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Applications open for
£100,000 Art Fund Prize 2011 and the new Clore Award for Museum Learning
Michael Portillo announced as Chair of Judges,
Art Fund Prize 2011
Today,
Monday 4 October, the Art Fund announces that the application process is open
for the Art Fund Prize 2011 and the new Clore Award for Museum Learning.
The Art Fund Prize is the most prestigious prize in the museum world and
annually awards £100,000 to a museum or gallery that
demonstrates excellence, originality and imagination for a project the previous
year.
Under the umbrella of the Art Fund Prize, we are delighted to be announcing
that for 2011, there will be a new Award – the Clore Award for Museum Learning.
The single award of £10,000 will recognise and celebrate quality, impact and
innovation in using museums and galleries for learning activities or
initiatives. It is aimed at both formal and informal learning initiatives or
projects which focus on the development of skills, knowledge, understanding, values, ideas, feelings and
enjoyment.
Stephen
Deuchar, Director of the Art Fund, said: “Recognising
excellence for new initiatives – be they exhibitions, programmes, buildings,
refurbishments, acquisitions and much more – the Art Fund Prize is a fantastic
platform from which to make a significant noise about your institution and to
reach out to new and existing audiences. The rewards are great, for winner and
applicants alike. Do apply!”
Dame
Vivien Duffield DBE, Chairman, the Clore Duffield Foundation, said: “My
Foundation has long supported learning spaces and programmes in museums and
galleries. We are therefore delighted to be supporting this new Clore Award to
recognise the creativity, energy and achievements of learning staff in engaging
people of all ages with our material culture. The Award is an important new
dimension to the Art Fund Prize for 2011.”
Lars Tharp, member of the 2010 judging panel, commented that “the
Prize benefits the whole museum sector, not just the winner.”
We
are also pleased to announce that Michael Portillo will be this year’s Chair of the Judges, following on
from Kirsty Young who held the position last year.
Michael
Portillo, Chair of the Judges, said: "Those entrusted with Britain's rich
resource of museum collections are constantly innovating, finding new ways to display
their treasures, and seeking to develop their buildings with vivid new designs.
This prize seeks to reward their efforts and to draw the public's
attention to those advances. I am greatly looking forward to being able
to visit some of the outstanding improvements around the nation, and to
chairing the process by which we recognise the best of the year."
The full judging panel will be announced in November 2010.
The Art Fund Prize and the Clore Award for Museum Learning are
open to all museums and galleries in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands
and the Isle of Man. The deadline is 1 December 2010. To find out more,
please visit: www.artfundprize.org.uk.
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The
Art Fund Prize
The
Art Fund Prize is administered by The Museum Prize, a charitable company
created in 2001 by representatives of National Heritage, the Museums
Association, The Art Fund and the Campaign for Museums.
These
organisations agreed to put aside award schemes they formerly ran (including
National Heritage’s Museum of the Year) and lend their support to this single
major prize.
The
Chair of Judges
Michael Portillo was born in North London in 1953. His father,
Luis, had come to Britain as a refugee at the end of the Spanish Civil War, and
his mother, Cora, was brought up in Fife. She met Luis while she was an
undergraduate at Oxford.
Michael attended a grammar school, Harrow County, and went to Peterhouse,
Cambridge, where he gained a first class degree in History.
He left Cambridge in 1975, and for a year worked for a shipping company. He
moved to the Conservative Research Department in 1976, where he spent three
years. At the General Election in 1979 he was responsible for briefing Margaret
Thatcher before her press conferences. For the next two years he was special
adviser to the Secretary of State for Energy.
He worked for Kerr McGee Oil (UK) Ltd from 1981 - 1983. He contested the
Birmingham Perry Bar seat at the 1983 Election.
In 1982 Michael and Carolyn married. They first met when they were at school.
The
Sponsors
The Art Fund is the UK’s national fundraising charity for works of art. We
believe that everyone should have access to great art and that by bringing
together the contributions of all our members and supporters, we can play a
part in enriching the range, quality and understanding of art for all to
experience. We campaign, fundraise and give money to help museums and galleries
buy and show art, and we promote its enjoyment through our events and
membership scheme. Recent grant highlights include leading the £3.3 million
campaign to save the Staffordshire Hoard, and helping to buy a new commission,
Antony Gormley’s 6 Times, for the Scottish National Gallery of Modern
Art. We don’t receive government funding; our members and supporters make our
work possible. For more information, contact the Press Office on 020 7225 4888.
The
Clore Duffield Foundation
is chaired by Dame Vivien Duffield DBE and has a strong focus on supporting
cultural learning, particularly within museums and galleries and at heritage
sites. www.cloreduffield.org.uk. It is one of the founding partners
of the Cultural Learning Alliance, a collective voice working to ensure that
all children and young people have meaningful access to culture in this
difficult economic climate.
www.culturallearningalliance.org.uk
Help us raise £2.7m to save The Procession to Calvary by Pieter Brueghel the
Younger for the National Trust’s Nostell Priory.
To discover more and support our joint campaign visit
http://artfund.org/procession