::BEACON NEWS::

June and July 2010
Beacon and The National Trust are offering Free Entry to the Scion Artist Lunchtime Talks at Barrington Court for non-National Trust members with a voucher downloaded from the Beacon site. Please note the voucher must be printed out and presented to validate this offer.
Click here to download your voucher

Profusion at National Trust Calke Abbey, Derbyshire launched on
Saturday 19 June and is on until Sunday 11 July.

Jack Strange in The Riding School
Emily, Callum, Johnm Grace, Elizabeth, Paul, 2009

John Plowman, The Saw Pit
tpdgbttm, 2010

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Jimmie Durham, The Ice house
Smashing, 2004

Scion It is with great enthusiasm that Beacon began work on Scion this month, a partnership with the National Trust to develop a sixteen month programme of
visual art activity at Barrington Court in Somerset. To begin the programme
Beacon has commissioned artist Lyndall Phelps to work on a residency at
Barrington Court with the staff and volunteers. This will commence this month.

On 29 June at 1.30pm the first of the artist lunchtime talks took place to accompany the first Artwork of the Month. Artist Lyndall Phelps spoke about her artwork, Gently Enticing. This was held at Barrington Court. The talks will take place on the last Tuesday of every month.

Beacon Bimonthlies This is a programme of bimonthly evening art events that will take place in Lincolnshire. With support from Arts NK, Lincolnshire County Council andLouth Naturalists Antiquarian & Literary Society, the programme launched on 1 July
Photos: Daniel Warren

Gillian Dyson
Still Life

view of Still Life entering Louth Mansion House

A one day only commissioned art event at
The Mansion House, Upgate, Louth LN11 9ET

Still Life, Gillian Dyson

Artist Gillian Dyson created a unique artwork in response to the heritage of the empty Georgian building. This was exhibited in a one-day only art event to which the public was invited to attend and participate.

The artist’s Still Life was unlike traditional representations in paint. Made up instead from local produce; lost artifacts from the museum archive; real and artifical momento mori; text; sound; light and shadow. She said, “it is about response and suggestion, reflecting on a given site, context or audience. I work with history, imagination, the playful and the violent.” Audience members were able to explore the Mansion House and view the artwork. They were invited to create their own responses to Still Life, whether in the form of sketches or other media such as poetry. These were displayed in the hall, becoming a part of the Still Life.

Commissioned by Beacon Art Project, Still Life also marked the launch of
The Louth Mansion House Project to transform this grade II* listed building,
built in c. 1750 for assemblies, musical events and exhibitions into an arts centre of significance.

Beacon Bimonthlies will take place in three Lincolnshire districts: East Lindsey; North Kesteven and West Lindsey, hosted where possible in unusual heritage locations within the community, not usually open to the public. The events will feature presentations from invited guest artists, taking the form of performances, powerpoints, film screenings or talks. Audience members will also be invited to participate, by showing examples of their own works and responding to the host venues for presentation at future meetings. Audience members will not be restricted to the visual arts although invited guest speakers will be visual artists.

Final preparations for Profusion are well under way. Please book onto the return coach
if you live in the East Midlands and don't have transport. It's a tricky place to get to
without a car and the deal is a good one. Spread the word!

Harald Smykla has begun his residency at Calke, making dental sculpture portraits from
apples of the staff and volunteers.

Photos: John Plowman

Meanwhile we still need more volunteers to join the team, so please get in touch if you have
any spare time to assist with Profusion this summer: info@beaconartproject.com

Coming this week....tickets for the bus service to Profusion will be on sale here at the end of the week...and vouchers for discounted entrance to the exhbition will be downloadable from the website too....

New trustee appointed
Sibyl Burgess has been appointed to join Beacon's board of trustees.

New Intern appointed
Tom Cretney has this month joined the Beacon team as intern.

New Funding Partner: Beacon's bid for a Derbyshire Community Grant was successful, which is great news as it enables Beacon's new team member, Debra Hall to start plans for Profusion's Community Workshop Strand in her capacity as workshop co-ordinator.

Dates have now been confirmed for the project at Calke Abbey, Ticknall, Derbyshire, DE73 7LE
Details will be posted in January 2010.

Four Weekends guided tours of the Exhibition: 19/20 June, 26/27 June, 3/4 June, 10/11 July
More details to follow

Daniel Warren will be continuing with the Beacon team as Project Assistant from January 2010.

