A N N U A L REPORT 2011/12
VI SI O N STATEMENT
VS Vision, Mission and Values
Mission Statement
Values
“ARTS FROM DIVERSE CULTURES FOR AlL”
“Stimulating new perspectives about the value of diversity in art and society”
• Nurturing: To become a place where talent and creativity is nurtured.
NAE will champion, embrace and engender cultural diversity in all that we do. We will play a leading and stimulating role in the region and ensure that diversity resonates more widely at a national and international level. Through its commitment to informing and promoting the relationship between art and society, NAE will strive to make increasingly visible the contribution of diverse voices to this agenda.
• Accessible: To make art and culture accessible to all. • Open and experimental: To be open and receptive to new ideas and opportunities. • Excellence: To recognize the value of excellence in all that we do.
C H AI R M A N S REPORT
CR
This was a year of introducing change, consolidating strengths and making the new staffing structure, introduced in 2010/11, work effectively. After a successful year with the launch of British Art Show 7, featuring seminal artists like Christian Marclay, the challenge was on in order to sustain and grow momentum.
Our vision to lead and champion cultural diversity and the creative expression of minority cultures continued to introduce a broad programme of activities. Our role as a national centre and an organisation driven to stimulate new perspectives surrounding artistic and social diversity has led us to present good quality seminal exhibitions. I thank the NAE team for delivering to high standards, particularly in a year where resources were scarce and capacity on the ground refined. It was great news that our first major commission, Floating Coffins by Zineb Sedira, was bought as part of TATE’s permanent collection. It featured in their major exhibition ‘Migrations’ as a significant and prominent work of art in a group show of historic influences on British Art in modern times. We also had major success in being selected as one of the eight national pilots, as part of the Digital Research and Development fund for Arts and Culture, led by NESTA (an independent UK-based charity with a mission to help people and organisations bring great ideas to life), ACE (Arts Council England) and AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council). This was a remarkable achievement, since the fund was oversubscribed by over 5000% with over 500 applicants. NAE teamed up with Artfinder and eight national gallery and visual arts organisations from North to South of the country to plan and deliver the Culture Cloud project.
We were also proud to support in the development of Nottingham’s first artist-led studio, Primary, a sister organisation, which finally got the green light in securing a site to operate from. During the year NAE began an Organisational Development programme. This has led to the introduction of new thought and leadership including the recruitment of a new Director of Programmes, Melanie Kidd, to help support the CEO and the organisation and deliver the creative programme. We also recruited new board members, bringing in expertise from both business and higher education with the introduction of Tasleem Iqbal and Professor Chris O’Brien OBE. A stronger senior team and board meant that we were able to build new foundations and extend in order to ascertain investment for our work, aspirations and vision. I am proud of the organisation’s achievements, especially balancing our local and international efforts, and would like to thank and credit all the artists who enrich our experiences, the audiences, the NAE team, board trustees, volunteers and funders for their tireless support and efforts. I hope that you continue to visit and engage with our space and programme and very much look forward to seeing you here at NAE in the near future. Edwin Maxwell MBE Chair of New Art Exchange
C HI E F EXECUTIVE OFFICER REPORT
CEO At NAE I believe we should ‘think and deliver the new’ and in 2011/12 there were many new introductions including new staff, board members, programmes and partnerships. It was also a year of consolidation and the settling in of a refined team structure. We continued to introduce novel strands and activities, hosting, incubating and growing a successful artistic programme and introduced a strong framework for organisational development and change.
The year included many highlights; the purchase of Floating Coffins by TATE and our project Culture Cloud receiving pilot funding from NESTA, an independent UK-based charity with a mission to help people and organisations bring great ideas to life, ACE (Arts Council England) and AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council). This reminded me of how far we had travelled as an organisation but also as a physical space morphing from a strong grass roots history into New Art Exchange, a contemporary creative instigator.
Exhibitions The exhibitions programme saw ‘the new’ to the ‘highly acclaimed’ rub shoulders in the main gallery space. Raghu Rai, started the year passing the baton to Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou Rahme in their exhibition, partnering with Delfina Foundation, The Zone which radicalised the appearance and architecture of our main gallery. Following The Zone came the spell binding, Leo Asemota with his ENS Project, First Principles a series of intricate images, film, sculptures, live broadcasts exploring technology, art, (post) colonial subject matter and contexts. Later we would see a new partnership emerge between NAE, Cornerhouse, Asian Triennial Manchester and Lisson Gallery as we together launched the brilliantly detailed works of Rashid Rana unveiling the micro within the macro in Everything Is Happening At Once’.
