Offsite 9 - commissioned artist announcement

Image: Kathleen Fabre, 'Neon Prism'.

We’re delighted to be able to share a few of the commissioned artists for our upcoming Offsite 9 project.

CBC has received a project grant from Arts Council England to develop a local programme that supports artists to create work that will add value and compliment British Art Show 9 show in Wolverhampton during early 2022. 

Over 25 artists, creatives and organisations will be producing work from January 2022 onwards that will make up a programme of exciting and diverse projects, events and interventions that will pop-up across the city.

Below is just a few of the projects that we are supporting and we’ll be announcing more soon.

The Punjabi Women Writing Group will be producing a series of poems that look at the key theme’s of British Art Show 9; ‘Hum Saath Saath Hein (We are Together)’ will be performed at Central Library in late January.

Kathleen Fabre’s ‘Alignment’ installation will see four vibrant site specific architectural scale works created using 'wool' in a variety of UV colours, bringing contemporary art to the city.  

Katie Holtom will produce a ‘live’ storybook. ‘Pop-up Lives’ will help viewers look through the eyes and words of children with the help of projection mapping, text and illustrations produced with young people in the city.

'A familial life, THEY' is a dream-like film being made by video installation artist Sahjan Kooner, that will help viewers travels through histories to explore personal stories about the great migration between India and England.

Artist Charlotte Dunn will bring back the Victorian ‘Plant Fete’ concept to Wolverhampton. A community project that creates the idea of the floral fete will take place within West Park to enable people to come together and plant swap. 

Fine artist and long distance walker Daniella Turbin will be creating a public walk with a difference, all framed around 9 key sites in the city centre.

Susan Brisco and Kanj Nicholas will join together for ‘Kindness is free; let’s pass it on’ an art-science exploration into kindness within our community.

RE SET will be an immersive outdoor exhibition taking place at Boundary Way where they will present a body of work by artists that takes inspiration from landscape and biodiversity.

IMAGINE WOLVES by Leanne O'Connor and Ewan Johnston will offer a space to contribute your imagined futures of what the city could be. Residents of the city will be invited to join a celebratory procession inspired by working class culture(s) towards the end of the project.

Wolverhampton’s motto: ‘Out of darkness cometh light’ is the inspiration for a Visual Vernacular (VV) performance produced by Omar Haq that offers a theatrical form of physical expression and storytelling using the body and movement.

Painter Riccardo de Bruce analyses the Stephen Lawrence case, evidence and history with his documentary styled poems and conceptual drawings for project ‘Stephen, Architect of Hope.’                                                                         

We’ll be announcing more successful commissions over the coming months and sharing details of each commission in more depth as they get underway.

Offsite 9 is funded by Arts Council England and supported by Paycare