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Clockwise:
UKABA Flyers
Applications
Application to make
a life size bronze sculpture of a tree (Graham Fagen)
Application for 'Megamonkey'
– a proposal to make tree-dens in Galashields, Scotland to
the scale of monkeys, to be used by humans (name withheld)
Application to build
a bridge from Plymouth to Cape Cod (constructed with English Oak,
to be completed by 3000 (Alan Currall)
Application to build
a bridge from Plymouth to Cape Cod (constructed with English Oak,
to be completed by 3000 (Alan Currall)
Application to photograph
every tree in Scotland – so the exhibition itself will be
like a forest
Application to photograph
every tree in Scotland – so the exhibition itself will be
like a forest
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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.
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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
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