achiampong, Mark Essen and Nicola Commissioned for Jerwood/Photoworks Awards. collection Assembly Lines. Singh curated in new ways at Eastside Supported by Jerwood Arts and Photoworks. Projects, Birmingham and WORKPLACE, Photo: Anna Arca We launched Survey, a major group Newcastle. exhibition of 15 early-career artists from across the UK nominated by established Then there were our co-commissions artists. This brought significant attention with 14-18 NOW which saw three female to individual artists and highlighted artists under 30 responding to the our expertise in understanding the centenary of the Representation of the challenges of becoming established People Act: Selina Thompson developed in the visual arts. We are proud to be Sortition at Arnolfini in Bristol, Rachel taking Survey on a national tour from Maclean’s film Make Me Up premiered g39 in Cardiff to Bluecoat, Liverpool and at the London Film Festival before being Baltic, Newcastle in 2019. broadcast on BBC4 and at screenings across the UK, and Deborah ‘Debris’ With our partners Film and Video Stevenson’s Poet in da Corner debuted Umbrella (FVU) we made two at the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, commissions of £20k for new moving- Royal Court Theatre and was nominated image works by Maeve Brennan and for the prestigious Evening Standard Imran Perretta, the recipients of the fifth Theatre Awards for Best Emerging edition of the Jerwood/FVU Awards Talent. on the theme of ‘Going, Gone…’, which launched at Jerwood Space before The third and most ambitious edition touring nationally. We presented new of the Weston Jerwood Creative photographic works by three early- Bursaries Programme, with 40 throughout 2018 and into 2019. This of the Panic! report into longitudinal 10 years of establishing their artistic career artists, Alejandra Carles-Tolra, talented recent graduates from lower edition has been amplified by a visionary inequalities in the arts, which practice; we are interested in process Sam Laughlin and Lua Ribeira, for income backgrounds placed in 39 partnership with the British Council and encouraged the sector to look again and outcome; and we fund individuals the second edition of the Jerwood/ arts organisations across the UK, ran funding from Arts Council England’s at who gets access to opportunities as well as organisations of all kinds. Ambition for Excellence fund, Garfield and how. There has been a definitive These core USPs will remain. What has Weston Foundation, CHK Charities shift in both discourse and practice in changed is our name, we now refer to Limited and PRS Foundation, and has 2018 as a result, and our new strategy ourselves as simply Jerwood Arts. This allowed us to widen the opportunities seeks to ensure that Jerwood Arts sets our direction of travel towards being available to the participants. These remains ahead of the curve. Behind a more inclusive, transformative funder. included: a group trip to the Avignon the scenes there have been a number Festival in July; a bespoke Ideas Fund of changes to the team: we welcomed to which they could apply to develop Harriet Cooper as Maternity Cover for their own projects and direct their Sarah Williams, Head of Visual Arts, professional development following appointed Lauren Houlton as Gallery the end of the programme; and 15 Manager, Mirren Kessling as Events and international placements of two to Audience Engagement Co-ordinator; and four weeks across Europe, facilitating Nathalie Teitler as Project Manager for exchange and new partnerships, and the second edition of Jerwood Compton Tim Eyles, Chairman supporting cross-cultural cooperation. Poetry Fellowships, commencing in Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries spring 2019. was also used as a case study in the influential Kings College/Arts By the nature of our investment, we Council England review of leadership must take a long view on impact. development in the arts, highlighting Our funding is often a critical part of how its unique structure and approach the puzzle that enables the artists of galvanises the careers of individuals the future to find their voices, and it Lilli Geissendorfer, Director who might otherwise be unable to gain a can leverage sectoral change, further foothold in the arts. financial support or formal recognition for artists and projects. The social, political and economic backdrop to our strategic review We are a small but distinct foundation jerwoodarts.org year was characterised by ongoing with a unique profile amongst arts @JerwoodArts uncertainty and, in many areas of life, funders. We continue to work across increasing division. Within the arts the UK and across art forms; we are sector, it included the publication focussed on those within the first
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Poet in da Corner, 2018 by Deborah ‘Debris’ Stevenson (featured) Co-commissioned by 14 – 18 NOW and Royal Court Theatre, supported by Jerwood Arts Photo: Vicky Grout
Opposite top: Imran Perretta, 15 days, 2018 Commissioned for Jerwood/FVU Awards 2018: Unintended Consequences. Installation View. Photo: Anna Arca.
