Pittville Park Cheltenham – call for artists to design children’s sensory gardens
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Brief from Friends of Pittville: Pittville Park in Cheltenham has what is probably the most popular play area in Gloucestershire for children up to 12 years old, as well as aviaries containing a variety of birds and rabbits that are very popular with younger children and their families. Between the play area and the aviaries are six large brick planters, with bench seating between them. Volunteers from Friends of Pittville have recently cleared them of rather uninteresting overgrown shrubs and are now working on a scheme to turn the beds into a sensory garden for children. The idea is to introduce appropriate planting and signage but at the same time make them fun and interesting for children. Each bed will be planted to represent one of the senses. Friends of Pittville would like to include artwork/signage, which could either take the form of five smaller individual artworks/sculptures related to the sense within each bed or a larger single item in one of the beds expressing all of the senses.
Phase 1 - £700 budget selected artist’s initial fee
Phase 2 - £5000+ final artwork and installation (expected, after fundraising by Friends of Pittville)
Send an expression of interest on 1 A4 sheet setting out your idea and a direction you would see it take. A simple scheme and an initial idea which could be the final idea or artists fee and design to support a phase 2 which would need additional funds/ grant for a larger design idea to be completed. Please Include some samples of current work.
Deadline for initial ideas: 30 September
Email: Volunteer@friendsofpittville.org.uk
For a visual showing the setting, please follow this video link : https://friendsofpittville.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Sensory-beds-2-compressed.mp4
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