Grit was an artist led programme of activity that culminated in Art on The Streets.
A spectacular day that saw Nuneaton town centre come alive with Transit Art, street art, verbatim and physical theatre performances and Morris dancing to Hip Hip. Repurposed road signs, benches, markets stalls, art installations and large scale community artwork all lined the streets in this town centre take over.
I designed the branding and name for the project and managed Grit Art Central.
Grit encompassed not only the determination to be a self employed artist in Nuneaton, but captured the essence of the town as a rough, downtrodden, post industrial market town with a heritage in brick making and mining, its most famous landmark is the quarry’s slag heap, Mount Jud.
Throughout the programme, I led my own projects Convoy and Portrait of a Town, along with producing the sign project, commissioning artists and art groups to make site specific work, installations and exhibitions.
In collaboration I delivered street art workshops, SketchClub, the installation of front window displays, selected artists, managed the phone box and the daily running of the building.
I was one of three artists who worked collectively to create the artworks the event day.
GRIT was part of Creative Explorers, an 18-month cultural programme funded by Arts Council England Place Partnerships fund.
