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. 2 Jerwood Annual Reports 2018 1 Photos: Charlotte Bromley-Davenport and Phil Adams 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 2 Jerwood Annual Reports 2018 3 Jerwood Foundation Chairman & Executive Directors’ Report 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.