Producers
We are currently working to diversify our recommended Producers list.
We are refining the process to make it accessible and clear.
If you would like to find out more about how to become a BCC recommended Producer watch this space or contact us at artandthepublicrealm@bristol.gov.uk
Are you looking for a Producer to work with you on your project? Bristol City Council have a list of Producers who regularly work in Bristol, you can find out more through our Producer Directory –
So what does a Public Art Producer Do? The magic of public realm projects is that no one invitation, place, partner, artist or collaboration is ever the same. Public Art Producers hold the specialist creative and communicative skills to identify site specific opportunities, to respond imaginatively, and to work with a diverse range of stakeholders to assess and identify what a project needs to make it meaningful and of value – a success for people and place.
Bristol City Council encourage and support developers to work with external Public Art Producers to satisfy their planning conditions and will only accept Public Art Plans written by external Producers.
Skills and responsibilities of Public Art Producers include, but are not exclusive to, the following:
- Artist research & recruitment (writing of briefs, management of the artist selection process);
- High level budget management & project development;
- Development & negotiation of artists contracts;
- Producing & delivery services, including client & artist liaison;
- Arts – led community engagement & creative consultation;
- Project monitoring & evaluation;
- Stakeholder management across a wide range of clients including developers, architects, local authorities, educational establishments, communities, artists and cultural organisations;
- Press & marketing expertise;
Website
Art Acumencontact
Catherine Thomas
07590844828
About
Art Acumen was established in 2009 and operates with a core team augmented by Associate art consultants, curators and producers, appointed on a project-by-project basis to advise and help deliver our bespoke art programmes. The team also expands to an established network of specialist art partners, these include specialist fabrication companies, fine art handlers, technicians and lighting consultants.
Catherine Thomas (Managing Director of Art Acumen), has twenty years’ experience as an art consultant – delivering visionary art programmes and place-making through public art programmes. Her creativity, integrity and extensive knowledge of the art world are combined with strong communication, programme management and design skills. This ensures a bespoke and holistic approach for each project.
Website
Brickscontact
Kerrie Burke-Avery, Producer, kerrie@bricksbristol.org
Projects
About
Bricks is a charity with the mission to support local, creative and social enterprise communities thrive in Bristol. We believe in the civic role of artists and that through collaboration we can have a strong collective voice for inclusive growth in the city. Bricks supports land developers to connect with local and creative communities, through the delivery of bespoke and locally-lead public art programmes. With a strong grounding in planning and community engagement alongside a high quality artist network, our approach is to facilitate a creative and collaborative process between land developers, architects, consultants, local authorities, communities and artists.
In addition to Bricks’ work on the Moxy Bristol project, we are collaborating with communities in Lockleaze, Easton and Temple Meads on other public art programming. We also run St Anne’s House, a creative & community hub in St Anne’s, Bristol, serving our local neighbourhood as well as the regional creative community of the West of England.
Lawrence Hoo, Jewels of St Pauls. Photo @ Ruby Turner Website
Field Art Projectscontact
Theresa Bergne
theresabergne@fieldartprojects.com
07912208791
Projects
- Nanowires - School of Engineering Building, University of the West of England
- Edith and Hans
- Southmead Hospital Public Art Programme
About
Field Art Projects is an art consultancy based in Bristol run by Theresa Bergne. The organisation develops and delivers strategies for cultural place-making through artist led commissions to enhance design, build community, support health and well-being and regeneration. They commission visual artists, designers and performers to create permanent and temporary artworks and participatory events in the public realm.
Current projects include the development and delivery of a public art programme for Bristol’s premiere concert hall – the Bristol Beacon refurbishment project. Most recently FAP commissioned the artist Alice Channer to collaborate with the bio-engineering team to create her first permanently sited work for the University of West of England’s new Engineering Building.
In the past FAP have contributed to the development of capital projects within Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone including the University of Bristol’s new Temple Quarter Campus and the Bristol Arena, a 12,000 seater stadium.
Previous work includes a programme for the University of Bristol’s Halls of Residence with artists Melanie Jackson, Andy Holden and Sarah Staton; Future Perfect, an ambitious programme of public art commissions for Hengrove, a residential area of South Bristol co-curated with Jes Fernie; a multi-disciplinary public art project for Sovereign Housing in Barton Hill with the artist Serena Korda and the award winning public art programme for The Barts Breast Care Centre in London.
Theresa Bergne is part of the steering group for PAN UK a public art network for curators and producers across the UK. She also sits on Bristol’s DIY Culture Network that shapes and influences strategic thinking about arts and culture in the city.