In the same year we also presented Patrin, with Monitoring group, an exhibition exploring and documenting the reality and lives of Gypsy communities in the UK with artists Cecillia Jardemar & Sara Heitlinger. For our Central Gallery supporting new talent, we hosted artists such as Anna De La Vega, whose documentation of how a charity worked with villagers implement new technologies to improve sustainable lifestyles. Djanogly City Academy continued to present high quality work from their pupils too. Academic In Residence This year was the introduction of our Academic in Residence where we featured Dr Zahira Harb, Dr Mark Rawlinson and Dr Paul Gladston, who commented, critiqued and furthered their own practice as hands on academics on the ground in a gallery space in an inner city neighbourhood where ‘the street never lies’.
Artist Development Our development programme for artists experiMENTOR was also born. This provided artists such as Tasawar Bashir, Alia Pathan, Sayed Hasan and artist IAMKSO a chance to share and develop their genius thoughts in real environments with curatorial guidance from the NAE team and network. For example Bashir’s data visualisation of the Koran saw him invert and explore spirituality, using artistic tools in a one month intense residency
making NAE’s main gallery his personal cave and hideout. Alia Pathan shared several ideas, performances and interventions with audiences and both Sayed and IAMKSO teamed up to deliver an emotive project at Heathrow Terminal 5 in My Grandad’s Car. We continued with the European Volunteer Service programme by introducing new partners from Italy, Spain, France and Egypt hosting four voluntary residencies working closely with World Event for Young Artists.
Youth Arts Research and Development (YARD) Supported by BBC Children in Need, YARD our flagship programme for young people’s creative development, were successful in their application in winning the internationally acclaimed youth theatre initiative Contacting the World. YARD also expanded its programme, benefiting more inner city young people of Nottingham and connecting with wider festivals and venues like NEAT, Nottingham Playhouse and Corby Cube. YARD participant Yves McKenzie was made Youth Arts and Cultural Ambassador for the Commonwealth in 2011. This was brilliant news and testament to the YARD model in empowering and supporting the growth of young talent from the neighbourhood.
New Initiatives / Community We introduced VOCAL, our ‘gloves off’ series of debates affecting local and international communities where we discussed the issues facing youth culture, Muslim communities and a debate about our purpose. Also introduced was Who’s In The Kitchen, bringing a series of guest chefs, from the local neighbourhood who, by responding to exhibition themes, cooked their favourite dishes and had them served as part of our international café menu. The book swap programme, Hisaab Kithaab, came out of our EVS programme and has been hugely successful. Locally we continued to support artist groups including First Floor, Black Drop, Culture Box, Manushi Dance, Stella Vision, and our touring ventured into the region in venues like the Harley Gallery and Richard Attenborough Centre.
Festivals We love Festivals at NAE. As a new initiative in December 2011, NAE premiered Ishraqah a festival celebrating Middle Eastern art and culture, working in partnership with the University of Lincoln and a partner organisation Agora in Alexandria, Egypt. We presented seminal films and debates triggered by 18 Days and featured films from the International Community Film Festival. This year Nottingham Mela made history once again as, for the first time, it featured in the Riverside Festival capturing record audiences and featuring a
more experimental programme juxtaposed with traditional Mela magic – sizzling cuisine, folk, Bhangra and exuberant dances. All the progress and achievements in the year cannot be ignored without recognising the commitment and support of the artists, audiences, the NAE team and board trustees, our volunteers, funders and partners for continuing to support the vision and ideology of our organisation. Skinder Hundal Chief Executive
E X HI BI TI O N S IN THIS PERIOD
EITP Exhibitions April 2011 – March 2012
Main Gallery:
Central Gallery:
Touring Exhibitions:
Raghu Rai, Invocation to India Closed on 30 April 2011 *Also shown in the Mezzanine Gallery
Small is Beautiful, Anna de la Vega Closed on 30 April 2011
The Zone, Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou Rahme 21 May - 20 August 2011
India’s Golden Triangle, Mervyn Mitchell Closed on 30 April 2011
An(other) Story: Folk & Tribal Arts In India 18 July - 30 September Richard Attenborough Centre, Leicester
