Experience and Services
ARTS UK provides a range of research, development and implementation services and has extensive arts experience. A network of associate consultants creates a skills and expertise base to enable flexible teams to be created to fulfill client requirements.
ARTS UK has an operational area that is UK wide and is currently working on projects in Bolton, Cheshire, Cumbria, Dumfries and Galloway, Northumberland, Scottish Borders, South Lanarkshire, Tees Valley, and Tyne & Wear.
ARTS
UK offers the following services:
- Project Development & Management
- Consultation, advocacy and development strategies
- Strategic planning and implementation
- Arts Research and Information
- Contractual advice and implementation
- Research & Feasibility Studies, Reports and Business Plans
- Preparation, implementation and control of budgets
- Fundraising, including National Lottery
- Preparation of commission briefs and contracts
- Artists’ database and national arts contacts
- Organisation of artists short-listing and interview
- Information and education strategies
- Setting up education & community partnerships
- Residencies and workshop organisation
- Training and good practice dissemination
- Web design
ARTS UK works closely with organisations and individuals to prepare strategic structures for development, implementation and project delivery. It offers experience of the following:
Organisational and delivery structures for the public, private, and voluntary independent sectors
Ability to work at local, regional, national and international levels, and to organise work practices and structures which are appropriate for each situation
Ability to mediate between client, artist and audience, to facilitate new partnerships that support significant and meaningful arts projects which embrace art and society in its broadest and most inclusive context.
Working with a wide range of organisations, cultures, ages and abilities
Working at senior levels, including Chief Executives, Chief Officers, Elected Members, Company Directors
Understanding of funding systems and sources of finances for arts projects, including % for Art, National Lottery, Arts Council England, Regional Development Agency, Capital budgets, Charitable Trusts
Successful fundraising for projects, including major lottery and SRB finances
Ability to develop and deliver a range of different sized projects with budgets from £5,000 to £250,000.
Working with regional, national and international agencies
Strategic arts reports and feasibility studies
Public presentations to local authority, community, business and other groups
Working with District, County, and Metropolitan local authorities
Working closely and engaging in research, development and co-ordination of arts projects with different local authority departments and personnel, including;
- Arts and Leisure
- Economic Development
- Planning
- Education
- Engineers
- Highways/Transport
- Architects
- Landscape Architects
- Social Services
- Property Services and Estates
Experience of large scale innovative public art projects
which require extensive public consultation, development
of design proposals, prototypes, engineering and constructional
development and feasibility.
A range of different project contexts, including Art and Architecture, Schools and Education, Urban Regeneration and Improvement Schemes, cycle-routes and other linear paths, Art, Landscape and Environment, Art and community identity and development, Art in urban areas.
Involvement with and support for a wide range of art-form areas in public art commissions, including sculpture, painting, glass, mosaic, architectural metalwork, landscaping, murals, letter-cutting, photography, light and lens based, new and digital technologies, temporary and ephemeral works.
Successful implementation of a wide range of public art and landscape projects.
Preparation of timetables, project structures and working partnerships.