Photo: @ Theirry Bal Website
Ginkgo Projectscontact
Tom Littlewood
Ginkgo Projects Ltd.
St Judes Studio
15 High Street
BS26 2AF
Projects
About
Ginkgo Projects Ltd. is an experienced, independent art producer developing often strategy led cultural projects within urban development that connect people to place through art. We have a strong and proven track record, working across the city for both commercial and public sector clients.
We offer a range of services from strategy development though to project delivery for both large and small scale projects.
We work as team members, to connect people with place through taking a holistic approach to strategy development, cultural partnership building, art curation and public realm design to produce projects that are distinctive and memorable.
Our philosophy is driven by a desire to create meaningful opportunities for artists and creative practitioners to work closely with clients, design teams and communities to build and reveal an authentic sense of narrative, place and distinctiveness within the city.
Anouk Mercier, Glassfields, Bristol. Photo @ Max McClure Website
PONYcontact
Carissa Andrew-Smith, info@thisispony.com
Projects
- Shape of Play - The Merchants and Venturers’ Academy
- A Shift in Perspective - Minerva Primary Academy
About
PONY commission, curate and produce site responsive public art, place activations, cultural strategy, and wider creative collaborations to inspire engagement with cultural stories.
They devise strategy to humanise environments, allowing artists to enrich public life and create a cultural legacy for the future. Working at different scales from integrated art and design for complex urban developments to site specific performance, by harnessing site responsive, critically engaged thinking, they strategically develop inspiring work that creates communities, activates place and inspires change to strengthen the cultural ecology.
Whether the outcomes are temporary or permanent, all projects are derived from the experience of an engagement with place and the ideas that formed them.
Overstory, Ivan Morison and Heather Peake, 2022, Bristol. Photo @ Jamie Woodley contact
Suzanne Heath
07843 417474
About
Suzanne Heath is a freelance curator, project manager and public art consultant based in Somerset. She specialises in developing and delivering site specific art projects in the public realm.
Since 2005 Suzanne has commissioned a wide range of artists for a variety of rural and urban contexts across England, including new developments and within a heritage setting. Suzanne prioritises opportunities for community participation and engagement, and partnership working throughout her projects.
Suzanne has commissioned several Bristol-based artists and writers including Holly Corfield Carr, Molly Hawkins, Jo Lathwood, Nick Hand of The Letterpress Collective and Phil Root. Projects in Bristol include Edith and Hans by Sarah Staton at the University of Bristol (managed on behalf of Field Art Projects) and the Spaceplates Greenhouse at South Bristol Skills Academy (managed on behalf of Ginkgo Projects).
Current projects include commissions in Worcestershire, Taunton and South Gloucestershire. Past projects include a creative programme for the Bristol and Bath Railway Path funded by Arts Council England and developed in partnership with Sustrans; a series of ceramic artworks gifted to new residents of a housing development in Lyde Green; artist-designed street furniture for sites in Devon and South Gloucestershire; a wall-based permanent artwork for a new office in Cheltenham; an exterior mural for a primary school in South Gloucestershire; a series of outdoor film screenings and creative programme for a housing estate developed in partnership with FilmBath and a pavilion for creative events at a large-scale housing development in Yate.
Suzanne’s private and public sector clients have included English Heritage, University of the West of England, Curo housing association, Barratt Homes, Cotswold Homes, Newland Homes, Arts Taunton and Somerset West and Taunton Council. She has also taught at Bath Spa University, and is a board member for IXIA the national public art think tank for England (www.ixia-info.org).
Jo Lathwood, Home from Home, Yate Photo @ Paul Blakemore Website
CAS *Consultancy (contemporaryartsociety.org)contact
About
CAS *Consultancy has provided strategic art and cultural services for more than 30 years. Their knowledge of the field is unparalleled, with work ranging from cultural placemaking strategies to bespoke art opportunities. Curating and managing projects in a range of contexts and environments, CAS *Consultancy work with outstanding artists to produce collections, events, art strategies and public art commissions of the highest calibre. CAS *Consultancy projects contribute to the cultural life of the UK.
What differentiates them from other art advisors is that they are a charity. Their work enables Contemporary Art Society to support living artists and build critical knowledge around contemporary art. Consultancy fees support the organisation’s charitable mission: to develop public collections across the UK for the benefit of audiences everywhere.
CAS *Consultancy have been working with the University of Bristol since 2018. Currently, they are delivering an ambitious public art programme, with three community-facing commissions, for the University’s new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus.
Bedwyr Williams, 'Do the little things' St David's Cathedral, Photo: Karl Jesper