Art without barriers
Annual Review 2017-2018
Shape Arts at Tate Exchange, 2018. Photo by Andy Barker 02
About Shape Arts Shape is a disability-led arts organisation which works to improve access to culture for disabled people by providing opportunities for disabled artists, training cultural institutions to be more open to disabled people, and through running participatory arts and development programmes. Our mission is the full inclusion of disabled people in arts and culture as artists, audiences and workers.
Our values • Inclusion • Ambition • Creativity • Excellence
Our strategic aims • Work with arts and cultural sector organisations towards promoting greater accessibility and inclusion - opening talent and audience pathways. • Raise the aspirations of disabled people wanting to work and lead in the arts and cultural sector, providing high quality accessible learning and development opportunities to support their careers. • Support disabled artists to achieve excellence and inspire a new generation of artists to emerge. • Improve the public perception of disabled artists and raise their profile across the UK and internationally, to diverse and growing audiences. • Lead with landmark and influential “game-changer” projects to build our creative and cultural reach, and continue to pioneer the way for disabled and diverse people who face barriers.
All of Shape’s work is informed by the Social Model of Disability.
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Artistic Statement Our interaction with artists is central to our work, and we support and help to empower disabled artists working across a range of creative disciplines. We provide professional development opportunities for artists, including mentoring schemes, workshops, talks and networking opportunities, and advice about raising their profiles. We hold accessible exhibitions and showcase events, both live and online, where work can be received and recognised, challenged and championed, before diverse and growing audiences. Our programme of commissions, bursaries and awards is rigorous and critically acclaimed, and we are privileged to work with some of the boldest and best artistic and curatorial talent in the UK. Many of these award-winning artists go on to mentor younger or emerging artists within our programme. We champion high quality art that is ambitious, challenging and intriguing. We celebrate the creative process as well as the finished product. We support the element of risk in making excellent art and we value creative ambition.
Work by Mark Tamer for Shape Arts at Liberty Festival, 2017. Photo by Andy Barker
Work by David Lock at ARMB: Shortlist 9 Exhibition, Artlink Hull, 2017. Photo by Artlink Hull
We are dedicated to working with emerging as well as established disabled artists, and are committed to inclusion and diversity, working with people of all ages and from a range of cultural and economic backgrounds.
As a disability-led organisation, we support Arts Council England’s Creative Case for Diversity across our artistic programme. We do this by working with artists from every background and social group, and where possible encouraging collaboration between different disciplines and individuals. We also support our sector through provision of access training and auditing, by which means venues of every size and orientation can improve their ways of working with disabled artists, and improve the quality and accessibility of their offer to all disabled people, including their audiences. As part of an overall sustainability strategy, we work pro-actively in support of initiatives, whether creative, economic or practical, which have as their goal the sustainability of the environment. 05
Unlimited commission “Vogue: The Unlimited House of Krip� by Fittings Multimedia Arts at Manchester Ball, 2018. Photo by Fotocad
Chair’s Report Last year was a period of change for Shape. Change can be unsettling and risky; it can also be positive and rejuvenating. Reaching our 40th anniversary was a great milestone and a time to take stock, but we are now pushing forward again. Congratulations to our new CEO David Hevey and the team for managing change so efficiently and keeping Shape at the vanguard of disability-led arts organisations and a catalyst in supporting and enabling others in the arts. The following pages demonstrate what a successful year we have had under new leadership and will remind us of the strong foundation we are building on: excellent teamwork, strong partnerships, productive
relationships and a growing reputation across the arts as an organisation that knows its business and delivers results and solutions. Our ambition remains steadfast, even within the financial constraints that we face. In a year when funders repeat the rhetoric of diversity, we remind them again that we are an embodiment of all that is positive regarding this, with so many powerful stories to tell and examples of inclusive practice to share. Shape is needed now more than ever if we are all in our sector to move beyond the rhetoric and really embrace a cultural diversity that truly includes disabled people. Tony Heaton OBE
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Chief Executive’s Report Shape is about access and creative success: removing barriers and putting support into place so that creative and artistic excellence can thrive is integral to how we have delivered our programmes in yet another busy and successful year. Strong focus on our purpose has led to great results with both our NPO programme and our projects NDACA and Unlimited. This year we saw the Shape Open exhibition going from strength to strength, its theme of “Collective Influence” a true mirror of our times, the Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary continuing to grow its impact and reach, and Shape artists taking over a floor
of Tate Modern as part of Tate Exchange, creating excellent walk-in engagement with many visitors staying for hours at a time. Online, too, we continue to reach audiences in the millions. Our success, as ever, is built on great partnerships, ideas and relationships: our staff, our funders, and our solid Board of Trustees, chaired by Tony Heaton OBE. Above all, though, we must thank the artists, creatives and cultural practitioners whom Shape continues to support, and who continue to support us with their vision, approaches and radical new culture around which we thrive and grow. David Hevey
Noëmi Lakmaier performs “The Task of Containing” at Tate Modern, 2018. Photo by Andy Barker 07
Introduction 2017/18 was Shape’s final year of a three year operational plan as a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO), funded and supported by Arts Council England. Alongside the growth and success of the Unlimited programme, and the continuation of the delivery phase of the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive (NDACA), our core NPO work found us continuing to develop the talent of disabled artists, as well as disabled people aspiring to work and lead in arts and culture, whilst at the same time building new arts audiences and ensuring that cultural venues are accessible and fully inclusive for disabled visitors. Over the year we: •Supported over 120 artists, at least 80% of whom were disabled. •Produced, supported, curated or co-curated more than 40 exhibitions and artistic events. •Engaged over 92,000 live audience members. •Reached over 3 million people online. •Providing training, advocacy, and access audits to over 20 UK organisations, reaching over 50 staff members. •Trained more than 200 international cultural sector workers in Disability Equality and inclusive practices.