Opposite bottom: Alumni Gemma Connell and Andrew Hughes Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries, 2017 – 19 Photo: Outroslide Photography
Grants Awarded in 2018*
ARC Stockton: 154 Collective £20,000 Arvon: Jerwood/Arvon Mentoring Programme 2019/2020 £58,900 Block9: Research and Development £10,000 Coney: Associate Artist Development £10,000 FVU: Jerwood FVU Awards 2020 Hindsight £56,500 Glyndebourne: Jerwood Young Artists 2019 £30,000 High Rise Theatre Company: Lil.Miss.Lady £9,524 Jerwood Makers Open 2019 £91,690 Jerwood Solo Presentations 2019 £15,650 Jerwood Staging Series 2019 £8,920 Manchester International Festival: Jerwood Creative Fellows 2019 £36,589 Marlborough Theatre: New Queers on the Block £10,000 OTO Projects: UK Artists Residency Fund £9,600 Phoenix Dance Theatre: Choreographers and Composers Lab £33,080 Photoworks: Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2020 £40,000 Royal Court Theatre: Jerwood New Playwrights 2019 £50,000 Serious: Take Five Edition XIV £22,000 Southbank Sinfonia: #ConcertLab £10,000 Terrestrial: Weston-Super-Mare £30,000 Yorkshire Dance: Dance for Art’s Sake £78,000 Young Vic: Jerwood Assistant Directors Program 2019 £40,000
* Approved by the Jerwood Arts Board of Trustees during 2018.
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Chairman & Director’s Report
September 2018 marked our 20th plays by Noel Coward. Trust, directed anniversary and gave us a chance to by Jude Christian for The Gate Theatre, reflect on the intervening years, and to managed to cram 16 disparate but linked celebrate our contribution towards the scenes into one 100 minute long show at creative world we support. the start of the year.
Our first 12 months in 1998 housed Jamie Lloyd returned for three shows 165 productions and, as the appetite of his Pinter at The Pinter season, a for theatre has grown, with audience retrospective of all of Pinter’s one act figures increasing year on year, so too plays, with direction for the first two has our capacity and reputation over the shows being shared between Jamie and corresponding period. Lia Williams. The practical support we received from Jerwood Well over 300 productions rehearsed At the other end of the scale, but and workshopped during 2018, far too no less ambitious, were a series of Space gave us the ideal many to list here, so we’ve selected a one performer shows that rehearsed space to create. It’s the snapshot for this report. throughout 2018. We were pleased to welcome back Linda Marlowe for her perfect place to rehearse. Theatrical scope and ambition ran science fiction touring show Overdrive, throughout the year, both within the written and directed by Di Sherlock. – Katie Mitchell, Director commercial and subsidised sector. DEM Productions’ Dust, a show exploring the impact of suicide on those Director Stephen Daldry took a left behind written by Milly Thomas mammoth eight weeks rehearsal with and directed by Sara Joyce, went to us at the start of 2018 for his production the Trafalgar Studios after a run in of Matthew Lopez’s The Inheritance for Edinburgh. We also hosted rehearsals for the Young Vic, two plays with running China Plate Theatre’s new one woman times of over three hours each. We show about US gun violence, On The were pleased to be able to subsidise the Exhale, by Martin Zimmerman, directed whole rehearsal period in Space 7. by former Gate Theatre Artistic Director Christopher Haydon. China Plate and Shakespeare’s Globe took space for Chris Haydon returned for David Edgar’s Brendan O’Hea’s concurrent productions one-man touring show, Trying It On and of Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Ben SantaMaria wrote and directed a Shrew and Twelfth Night, which toured one-man show, Really Want To Hurt Me, after playing at The Globe. The audience which rehearsed here before heading to initially chose which production would the Old Red Lion. Opposite: play each night, quite a feat for the Left to right (featured): company. A similarly daunting task Sam Yates returned with a staging of John Leader and Louis Marshall in faced director Tom Littler in March as Paul Muldoon’s Incantata, for the Galway rehearsal for Paulette Randall’s Doctor Faustus at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. he rehearsed Tonight at 8.30 for Jermyn Festival, a production with Stanley Photo: Marc Brenner Street Theatre, a series of nine one act Townsend as the sole performer.