Beacon is honoured to have been appointed curatorial partner to work closely with the National Trust on a project over the next sixteen months at this unique property in Somerset, near Ilminster.

Kelly Large Limited Edition Publication Out Now

Funded by The University of Lincoln, this publication continues the work of artist kelly Large that took place earlier this year. To receive your free copy of this limited edition publication please send a stamped addressed A5 normal envelope to:

Beacon,
Reading Room & Chapel,
High Street, Wellingore,
Lincoln LN5 0HW

Copies will be posted out in the week of the 18th January 2010

Beacon was delighted to be invited to take part in The Learning Revolution Festival, a celebration of informal learning and the pleasure and benefit it can bring to us all. The festival took place throughout England during October 2009.

In line with one of Beacon's aims of 'taking the audience to the art' a free return coach was provided to offer transport to residents in the area.

The final preparations were made for the screening of HINTERLAND Melissa Bliss, a new film commission, on Sunday 20 September. The screening took place every hour from 12.00-17.00 with guided tours of The Leciester Children's Holiday Centre taking place every half hour from 12.30-17.30. The guided tours of this wonderful heritage building were a unique opportunity as it is not usually open to the public.

Melissa Bliss has been working on the final shots for HINTERLAND a new film commission which will be screened on SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2009

The screening will take place at the fantastic Leicester Children's Holiday Centre in Mablethorpe, one of the oldest charities in Leicester, which operates to offer holidays to disadvantaged children during the summer holidays.

Here's the breathtaking view from the path which runs directly from the centre to the beach

Igniting Ambition Beacon is pleased to have been successful in an application to the Igniting Ambition 2010 Three Cities Plus funding programme. This funding is towards a project scheduled to take place at National Trust Calke Abbey, Derbyshire in June 2011.

Charity Status. Beacon is delighted to announce that it has been registered for charity status.

Kelly Large - Our Name is Legion Preview and Panel Discussion
The preveiw of Our Name is Legion a new film by Kelly Large was shown at the Hub, Sleaford on Friday 19 June 09

A resulting publication will be produced in November 2009. Please email us if you would be interested in receiving a copy.

THANK YOU- Beacon would like to thank everyone who helped to realise Our Name is Legion. In particular our thanks goes to Beacon's two fantastic interns Daniel Warren and Charlotte Pratley who have assisted the organisation reliably and cheerfully since September 2008.

Apart from the funding partners Beacon's Projects are also made possible with support beyond that. Beacon and Kelly Large would like to thank :

The excellent volunteers who helped us on the day to make sure the event was a success and who contributed photos: Roy Pearce, Maddie Richardson, Lorraine McKenna, Jennifer Hackett, Thomas Cuthbertson, Sarah Elson, John Plowman with a special thanks to Chris Bird. The student volunteers who participated in the filming: Ross Wilson, Yikira M Whalley, Vicky palframan, Laura Sutton, Allan McDonald, Melanie Nicolson, Sophia Ellen, Sam Short, Tom Richards, Danny Pryor and others who helped with the organisation: Abbie Swirles + friends, Phili Moore + friends, Lis Silvester + friends, Lauren Therlow, Peter George Robinson, Ashika + friends,

Support on the day and since autumn 08 was also provided by all the students and staff at Kesteven and Sleaford High School; all the students and staff at Carre's Grammar School.

Paul Letchworth, Richard Knight, Barbara Gray, Alison Ross and the 'A' level art group at Kesteven and Sleaford High School; Theresa Angus, Mr John Kyte , Mr. Nick Law, Pete Robinson and Danny Pryor at Carre's Grammar School.

Trevor Stevenson and Kathryn Henshaw at Nottingham Community Housing Association.

Reverend Jeremy Cullimore, Reverend Patrick and Anne Smillie-Pearson at St. Denys Church.

working in partnership with East Lindsey, Beacon has been selected to produce a visual art project around Mablethorpe and has commissioned artist Melissa Bliss. She will begin work in June 2009.

Took place in Sleaford in April.
A film of the artwork will be previewed on:
Friday 19 June 2009, 6-8pm
at
The Hub, Sleaford, Lincolnshire.
This will include a panel discussion with the artist.

This event is open to the public. Places are limited, to ensure
you don't miss out, please book a place by emailing Beacon:

In November 2008, Beacon Art Project commissioned artist Kelly Large to take up residence at Kesteven & Sleaford High School and produce an art work in response to this educational context located within a historic, rural town.

