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My video work Mars was a Place has been shortlisted for the Woolgather 2012. All shortlisted artists will feature in an exhibition in Leeds city centre, the opening will be on the 11th of May (venue tbc).
For more details about this visit:
Woolgather Art Prize 2012
Leeds Visual Arts Forum 2012
Logo Rebrand Design Brief
DEADLINE 16th APRIL
Background
Leeds Visual Arts Forum is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to raise the profile of the visual arts in Leeds by:
• Providing a focus for information exchange for artists and arts professionals in the city and surrounding area via Listserve.
• Providing a portal to the visual arts in Leeds via its website. Developing events and projects in response to the needs of its membership.
• Advocating the visual arts at a policy making level.
LVAF is committed to raising the profile of the visual arts in Leeds through information exchange, advocacy, the website and networking events. The steering group meets on a monthly basis and is made up of volunteers with a wide range of professional experience across the visual arts.
One of LVAF’s most successful initiatives is Listserve, a free messaging service for nearly 2000 artists and arts professionals in Leeds. Subscribers can post and receive notice of events, commissions, collaborations, calls for submission, job postings, and news about the art scene in Leeds.
Current LVAF steering group members are: Louise Atkinson, Sarah Brown, Abby Dix-Mason, Hondartza Fraga, Pippa Hale, Moira Innes, Zöe Sawyer.
Current website: http://www.lvaf.org.uk/
Requirement
LVAF wants to refresh the organisation’s image by creating a new logo and style guidelines. Our current logo has been in use for over 10 years and needs hauling into the 21st century. We would like to appoint a Leeds-based designer to work on the re-branding that will work across a range of printed and digital media.
The primary objectives are:
• To give LVAF’s branding a more contemporary look
• To create a logo that will encompass LVAF core identity as a democratic and open portal to all visual arts in the city
Overall design requirements
• To redesign the LVAF brand as stand alone logo AND with strap line in words ‘Leeds Visual Arts Forum’
• The new logo should be simple and clear, and suitable to be used on-line (eg on the new website and as a avatar for social media) and across a range of printed material.
• The logo should work in colour and mono
• To create a logo and style guidelines (using an open source font that works across all media)
• Proposals to be supplied for as a low resolution PDF (maximum size 1MB)
Standards
Compliance with the DDA and its codes of practice is regarded as minimum standard. For example, care must be taken when using light text over light background or when using text over images, appropriate font/point size must be considered etc. For more information, please see http://www.rnib.org.uk/professionals/accessibleinformation/text/Pages/text.aspx
LVAF will have the right to use the new logo freely on all publicity.
Budget
A nominal fee of £200 will be awarded to the successful applicant. In addition, the successful proposal will be used in the design of the new LVAF website and on a new strategic document that will be distributed amongst key cultural organisations, local authority officers and elected members, businesses, funders and key stakeholders.
Response
We invite designers to submit a proposal to include the following information:
• Proposal/drafts for redesign of Leeds Visual Arts Forum logo (maximum file size 1MB)
• Examples of work from previous projects (maximum file size 1MB)
• Designers may submit more than one design if they wish
We do not intend to interview prospective designers but to make a decision based on these submissions. An assessment of the submission would be made on the basis of the quality of the submissions and how these response to LVAF aims.
Timetable
• Deadline for submissions by 16 April 2012 at 12pm
• Please send submissions to Hondartza Fraga at mail@hondartzafraga.com
• Successful applicant will be notified by 24 April 2012
Contact
If you have any queries, please contact Hondartza Fraga at mail@hondartzafraga.com
PKN Wakefield #5 is coming to The Hepworth Wakefield in March.
We’ll have presentations showcasing the passions, ideas, inspirations and eccentricities of artists and creatives from across Yorkshire.
There will also be time to mingle and meet the presenters and other audience members, with an opportunity for you to take the plunge and put yourself forward for a future event!
March 6, 2012 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Wakefield #5 at The Hepworth Wakefield Admission £3
Gallery Walk, WF1 5AW
01924 247360
http://hepworthwakefield.org
Come along to the launch of Linear Progressions this Friday 17th Feb 6 – 9pm at Shine featuring the work of some of the best emerging and established artists in the region.
Entrance is free but please register with eventbrite to confirm attendance: http://linearprogressionartexhibition.eventbrite.co.uk/ and share with your contacts.
Artists include Kasia Baczkowski, Nick Claiden, Kimbal Bumstead, Matthew Thompson, Michelle Vesey, Fiona Taylor, Ron Wilson, Filippa Dobson, Una, Claire Cooper, Fiona Taylor, Jo Wilkson, Paul Miller, Mark Milnes, Jo Brown, Victoria Vinader, Lucy Crouch, Simon Lewis, Katie Iveson, Hondartza Fraga, Catherine Scriven, Lesley Birch, Kelly Boyle, Caroline Hall, Geoff Hewitt, Richard Baker, James Ferraciour, Paul Czainski, Chris Czainski and Mark Ombler-Spain.
This contemporary selling show aims to celebrate, explore, and stretch the boundaries of the drawn art form. Using a wide variety of processes, techniques, and stimuli, these artists have explored the idea and practice of drawing. The show includes a wide range of media, from pencil and pastel, through to less conventional drawing materials such as printmaking, glass, collage, and embroidery.
Late night viewing: Friday 17th February 6 – 9pm
Exhibition continues: 20th February – 9th March 2012
Opening hours: Mon – Fri 8am-8pm
Free entry
For more info contact Shine on 0113 388 0000
Shine, Harehills Road, Leeds LS8 5HS
http://www.shinebusinesscentre.co.uk/
An event showcasing the creative community in Leeds, more details at:
http://eaststreetarts.org.uk/whats-on/10-12-11-come-find-us/
I will be opening my studio at Patricks (East Street Arts) from 12-5 pm,
Hope you can come along!
I have some work at display as part of the window programme of the festival.
Details here Wirksworth Festival Website
Download: ‘Hydro Power’ artists’ statements
Mars was a place, 2011
Launch event Friday 5th August, from 6pm – Open 6th until 20th August
Mars was a place is a new video work by Hondartza Fraga, in collaboration with Markus Lantto. A remote and unidentified landscape slowly sweeps in front of the camera while we hear the word exchange between the two artists. Their conversation reflects on ideas of journey, maps, dislocation and the difficulty in the attempt to carry out a long distance dialogue.
In October, occursus will publish a book with sections on:
the spandrel | re-visiting | dis/con/sensus | animality | copying | Foam
If you would like to contribute to any of these volumes, please contact the relevant editor with your text or a brief (50-100 words) proposal. We’re looking for images and texts of all kinds (limited only by word length – 1000 words max, please).
You can find more details, deadline 31st of August.
http://occursus.wordpress.com