Leo Asemota, The Ens Project, First Principles 16 September – 26 November 2011 *Also shown in the Mezzanine Gallery
Rashid Rana, Everything is Happening At Once 14 January - 31 March 2012 *Also shown in the Mezzanine Gallery
Mezzanine Gallery: Patrin, Cecillia Jardemar & Sara Heitlinger 21 May - 3 September 2011
*Also a touring exhibition: 18 July – 30 September Harley Gallery, Worksop
Zed Sardar 21 May – 6 August 2011 Djanogly City Academy Exhibition of Student’s work 15 August – 10 September 2011 Lauren Page 16 September – 26 November 2011 Kiren Hanif ‘Travellers Tails’ 3 December 2011 - 8 January 2012 Central Gallery
Your Space Exhibition: Tasawar Bashir, Art Faith Lab 3 December 2011 - 8 January 2012 Main Gallery Adrian Shaw’s ‘Mama Raj’ 3 December 2011 - 8 January 2012 Mezzanine Gallery
NAE Commissioned Work Featured: Floating Coffins Zineb Sedira Exhibited as part of Migrations, 31 January – 12 August 2012 Tate Britain (exhibited and purchased by Tate Britain)
K E Y ACHIEVEMENTS
KA Key Achievements April 2011 – March 2012 We hosted the widely acclaimed Pakistani artist Rashid Rana in his first exhibition in Nottingham. Rana is a hugely significant artist who is celebrated as the most accomplished artist from South Asia today. Floating Coffins, commissioned by NAE in 2008, was bought by Tate in autumn 2011 and has since been featured in the seminal exhibition Migrations at Tate Britain. NAE’s newly conceived Culture Cloud project secured £54,000 from the highly sought after NESTA Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. Our young people’s programme YARD (Youth Arts Research Development) reached international success by being awarded one of three UK places in the International young people’s theatre festival, Contacting the World, devised and managed by Contact, Manchester. It was also announced that YARD would be twinned with the Moradokmai Theatre Community, Thailand, for the festival. We delivered the first two phases of the ACE funded Organisational Development programme working towards a long term sustainable organisation.
We welcomed four new EVS (European Voluntary Service) volunteers to Nottingham. Respectively from Italy, Spain, France and Egypt. These young people have begun an intensive one year placement within NAE and our EVS partner, WEYA (World Event for Young Artists). Each volunteer brings with them specialist skills and an international perspective which contributes to NAE’s ambition to engage diverse cultures and build international relationships. We’ve consolidated our relationship with WEYA. NAE is a key venue supporting this initiative which will see a thousand young artists from all over the world arrive for the festival to be held in September 2012. In addition to Mela Weekend which engaged thousands of people at two sites (NAE and Riverside) we launched a second community orientated festival, Ishraqah 2nd and 3rd December, in collaboration with Lincoln University, Ishraqah was a festival celebrating Middle Eastern art and culture.
P E R F O R M A N C E DATA Visitors to NAE Main gallery entries
53,887 31,183
Mezzanine gallery entries
20,580
Central gallery entries
32,332
Number of attendees at live performances / events (Including Mela)
32,711
Number of education / workshop participants
3,995
Touring exhibitions audiences Live events programmed Level of customer satisfaction scoring 4 and above out of a range 1 to 6
24,374 91 99%
S T A T E M E N T OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES 2011 / 12 Incoming resources
2011/12
Unrestricted funds Arts Council England
Resources expended Unrestricted funds
398,593
Charitable Activities
452,755 133,929
Nottingham City Council
38,600
Project Expenditure & Publicity
Sponsorship & Fundraising
20,887
Governance Costs
Earned Income
70,084 Restricted Funds
Net Incoming Resources before Transfers
61,620
Grants & Projects
Transfers Between Funds
23,194
Net Movement in Funds
84,814
Brought Forward at 1 April 2011
157,233
Carry Forward at 31 March 2012
72,419
Restricted Funds 86,919
3,100 589,784
528,164
Grants Receivable
2011/12
85,942
B O A R D MEMBERS Chair Edwin Maxwell MBE Vice Chair Sukhbinder Johal MBE Secretary C Mohan Khera Director Sardul Gill Director Leslie McDonald Director Henderson Mullin Until December 2011
Director Dr Lisa Mooney Director Dr Heidi Winklhofer Until December 2011
Director Tasleem Iqbal From December 2011
Director Professor Chris O’Brien, OBE From December 2011
T E A M MEMBERS
Chief Executive Skinder Hundal
Assistant Yard Co-ordinator Alison Garner
Director of Operations & Enterprise Mark Stephens
Assistant Yard Co-ordinator Elizabeth Savage
Director of Programmes Melanie Kidd