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The cast of Company in rehearsals, directed by Marianne Elliott. Photo: Helen Maybanks
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The Globe featured throughout the and directed by Nina Raine and the rehearsals for Chichester Festival Theatre’s new musical Women in Power, participated in a session that took year. Their production of Matt Hartley’s Young Vic was also represented by John Theatre, including Copenhagen, directed directed by Blanche McIntyre and based refugee experiences of migration and Eyam, directed by Adele Thomas, about R Wilkinson’s production of Jon Fosse’s by Michael Blakemore, Flowers For Mrs on Aristophanes’ The Assembly Women displacement as a starting point for the effects of the plague on a small Winter for The Clare. Harris, directed by Daniel Evans and a also rehearsed here. Theatre Royal considering the politics of international Derbyshire village in 1665 found space new adaptation by Bryony Lavery of Bath’s The Price, Arthur Miller’s play borders. In addition, we hosted children here, as did Dr Faustus, directed by New producer/writer/actor, 18 year David Walliams’ Midnight Gang, directed about two estranged brothers directed from The Oxford & Bermondsey Club to Paulette Randall for the Sam Wanamaker old George Jaques, rehearsed his play by Dale Rooks. Chichester was also by Jonathan Church, with Brendan Coyle record their own radio show, which was Playhouse, and Finn Caldwell and Toby Breathe for The Bunker, directed by represented by Charlotte Jones’ The and David Suchet (who featured twice broadcast on local station Resonance Olie’s version of The Four Seasons, with a Hannah Hauer-King, which received Meeting, directed by Natalie Abrahami, this year as he also appeared in Pinter FM. Our thanks to Holly Graham for new score by Max Richter. accolades from Baz Bamigboye amongst and their rehearsals included a visit from Two) and The Model Apartment, directed organising all of these events. others, and Edward Lambert’s company a London based group of Quakers to by Laurence Boswell, both took space. At the larger end of the commercial scale, The Music Troupe rehearsed his new help put the play in context. We also squeezed in The Watermill As ever, our thanks also goes to our we took recasts for Hamilton, The Lion chamber opera The Cloak and Dagger Theatre’s production of Twelfth Night, tireless staff, both full-time and part- King, Aladdin, Book of Mormon, War Horse Affair for the Tête à Tête Festival. We Other shows outside London were Patrick Barlow’s The Messiah and, from time. They give so much to all we do and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and were also pleased to welcome back Told plentiful through the year. We further afield, a workshop for Improbable and achieve. we were also pleased to host rehearsals By An Idiot who workshopped a new took Adam Penford’s first show as of Satyagraha for LA Opera. Katie for Marianne Elliott’s gender switching show, and also helped Tom Burke with Nottingham Playhouse Artistic Director, Mitchell returned to workshop a new As we enter our third decade, we version of Stephen Sondheim and George space for his production of Don Carlos. Wonderland, written by Beth Steel, show for Theatre des Bouffes du Nord, hope we can continue to support and Furth’s Company. Michael Grandage and Nottingham also held rehearsals and rehearsed The Norma Jean Project represent the best of British theatre helmed Martin McDonagh’s Lieutenant Theatre 503 returned for Tearrance for James Fritz’s Lava, directed by for Alex Poots’ inaugural season at The across the entire industry, as we have of Inishmore, with Aiden Turner, and Arvelle Chisholm’s Br’er Cotton, directed Angharad Jones. Cameron Mackintosh Shed in New York, with Renée Fleming done consistently over the previous 20 Jonathan Munby’s production of Frozen by Roy Alexander Weise, a play rehearsed the touring production of and Ben Whishaw. years. Top: by Bryony Lavery, with Suranne Jones and exploring issues around growing up in Les Miserables and we were able to find Left to right (featured) Charlie Murphy and Aidan Turner in Jason Watkins also rehearsed with us. today’s United States, and Jermyn Street space for Theatre Royal Plymouth and Choreographers Stephen Mear and rehearsals for Michael Grandage Company’s Theatre Associate Director Stella Powell- their production of Clockwork Canaries, Akram Khan both made appearances The Lieutenant of Inishmore The first West End try-out for Nadim Jones rehearsed two new shows with directed by Luke Kernaghan, and the during the year, as did most of Strictly Photo: Marc Brenner Naaman’s version of Lebanese poet us; Boo Killebrew’s The Play About My touring production of Art, directed by Come Dancing for the BBC, all alongside Khalil Gibran’s autobiographical musical Dad, and Parents’ Evening by Bathsheba Ellie Jones. Metta Theatre’s