18 May 2012
PLOWMAN'S LUNCH...There are still tickets available at 20% discounted price of £56 until 31 May 2012 book via Eventbrite for Beacon's first PLOWMAN'S LUNCH Click here to book up now!
8 May 2012
Visibility and Invisibility: Audience, Artist and Curator
Friday 22 June 2012
10am-4pm
Reading Room & Chapel, High Street, Wellingore, Lincoln LN5 0HW
Purchase Tickets via Eventbrite: £70.00 Early Bird: £56.00 (Book before 31 May 2012)
Enjoy a day at Beacon's HQ, a former Methodist chapel in the heart of Lincolnshire. Share food, conversation and debate with guest speakers Penelope Curtis, Director of Tate Britain and Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of Mostyn, Wales.
The day will will be of interest to artists, academics, curators, arts professionals and other curious people in the East Midlands and beyond.
18 April 2012
Beacon invites submissions from artists based in the East Midlands who are not currently in higher education. The next deadline for this ongoing call: Thursday 31 May 2012.
The offer: As a guest you will prepare and present either a performance or a presentation about your art practice as discussed and agreed with Beacon’s directors. Mentoring input will be available from Beacon's curatorial director, John Plowman. The presentation/performance will be part of a Bi-Monthly event, to which the public is invited to attend and participate free of charge. Your presentation/performance will be followed by a question and answer session with audience members. You will be offered a fee of £100 and reimbursement of your travel expenses.
To apply please email the following information to info@beaconartproject.com
-Full name
-Email address
-Telephone number
-A single side A4 CV
-A 250 word expression of interest and statement of your current practice.
-An online link to 5 images of your recent work
Please do not send jpegs in your email. No postal applications will be considered.
Deadline: 31 May 2012
8 May 2012
S. Mark Gubb The Bewildered Herd: Text Works and Other Things 2004-2010
An evening of artists’ presentations from S. Mark Gubb and Jonathan Roberts and a Beacon Conversation: Collaborative working with Kate Genever.
18 April 2012
We are thrilled to have started working with newly appointed project assistants, Laura Mahony, Hannah Robinson and Deborah Carlin. All three are graduates from The University of Lincoln and are joining Beacon under the graduate placement scheme.
22 March 2012
Beacon is delighted to have been awarded Arts Council England funding towards our exciting 2012 Annual Programme, an integrated programme of visual art activity that will take place in Lincolnshire and consist of three strands:
The Beacon Bi-Monthly A series of convivial evening artists’ presentations and performances
where experimental ideas can be tested on a diverse audience of members of the public. The eight events that ran as a pilot from 2010-2011 were so popular that Beacon Bi-Monthly events will be held on the following dates.
Friday 4 May, 7-10pm
Friday 6 July, 7-10pm
Friday 7 september, 7-10pm
Friday 2 November, 7-10pm
See Beacon's news page for the Bi-Monthly call for submissions from artists based in the East Midlands.
Plowman’s Lunch A quarterly critical forum with international and national guest speakers.
Details and tickets available soon.
22 June 10am-4pm
7 December, 10am-4pm
Compass 5 – 28 October 2012, Lincolnshire
An exhibition of new artist commissions exhibited at heritage sites in Lincolnshire, including National Trust Woolsthorpe Manor, the birthplace of Isaac Newton. Artists include Jordan Baseman; Jem Finer and Bethan Huws.
4 March 2012
Each time you attend a Beacon event, you will receive a stamp on your loyalty card. When you collect five stamps you will receive a limited edition artwork commissioned by Beacon. Your loyalty card will be available for you at the next Bi-Monthly event.
4 March 2012
Krystina Naylor, Untitled (skin I)2011
An evening of artists’ presentations and interventions with Krystina Naylor, Marc Renshaw and A Beacon conversation, Audience, with John Plowman and Nicola Streeten, Beacon directors.
2 December 2011
![Mik Godley <i>Horst Mahler's Eyes (version 2 [103])</i> 2011](http://beaconartproject.org/media/uploads/images/mik-godley-horst-mahlers-eyes-v-113368_jpg_600x600_q85.jpg)
Mik Godley Horst Mahler's Eyes (version 2 [103]) 2011
An evening of artists' presentations and interventions with Mik Godley, Thomas Bartlett and The Monks Gallery: Tom Cretney and Nick Simpson.
8 October 2011
Ellie Harrison Early Warning Sign, 2011
Beacon is the Pre-Tour Host of one of artist Ellie Harrison's Early Warning Signs at the headquarters in Lincolnshire, LN5 0HW.
