2016/17ANNUALREPORT

Artsadmin enables artists to create

without boundaries, connecting bold

interdisciplinary work with local, national

and international audiences.

Everything we do is underpinned by our

core values:Sustainable.

Collaborative. Bold.

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PHOTOGRAPHS: COVER: ROSEMARY LEE, CALLING TREE. RIGHT: VOLUNTEERS AT

STATION HOUSE OPERA, DOMINOES, LONDON. PHOTOS BY OLIVER RUDKIN.

ARTISTS SHIFTING PERCEPTIONS It has been another year of awe-inspiring and provocative work generated by Artsadmin, reaching audiences near and far.

This year, many of works produced by Artsadmin have invited audiences to look at the world around them differently − whether faced with the harsh realities of capitalism by running a clothes factory during METIS’ performance-game, World Factory, or donnning a pair of stranger’s shoes and walking a mile listening to their story in Clare Patey’s Empathy Museum.

Artsadmin’s achievements would not have been possible without our partner venues and festivals from across the world, and in particular our European partners, who we value even more in light of recent uncertainties about Europe’s cohesion.

We are attracting more and more visitors to our home at Toynbee Studios, both to see our vibrant public programme of radical performances and to participate in our artist development activities, which include mentoring, labs and workshops.

I’d like to say a big thank you to all of our funders, donors and supporters for ensuring that Artsadmin continues its vital and challenging work with and for the arts community, artists and above all, audiences.

Charles GarradChair, Board of Trustees

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ACROSSARTSADMIN

24 new commissions totalling £945,000 awarded to disabled artists through

the Unlimited commissions programme delivered in partnership with Shape Arts

7,100kilowatts of electricity generated from the solar panels on our roof at Toynbee Studios

133,224people reached online via Artsadmin’s

website and social media channels

WORKING WITH YOUNG PEOPLEArtsadmin’s three-year summer project Make Space, led by Nic Green, culminated in a symposium, bringing together past participants, artists and academics to discuss models of site-specific learning.

The Artsadmin Youth Board held two events in the Arts Bar & Café – one to showcase their own practices, and another giving soon-to-be graduates a supportive space to test their work.

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CELEBRATING WORK BY DISABLED ARTISTSThe Unlimited commissions programme, delivered in partnership with Shape Arts, continues to embed work by disabled artists within the UK and international cultural sectors. The latest round of commissions, including research and development awards, went to emerging and established artists, across music, literature, visual arts, combined arts, theatre and dance.

ACROSS ARTSADMIN

“It has become a powerful and positive brand that has established

an internationally recognised platform to showcase the

exceptional range of work produced by disabled artists.”

Abid Hussain, Arts Council Englandon Unlimited

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269,114people saw our touring

productions globally

1,250volunteers helped to make

Station House Opera’s Dominoes happen this year

47number of cities we toured to worldwide

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DOMINOES Station House OperaDominoes tumbled its way to Bordeaux and returned to the UK for the Milton Keynes International Festival, and then to London as part of Artichoke’s Great Fire 350 anniversary celebrations ‘London’s Burning’, where the event culimated in a fiery finale.

“This piece touched deeply on our need to connect with nature in a

simple, gentle way.”Audience member on Calling Tree

CALLING TREE Rosemary LeeCalling Tree was created for two sites in 2016: in Tottenham as part of LIFT Festival and in Camden with The Place for Bloomsbury Festival. Alongside the daily performances, school and community groups got involved through workshops, singing, poetry and performance.

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“A tiny, human gesture that finds real depth in simplicity.”

Review by The Stage, on Empathy Museum

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THE VOICE OF NATURE Tim SpoonerThe Voice of Nature combines puppetry, magic and scientific demonstration in a performed sculpture where materials and objects are manipulated to their breaking point. This new work was presented as part of WATCH OUT festival in Cambridge and B-side Festival in Dorset.

CLARE PATEY Empathy MuseumWith EU funding through Imagine 2020, we produced Empathy Museum at NOW Gallery in Greenwich as part of LIFT Festival. The museum was housed in two converted shipping containers: A Mile in My Shoes, and A Thousand and One Books, a crowd-sourced library.

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MADLOVE the vacuum cleanerAfter an extensive series of workshops and talks with over 300 people with lived experience of mental distress, the vacuum cleaner created a large scale model of a re-imagined asylum as a safe place to go ‘mad’. Madlove was shown as part of ‘Bedlam: The Asylum’ at the Wellcome Collection, London.

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WORLD FACTORY METISArtsadmin toured METIS’ provocative performance game World Factory to Cambridge Junction, Brighton’s Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts and HOME Manchester. Weaving together stories of people connected to the global textile industry, the show riffs on our awareness of mass production and vulture capitalism.

