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Clockwise: ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7000 flyers in art magazines and gallery mail-outs asking artists to put forward ideas for work that needed funding from regional arts boards. The UK Arts Board Agency took these ideas - often not more than one or two lines in length and turned them into fully costed applications to the appropriate funding bodies. The only restriction was that the all the proposals should relate to the theme of 'trees'. Freed from having to balance the chore of making an application (and the ability) against the possibility of success, artists put forward plans that otherwise would have been shelved. Proposals included 'to build a bridge from Plymouth to Cape Cod, using only English Oak Trees, following the route of the Mayflower' (a project to be completed by the year 3000) and 'to make a topiary sculpture of Terry Wogan's head to be installed in the boughs of a Scottish Caledonian Pine. A sister operation was briefly launched in New York but collapsed due to the excessive workload. ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... The UKABA archive was exhibited as part of 'Snowballing' curated by Elizabeth Price and exhibited at Arthur R Rose Gallery, London & Henry Moore Institute (The Special Collections Room), Leeds << GO BACK |
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