She observed the school day, where roughly between the hours of 8.30 am - 3.30 pm, the pupils' movements and behaviours are precisely managed and contained within the school's boundaries. Wandering round town between these times there was little evidence that Sleaford contained three secondary schools in spitting distance of the Market Place, the square at the centre of the town. As a consequence of the lack of presence the students had on the town during school time, the after school routine, when approximately 2500 young people, from KSHS and nearby secondary schools, exit the school grounds and spill into the town centre, took on an extraordinary quality. The artist was particularly captured by the sheer volume of students who amass and disperse and the affect this has on the town.

Our Name is Legion will take place on an undisclosed date in April. At the end of the school day all secondary and sixth-form students from Sleaford schools will be invited to don a high-visibility vest from the moment they leave school to the moment they arrive home. Thus transforming the pupils into a mass of singular colour, that flows along the main thoroughfares, to congregate in significant locations, such as Market Place, Sleaford train station, key bus-stops and then over a period of 45 minutes, gradually disband. The artwork will be video-recorded from key locations around the town and also by pupils from within the throng.

In the direct context of Sleaford Our Name is Legion signals the complex relationship the students have with the town. The appropriation of this routine, daily fluctuation as art event seeks to make vivid an everyday occurrence in order to explore resident's awareness of their town's social structure; each student is local, an inhabitant of Sleaford or the surrounding area, yet the mass assembly differentiates between town and school populations, temporarily defining the youth as an anonymous, culturally defined group, that are simultaneously 'inside' the community and separate from it. This interplay between mass and individual, lack of or excess public prominence, in a specific geographical and cultural environment, reflects to some extent the status of young people within wider society, as they start to forge an identify for themselves that is both individual and conforms to societal expectations.

However, this is not an artwork about the representation of young people. Those who cannot or choose not to take part, such as the town's people, the artist, Beacon (the commissioner) and the student dissenters are not absent from this moment. It is likely that their non-participation will be write large on the event - signalled through the dilute effect their own clothing will have on the spectacle. The title of the work, Our Name is Legion has military connotations and is taken from a biblical parable in which Jesus meets a man possessed by many demons, and when asked their name, they respond: 'Our name is legion, for we are many'. It has been referenced in many political and pop culture contexts, used to suggest the destabilising power of the assembling mass and the ambiguous power-play between multitude and individual. Used here, it points towards the artwork offering possibilities for acting collectively or alone and the visibility or invisibility these positions afford in different social arenas; it also acknowledges society's uneasy and agoraphobic relationship to the gathering 'crowd' in open spaces.

The documentation will be screened at a public event at The Hub, the National Centre for Craft and Design, in Sleaford on Friday 19 June 2009, 6-8pm. Spaces are limited, so to ensure a place please email Beacon: info@beaconartproject.com

Kelly Large is an artist based in London. She exploits distribution mechanisms such as FM radio, publishing formats and curatorial mediation to critically scrutinize the relationship between the production, transmission and reception of art.

Artist Kelly Large is now planning towards the public outcome of her residency with the school, which is to take place in Sleaford, Lincolnshire towards the end of April 2009. Dates and details of the event will be posted on the website. A public screening of the film of the event together with a talk by the artist, will follow. Dates and details to be confirmed by the end of February 2009.

Wayne Lloyd performed on Thursday 16 October at 7.30pm at the launch event of an exciting weekend programme of performing art.
To see images from the performance....click here

To find out more about Brown Mountain visit:

Kelly Large has been selected to work with the school in this year's residency, which will begin this autumn and will be documented on the website.

Richard Deacon will travel to Belgrade at the beginning of September to continue work on this collaboration. Have a look at some of the work taking place...click here.

A successful trip was made to Belgrade at the end of June by Richard Deacon to begin the collaboration with Mrdjan Bajic

Richard Deacon and Mrdjan Bajic working on the initial designs in Belgrade, July 2008

Colin Greensmith RIP
We were all saddened to learn of Colin's sudden death. He has been an essential part of Beacon's development, as a friend, helper and artist, exhibiting in the 2005 event. He will be greatly missed and remembered with great fondness.

Kalemegdan Bridge Collaboration

RICHARD DEACON MRDJAN BAJIC

Exciting new public art project for the City of Belgrade

Beacon, in association with Handel Street Projects, is pleased to announce The Kalmegdan Bridge Collaboration between British sculptor, Richard Deacon and Serbian sculptor, Mrdjan Bajic.