Beacon 2008
Kesteven & Sleaford High School Residency - Kelly Large
Kelly Large was selected to work with the school in this year's residency, which began in autumn 2008. An outcome of this will be a public event in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, during the last week of April 2009. The event will be filmed and a public screening of the film will be held during June 2009. Dates and details will be confirmed and announced on the website.
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Beacon at the Brown Mountain Festival, London
WAYNE LLOYD. Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde
Thursday 16 October 2008 was the launch of the Brown Mountain Festival in London. Wayne Lloyd's performance, Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde, produced by Beacon was part of this launch event. See below for images from the perfomance.
To learn more about the Brown Mountain Festival click here.
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Kalemegdan Bridge Collaboration
RICHARD DEACON MRDJAN BAJIC
Richard Deacon and Mrdjan Bajic working on the initial designs in Belgrade, July 2008
Exciting new public art project for the City of Belgrade
Beacon, in association with Handel Street Projects, supported The Kalmegdan Bridge Collaboration between British sculptor, Richard Deacon and Serbian sculptor, Mrdjan Bajic. The artists came together in Belgrade in July and September 2008 to work on the design of a new footbridge in Belgrade. The proposed bridge will connect Kalemegdan Fortress with the promenade by the confluence of rivers Sava and Danube over a busy road bringing to the City of Belgrade a landmark structure at a very symbolic place which was a border between east and west.
The collaboration was the first stage of the creation of a major landmark for the City of Belgrade, and was the first time since the 19th Century that an artist from another country has been involved in the production of a public monument in Belgrade. In 1873 Florentine, Enrico Paci came to Belgrade to start the work on the monument to Prince Mihailo Obrenovic, who ordered the creation of Kalemegdan Park in 1867.
Fedja Klikovac, of Handel Street Projects will curate an exhibition in 2009 at the Kalemegdan (Belgrade) Fortress, a heritage site, dating back to Roman times, adjacent to the proposed site of the bridge. The exhibition will show the outcomes of the two weeks collaboration between Deacon and Bajic and will include a topographical model of the site, model(s) of the bridge design together with associated drawings and other material. It is planned that the exhibition will then be staged in the East Midlands in the UK in 2010 at a venue to be confirmed.
Deacon and Bajic represented Wales and Serbia, respectively at the 2007 Venice Biennale. Richard Deacon has been at the forefront of British sculpture since the seventies. In 1987 he was awarded the Turner Prize and showed in many prestigious art galleries and events around the world including Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Tate Gallery, Museum of Modern Art New York, Biennal de Sao Paulo, Sculptur Projekte in Munster, The Biennale of Sydney, Documenta Kassel etc. Since 1983, he's been represented and regularly shown at Lisson Gallery, London.
Mrdjan Bajic came to prominence in the eighties Belgrade and since then produced a vast body of work in rather different circumstances: from the lively post Tito Yugoslavia, to the isolated nineties wartime and at present new start for independent Serbia. His work was always embedded in the social practice and its effects, questioning and giving answers to the position of the artist in society. His work has been shown internationally from early in his career including 1990 Aperto, La Biennale di Venezia, Kunsthalle Wien, The Biennale of Sydney, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Biennal di Sao Paulo, Artists Space New York etc.
This first stage of the project was been made possible by the grant from The Henry Moore Foundation applied for by Beacon. Beacon has been a conduit for this project in line with its mission to support artsits at all stages of their careers. It is also part of Beacon's mission to work with artists on international projects, which will be made visible to a UK audience through an exhibition to be hosted in the UK. Funding partners in Belgrade were JP Belgrade Fortress and The City of Belgrade.
August 2008
Images of the project's development... 
For further information and images please contact:
John Plowman info@beaconartproject.com
www.beaconartproject.com
Clare Munro info@handelstreetprojects.com
www.handelstreetprojects.com 
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