Submit Entries for Seascape Scale Artist Residency Program (United Kingdom)

The Solent Seascape Project (SSP) is a collaborative, long-term nature restoration initiative in the Solent strait – a diverse coastal system stretching from the tip of the Needles out to Selsey and Pagham Harbour. It is the first project of its kind in the UK to initiate seascape scale recovery. In partnership with ten organisations, they are actively restoring and reconnecting four key coastal habitats – seagrass meadows, saltmarshes, seabird nesting sites and native oyster reefs – to create a thriving, functioning seascape for all. These habitats are home to incredible local marine wildlife, including thresher sharks, seahorses and tens of thousands of migrating birds.

Community engagement is key to the project. Whether this is through encouraging and inspiring interest in the Solent’s seascape, volunteering opportunities, or co-designing a Seascape Recovery Plan, it is important for local communities to be involved.

Aims

• The key aims to help reconnect the solent are:
  • Actively Restore: four key habitats.
  • Collaborate: with the Solent community to co-create a long-term Seascape Recovery Plan.
  • Develop: mechanisms for upscaling restoration by working with government and regulators.
  • Assess: vital ecosystem service benefits.
  • Empower: the local community by sharing knowledge, building capacity and increasing involvement in seascape recovery.

Funding Information

• Up to £4,000, to cover the artist fee, and all production and participation costs including materials and travel.

Eligibility Criteria

• This Artist Residency is an open call to artists who are interested in collaborating with the Solent Seascape Project to celebrate the ways that communities connect to this vibrant seascape, where restored habitats will allow local wildlife to thrive again.
  • They are looking for artists that are interested in:
    • helping us to build connections with local communities;
    • communicating the work of the Solent Seascape Project to new audiences;
    • providing creative ways for people to engage with their local seascape.
• The residency is open to local artists, makers, performers and other creatives working in any medium.
  • They welcome proposals from artists who are:
    • Solent-based or have strong connections to the Solent;
    • passionate about the Solent and working within the seascape;
    • willing to collaborate with local communities to co-produce artworks;
    • over 21 and have demonstrable experience of arts practice in a related area.

For more information, visit Solent Seascape Project.