We’re supporting up to 10 artists to develop creative projects focused on natural landscapes, exploring themes of heritage, environment, and public space.
Seedbed 2025 coincides with and celebrates the 25th anniversary of Greenham Common’s return to public ownership. At least three projects will be commissioned further as part of this celebration.
Seedbed 2025, 101’s artist support programme, will have a specific focus on supporting ideas and approaches that can be developed for natural landscapes – in particular the Special Site of Scientific Interest (SSSI) of Greenham Common that surrounds 101.
The 2025 Seedbed programme will support initial R&D on up to 10 projects to a value of £2500 each. The intention is that at least three of these projects will be further supported with a small commissioning award to create a final public presentation in Summer 2025 as part of a programme of celebrating the 25th anniversary of Greenham Common’s return to public ownership after almost 60 years of military occupation.
After playing a significant and controversial role in Cold War history in the 1980’s as a base for American nuclear weapons and as the site of a long-running women’s peace camp, the thousand acres of Greenham and Crookham Commons are now a peaceful place of natural beauty and popular local leisure amenity that has been actively managed by local Wildlife Trust BBOWT to conserve its special landscape, flora and fauna.
Following on from our work to develop non-arts partnerships through last year’s Seedbed programme we want to further explore how outdoor arts and artists work with themes such as heritage, environment, and inclusion. We are looking for artists that are keen to work with partners in these and other areas using the Greenham Common context as an initial focus, laboratory and test bed for how arts in public space can connect diverse audiences with place and with nature. Seedbed will support the development or adaption of project ideas to respond to the unique ecological, social and political context of Greenham Common.
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