Project Assistant Ravi Abbott
From October 2011
Marketing & Communications Manager Raam Tarat Until December 2011
Facilities & Technical Manager Andrew Lindley Office (Support Services) Manager Emma Chadwick Until August 2011
Office (Support Services) Manager Ian Lunn From August 2011
Executive & Projects Assistant Amindokht Shooshtari From March 2012
Exhibitions & Programmes Co-ordinator Roshni Belakavadi Marketing & Public Relations Officer Nayo Hunt From November 2011
Community Engagement Officer Mervyn Mitchell Until August 2011
Youth Engagement Officer Rachael Young
Gallery Assistant Kyle Futers Until March 2012
Gallery Assistant Benjamin Lord
Until March 2012
Until March 2012
Gallery Assistant Oliver Scutt
Customer Services Duty Manager Anita Kumari
Until March 2012
Gallery Assistant Amindokht Shoosthari
Chef / Guest Services Officer Stephen Smith
Until March 2012
Gallery Assistant Alice Thickett
Guest Services Assistant (Catering) Benjamin Lord
Until March 2012
European Voluntary Service (EVS) Islam Muhammad
Guest Services Assistant (Catering) Treasa Robert
Until January 2012
Guest Services Assistant (Cleaning) Mawusi Morrison
European Voluntary Service (EVS) Laura Rossi Until December 2011
Guest Services Assistant (Cleaning) Doris Kumi Administrative / Marketing Assistant Elaine Carthy Administrative / Marketing Assistant Alice Thickett Administrative / Marketing Assistant Jaskamal Banger Relief Receptionist Oliver Scutt From January 2012
European Voluntary Service (EVS) Patrice Puchaux From February 2012
European Voluntary Service (EVS) Shaden Meleas From March 2012
European Voluntary Service (EVS) Erica Melloni From February 2012
European Voluntary Service (EVS) MarĂa Jesus Oporto Brieva From February 2012
P A R T N E R ORGANISATIONS
Core Funders
Partners, Funders and Supporters
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Arts Council England Nottingham City Council
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Arts Council England Nottingham City Council East Midlands Development Agency Greater Nottingham Partnership Neighbourhood Development Company
Programme Funding (Restricted) -------
British Council BBC Children in Need NESTA Arts Council England Arts and Humanities Council Digital Research & Development Fund
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AGMA - Association of Greater Manchester Authorities Agraa Alexandria Aicon Gallery, London Akademi Apples and Snakes Artreach (Night of Festivals) Arts & Humanities Research Council Arts Council England ArtsAdmin Asian Triennial Manchester Autograph Baby Studios BBC Asian Network BBC Radio Nottingham BJCEM Blackdrop/Pendrop Broadway Media Centre Capital FM Arena Capitalise Network Carnival of Monsters Chaterjee & Lal Chinese Arts Centre City Arts Cultivate Culture Box Dance4 Darbar Festival Deda Delfina Foundation Derby QUAD Djanogly City Academy Embrace Arts EMVAN - East Midlands Visual Arts Network Experiene Nottinghamshire FACT Film and Video Umbrella Format International Photography Festival Freedom Theatre Galleries of Justice Hatch Hayward Touring Holgate School Hyson Green Youth Club Igniting Ambition – Cultural Olympiad Lakeside Arts Centre Lakeside Arts Centre Le MAC Leftlion Leicester University Light Night Nottingham Lisson Gallery Liverpool Biennial Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool Museums (The Walker Gallery) London Councils London South Bank University MACE - Media Archive for Central England Mad Lab Magnum Photos Mainstream Partnership Manushi Dance Midlands Art Centre/sampad MLA Renaissance East Midlands Monitoring Group motiroti National Schools Film Week
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NCCL - National Centre for Citizenship and the Law NEAT11 NESTA Newark & Sherwood District Council Next Level Projects Northampton University Nottingham Asian Arts Council Nottingham Black Archive Nottingham Carnival Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery Nottingham Contemporary Nottingham Liming Nottingham Mela Network Group Nottingham Photography Hub Nottingham Playhouse Nottingham Trent University Nottingham Visual Arts Nottinghamshire County Council Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group Primary PVA LabCulture Richard Attenborough Centre Shisha Southbank Centre Southwell Minster School Sowing Seeds Spirit Nottingham Stella Vision Studio West Synapse Festival The Anglo-Sikh Heritage Trail The Drum The Legacy Trust The Mark It Collective The Mighty Creatives The Royal Centre Tilt UK Young Artists University of Lincoln University of Nottingham White Cube Gallery WORD! Writing East Midlands (The Lyric Lounge) Youth in Action
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