version of subsidised rehearsals for various Chris Cotton, Chairman Bottom: Broken Wings, directed by Bronagh Doran. Jermyn Street Theatre was also The Little Mermaid took a few weeks in performers in The Place’s Resolution The School House at Jerwood Space run by The Gentlemen Baristas Lagan, spent time here, as did the Royal represented with About Leo by Alice Space 7 before embarking on a short Festival. Photo: The GB’s Court Theatre’s Cuttin’ It, a new play Allemano. It was a pleasure to welcome tour, and we also rehearsed Pasha about FGM written by Jerwood New Sir Ian McKellen back to Jerwood Space Kovalev’s dance extravaganza The We were pleased to run workshops Playwright Charlotte James and directed as he reprised his role in Chichester Magic of Hollywood. We welcomed back throughout the year in conjunction with by Gbolahan Obisesan, and, also for the Festival Theatre’s production of King Lear Blesma for another set of rehearsals for Jerwood Arts’ exhibition and events Royal Court, Sam Prichard’s production of for Duke of York’s Theatre, directed by The Drive Project in schools up and down programme. Amongst others, pupils Peter Wilkinson, Director Jerwood New Playwright Rory Mullarkey’s Jonathan Munby. the country. Opera Della Luna returned from Charles Dickens primary school Pity in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs. for two different shows in partnership and Salmon Youth Centre benefitted jerwoodspace.co.uk We also took a week-long rehearsal for Not all of the shows we hosted were with Buxton Festival – Candide and from workshops run by practicing artists, @JerwoodSpace Stories at the National Theatre, written destined for London. We took several Daughter of the Regiment and Nuffield and the Bradfield Club in Peckham @jerwood_space
18 Jerwood Annual Reports 2018 19 Opposite top: Opposite middle: This page top: The company in rehearsals for Sonia Friedman’s Khalid Daley, Elizabeth Stretton and Dame Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw in Celebrating 20 Years Dreamgirls directed by Casey Nicholaw Kiran Landa in rehearsals for War Horse, rehearsals for Peter and Alice, directed by Photo: Johan Persson directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris Michael Grandage Photo: Ellie Kurttz Photo: Marc Brenner Opposite bottom: This page bottom: The company rehearsing Chichester Gillian Anderson in rehearsals for The Young Festival Theatre’s Half a Sixpence directed Vic’s A Streetcar Named Desire directed by by Rachel Kavanaugh Benedict Andrews Photo: Manuel Harlan Photo: Johan Persson
2,278 different performing arts companies have rehearsed here over the last 20 years
I had such a gorgeous experience rehearsing at Jerwood, I felt welcome the moment I entered the building. I was comfortable sitting in the café nursing multiple cups of coffee desperately trying to learn lines. Outside my own rehearsal experience there I would often visit friends on their breaks too. It’s places like this that are a beacon for jobbing actors. We rarely have a constant, we are always on the move and thrown into new dynamics, different spaces, places, whole new sets of people and knowing you can always pop into Jerwood and see some friendly faces is so important, so valuable. Peter and his team have set such a gorgeous tone. – Charlie Murphy, Actor, Lieutenant of Inishmore
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2,000 children and young people visited the “A great example of how an artist can use references from past artworks and yet gallery via schools programmes make unique, powerful contemporary work that has a meaningful message…” in 2018 – Visitor to Barbara Walker: Vanishing Point
The founding mission of the Jerwood The gallery has established a regular Top: Paul Feiler: One Hundred Years In 2018, the gallery joined the National loans from The National Gallery, as well Top left: Maggi Hambling Self Portrait Gallery was to display the Jerwood footfall of 50,000 visitors each year, ©Pete Jones Portfolio of Arts Council England, as new and unseen works by artists such © Jerwood Gallery Collection and to show the very best of and through additional learning and Middle left: Liz Gilmore and Balraj building on the achievements enabled as Gus Cummins, Balraj Khanna, Henry Top right: Maggi Hambling and Barbara Walker modern and contemporary British art participation activities works closely Khanna at the Private View of Balraj by Jerwood Foundation’s support and Krokatsis, Ivan Jones, Paul Feiler, Mark at the Private View of The Quick and the Dead: to the widest possible audience. This with local schools successfully bringing Khanna: The Great Wall of Small is also that of Hastings Borough Council. Wallinger, Barbara Walker, Sir Quentin Hambling – Horsley – Lucas – Simmons – Teller and has been achieved and continuously over 2,000 children and young people to Beautiful The gallery has continued to champion