Funding Award for Artspace 'I SPY' Exhibition 2004 from Arts Council England, East Midlands

Artspace, Loughborough¹s group for local practising artists, celebrated a substantial award of £17,000 from Arts Council England, East Midlands.

Vice Chairperson, Mary Byrne said in the local press -

'We are absolutely delighted with this award. It really shows that the Arts Council believes in us and what we can do. The money is not just to help with the publicity and organisation of exhibitions and workshops, but a substantial part of it is meant for the individual artistic development of members. It will help us pay for mentoring advice from more experienced artists and art professionals and for courses.

Artspace¹s main exhibition every year has been the large summer show at Loughborough University School of Art and Design¹s Generator Gallery in the Introductory Studies Building on Packe Street, Loughborough. This has been a great success story. In 2003, 1,300 people visited the show or attended workshops.

Andrew Wilton, the former Keeper of the British Collection at the Tate Gallery and the renowned writer on the painter Turner, opened it. Andrew was one of Artspace¹s mentors in 2003. Workshops will be held in the gallery during the exhibition and include plaster sculpture, portraiture, poetry, wireworks, and creating an installation, as well as talks by the artists themselves'.

There was an auction of selected work on Saturday 10th July between 3.00pm and 5.00pm.