“Informed by a complex tapestry of research and offering seemingly

endless possible permutations, World Factory is itself a piece of

master craftsmanship, meticulously constructed.”

Catherine Love, Exeunt Magazine

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462artists supported by the

Artist Development team through one-to-one advisory sessions held in

person, on the phone or by email

81artists supported through five free practical Sweatshops for artists on marketing, finance and grant applications

9artists supported by Artsadmin’s

Artist Bursary Scheme, which includes a cash award and 18 months of

mentoring and advocacy

PERFORMANCE LABSWe curated two Weekender Labs led by Lucy Cash and Vlatka Horvat. Three of the artists Vlatka met for the first time during the Weekender Lab, including an Artsadmin Youth Board member, were invited to perform in her major commission at HAU in Berlin.

In addition to these, for the first time we hosted an extended international lab and associated performance as part of the public programme led by Sonia Gomez.

BURSARY SCHEMEOur 2016 cohort of bursary artists joined us in April 2016. They are: Alicja Rogalska, FK Alexander, Larry Achiampong, Nwando Ebizie, Poppy Jackson, Richard Hards, Sam Curtis, Tim Bromage and Victoria Gray.

The Artist Development team has set up a network of organisations as ‘allies’ across the UK to increase opportunities for artists from outside London and to provide regional support.

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ARTISTDEVELOPMENT

“I really enjoyed the co-working experience – the space of

pursuing one’s solo work in the presence of others.”

Participant on Sonia Gomez Lab

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3,347people attended 59 public

performances, discussion and screenings from UK

and international artists

84artists and companies from across the UK showcased as part of A Nation’s Theatre festival

85%capacity use of our studio

spaces over the year

PUBLIC PROGRAMMEToynbee Studios hosted performances by artists and companies including Catherine Hoffman, Steakhouse Live, Sonia Gomez, Gary Stevens, Jinkx Monsoon and Peaches Christ.

We joined forces with over 20 venues across London to present A Nation’s Theatre – a two-month celebration of theatre from around the UK. We invited Artsadmin Summer School lead artist and ex-bursary recipient Nic Green to perform political satire Cock and Bull, as well as Selina Thompson with her powerful installation Race Cards.

STUDIO HIREWe were delighted to welcome organisations representing a variety of artforms and businesses who operate locally and nationally. They include: Sheffield Theatres, Station House Opera, Crisis, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. Our tenants, Michael Clark Company devised their new dance piece to a simple, rock ‘n’ roll... song in our Steve Whitson Studio.

We were also very happy to host some of the 1,400 performers as part of 14-18 NOW commission We’re Here Because We’re Here by Jeremy Deller.

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TOYNBEESTUDIOS

“It is so wonderful for us to be able to rehearse in the nicest

studios in London!”John Coke, Bury Court Opera

FINANCE

INCOME EXPENDITURE

£342,359

£204,640

£463,409

£178,683

£533,072

£585,811

£1,132,701

£541,601

* In addition to expenditure there is £314,282 total depreciation on fixed assets, £304,474 restricted capital funds and £9,808 unrestricted funds.

£380,257

£1,459

Fundraised income

Earned income from Toynbee Studios

Earned income from charitable activities

Unlimited

Arts Council England NPO

Other statutory funding

Investments Raising funds

Managing Toynbee Studios

Charitable activities

Unlimited

£2,247,223 £2,141,397*

£42,628

Board of TrusteesFeimatta Conteh Vera ChokJoost FrankenCharles Garrad (Chair) Stella HallLois KeidanFreya MurrayAlison Ritchie Mhora SamuelJeremy Smeeth

StaffManuel BarrosoSian BaxterBridie BellChloe BoothAlex BrownNicky ChildsChief DawethiJessica DenningSteve EhrlicherClara GiraudMark GodberManick GovindaCat HarrisonCelia HoSarah HowardJudith Knight MBEOrly LascellesGill Lloyd MBESiobhan McGrathEno MfonMwiza MkandawireAnia ObolewiczMary OsbornSimon Overington-HickfordBill Pearson Sarah PhillipsAnusha RupasingheCaitlin SereyMarine ThevenetDavid TitmussJennifer TomkinsNikki TomlinsonSam TrotmanAlexander TurtonSelma WillcocksClaire WoodhillJames Zatka-Haas

AssociatesPhilippa BarrAnna Ledgard

Artists Zarina BhimjiClare PateyCuriousChris DobrowolskiLa RibotRosemary LeeStacy MakishiMETISGraeme MillerAmy SharrocksGary StevensStation House Operathe vacuum cleanerTim SpoonerCaroline Wright

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