Blake, Julian Simmons, Sebastian Barbara Walker: Vanishing Point ©Pete Jones © Jerwood Gallery built upon through a programme of the gallery annually through qualitative modern and contemporary art in an Horsley, Sarah Lucas, Juergen Teller and exhibitions, events and learning; and outreach activities. Middle right: Sounds in Unexpected extensive programme of exhibitions Maggi Hambling. Bottom left: Solimena from Barbara Walker: Places with Bev Lee Harling Vanishing Point drawing, where appropriate, upon the ©Lens and Pixel and displays in the wonderful and © Pete Jones Jerwood Collection as inspiration for Since opening, the gallery’s programme acclaimed gallery space on the beach With increasing loyalty, the gallery Bottom: Maria Balshaw, Mark Bottom right: Nigel Cooke in his studio its exhibitions. of exhibitions, events and learning has Wallinger, David Pennock and Liz in Hastings. Drawing on the rich artistic has been supported by generous © Lens and Pixel been nationally acclaimed. Highlights Gilmore at the Private View of Mark heritage of Hastings and the South East, donations from its Benefactors and Since 2012, Jerwood’s financial support include exhibitions profiling Rose Wallinger: The Human Figure in Space and engaging with the town’s growing Director’s Circle supporters and its of £2.6m has made an immense Wylie, Chantal Joffe, Rachel Howard, ©Pete Jones creative community the gallery will, 3,000 Members as well as other major contribution to Hastings, successfully Paula Rego, Ansel Krut, Jake and Dinos going forward, continue to cultivate donors, artists and galleries, Art Fund embedding a public art institution on the Chapman, Basil Beattie, Keith Tyson and a greater national and international Weston Loan programme, Children and seafront and transforming the cultural Mark Wallinger, as well as Edward Burra, profile, touring landmark exhibitions and the Arts and local important trusts and landscape of the town. William Scott, Alfred Wallis, Marlow commissioning new work. foundations. Benefactor’s and Director’s jerwoodgallery.org Moss and LS Lowry. Circle membership gives the opportunity @JerwoodGallery In 2018, the gallery was thrilled to be to enjoy behind the scenes access to the @jerwoodgallery able to display historic works including artists and their studios. JerwoodGallery
22 Jerwood Annual Reports 2018 23 Deborah ‘Debris’ Stevenson, Writer, grime poet and performer Photo: Matt Writtle/eyevine
Poet in da Corner by Deborah ‘Debris’ Stevenson was part of Represent, a series of artworks inspired by the Representation of the People Act 1918. While the Act gave the vote only to women over 30, Represent invited three young female artists Jerwood Foundation under 30 to explore democracy, equality and Jerwood Holdings Limited inclusion in contemporary Britain. The selected artists and organisations were: Deborah ‘Debris’ PO Box 83, Ordnance House Stevenson, working with Royal Court; Rachel 31 Pier Road Maclean working with NVA; and Selina Thompson, St Helier working with Arnolfini. Jersey JE4 8PW
Poet in da Corner was directed by Ola Ince and was Registered Foundation 293 performed in Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Registered Company 119113 Court Theatre, 21 September – 6 October 2018.
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Printed on Elemental Chlorine Free (ECF) woodfree pulp sourced from sustainable forests. Design by TurnbullGrey Make Me Up by Rachel Maclean was part of Represent, a series It received its world premiere in London on 12 October 2018 as part of works inspired by the Representation of the People Act 1918. of the BFI London Film Festival, was screened in cinemas and arts While the Act gave the vote only to women over 30, Represent centres throughout the autumn and was broadcast on BBC 4 as part invited young female artists to explore democracy, equality of Arena on 4 November 2018. and inclusion in contemporary Britain. The selected artists and organisations were: Deborah ‘Debris’ Stevenson, working with “In a riotous denouement, Maclean unleashes a volley of voices Royal Court; Rachel Maclean working with NVA; and Selina questioning feminism today and in the recent past.” Thompson, working with Arnolfini. – Ben Luke, Evening Standard
Written, designed, edited and directed by Rachel Maclean, “Maclean’s film is ambitious, weaving suffrage into the fabric of Make Me Up was produced by Hopscotch Films with NVA, contemporary feminist issues”– Tara Judah, film critic, BFI Make Me Up is a major commission for the BBC, Creative Scotland and 14–18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, supported by Featured: Rachel Maclean as Figurehead (front cover) Jerwood Arts, the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery and Christina Gordon as Siri (back cover). Fund, and by the Department of Digital, Culture Media and Sport. Photo (still): Courtesy of the artist © Rachel Maclean