JERWOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
Since its inception the Jerwood Charitable Foundation has been working across the visual and performing arts, film, literature, conservation and other areas of human endeavour, to find ways of supporting and nurturing talented artists in the early stages of their careers, helping them develop their skills, offering opportunities to create new work and find new inspirations. They work with organisations that show a commitment to excellence and quality, to develop exciting programmes, and to make grants to innovative initiatives..
www.jerwood.org
ARTANGEL
Over the past decade, Artangel has built an international reputation as a pioneering producer of highly ambitious projects by contemporary artists across a wide range of different disciplines. Artangel’s mission is to work with some of today’s exceptional artists to realise the full potential of their ideas in the best possible circumstances.
Future Artangel commissions will transform sites and situations as diverse as the English seaside town of Margate and the Icelandic coastal community of Stykkishólmur, the motor city of Detroit and the new Wembley Stadium in London.
www.artangel.org.uk
CHANNEL 4
Channel 4’s association with Artangel goes back to the co-production of two films for television, Sophie Fiennes’ Because I Sing and Mike Figgis’ film of Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave, broadcast in 2002. Exodus, a further co-production will be filmed by Penny Woolcock in Margate in the autumn of 2006.
www.channel4.com
ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND
Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts in England. Between 2005 and 2008, they are investing £1.7 billion of public funds from government and the National Lottery to promote the arts at the heart of national life, reflecting England's rich and diverse cultural identity, transforming lives and communities and creating opportunities for people throughout the country.
www.artscouncil.org.uk