The Shape Open, 2018. Photo by Rachel Cherry 08
This year, we continued to raise artists’ profiles through providing excellent development platforms and opportunities. Our artists are going on to achieve widespread recognition in the mainstream press, news outlets and a variety of online channels; this wider reach has rippled out to over 180 million views, visits and online hits, and with another year of quality support for artists achieved, this looks set to continue.
Shape Arts at Tate Exchange, 2018. Photo by Andy Barker
It is with great sadness that we received news that our founder, Gina Levete MBE, passed away in June 2018. Shape exists as part of Gina’s broad and varied legacy of support for disabled and other marginalised people in society, much of it connected with creative and cultural interventions. Back in 1978, speaking about the work of Shape, Gina observed that, “Through the very small amount of creative arts that have been introduced into these settings, people are increasingly realising that this is a wonderful way of breaking down barriers and encouraging communication between different groups of people.” Gina’s words continue to resonate as we work to break barriers today, four decades later, across the arts and cultural sector and beyond. 09
Work in progress by Terence Birch at his studio at Pallant House Gallery, 2018. Photo by Becky Dann
Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary This year saw the tenth anniversary of the Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary (ARMB), Shape’s prestigious flagship art award. Artist Terence Birch was announced as the tenth recipient of the award, selected from a shortlist of Sarah Carpenter, Catherine Cleary, Nicola Lane and himself. Terence received a £10,000 bursary and undertook an accompanying residency with Pallant House Gallery, in partnership with the University of Chichester, from February to April 2018.
influence of the award’s namesake Adam Reynolds. The durational performance draws on Heidegger’s seminal philosophical text “The Thing” as well as Reynolds’ unrealised performance “Sisyphus”, exploring themes of futility and meaning through repetitive and seemingly meaningless acts.
The diversity and quality of applications to the ARMB continue to go from strength to strength, as illustrated by April 2017’s Shortlist 9 exhibition at Artlink Hull, To mark this momentous milestone showcasing the work of the artists we commissioned the award’s shortlisted for the previous ARMB: first recipient, Noëmi Lakmaier, Anna Berry, Juan delGado, Ruth Le to create new work - “The Task of Gear, David Lock, Peter Matthews, Containing” - in response to the Aidan Moesby, and preceding legacy and enduring recipient Oliver MacDonald. 10
The Shape Open Our sixth Shape Open was held at The Art Pavilion, Mile End, and saw 33 artists responding to and exploring the theme “Collective Influence”. Exhibited works were selected from an exciting range of submissions by a panel of judges comprising our Patron Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA), 2017 Open prize winner Richard Hunt, and Shape Chief Executive David Hevey and Programme Coordinator Sara Dziadik. This year’s prize winning piece was Helen Jones with “Identi-Kit”, a mixed textile and found object installation; the winner of the People’s Choice Award was Alice Rose Floyd with a series of artists’ books. “The Open is a hugely important platform for disabled people to express themselves on all aspects of disability.” – 2018 Open winner Helen Jones The Open is renowned for supporting emerging disabled artists, as well as leading by example on accessible programming. A series of events accompanied the exhibition, including a highly-attended Private View, a professional development event for Open alumni artists led by Be Smart About Art’s Susan Mumford, an artists’ crit with Q-Arts, and a special evening viewing as part of Whitechapel Gallery’s First Thursdays Art Bus tour.
Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA), Shape Open 2018 winner Helen Jones and Shape Chair Tony Heaton OBE at the Shape Open, 2018. Photo by Rachel Cherry 11
Tate Exchange: “Ghosts in the Machine” March 2018 marked Shape’s second year as a founding associate in Tate’s new, collaborative programme, Tate Exchange. Under this year’s theme “Production”, our four-day public residency, “Ghosts in the Machine”, examined how people interact with and produce art that discusses disability, aiming to challenge and explore prevailing assumptions about the role of disabled people in art and culture and investigate the intersections of inclusion, (in)visibility and contribution. Shape’s programme, led by disabled artists, was delivered by Damien Robinson, Nina Thomas and Anahita Harding, Jason WilsherMills and Rubbena AurangzebTariq, each presenting interactive work or high-quality workshops.
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Shape Arts at Tate Exchange, 2018. Photo by Andy Barker
The National Disability Arts Collection and Archive presented the heritage story of the Disability Arts Movement with artist Poppy Nash, and to celebrate the ten year anniversary of the Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary artist Noëmi Lakmaier created and performed a new, durational outdoor piece. “Ghosts in the Machine” achieved over 1,500 visitors, alongside over 2,700 live stream and website hits, demonstrating considerable value in raising awareness to do with the inclusion of disabled people in the arts, as well as creating more opportunities for disabled artists, and reinforcing our belief that disabled artists need to be programmed into public spaces much more.
“1995 Disability Discrimination Act” banner, by Jason Wilsher-Mills”. Photo by Andy Barker
The Shape Collection We are proud to hold one of the UK’s most important and exciting collections of work by disabled artists. The Shape Collection currently comprises twenty works either owned by or on long-term loan to Shape by an array of respected artists, including Tony Heaton, Alice Dass, Caroline Cardus, and the late Adam Reynolds, namesake of our flagship art award. Our collection is expanding and work is available to loan on request. In February, the Collection’s “Animals of the Caribbean” by Jack Haslam was exhibited alongside some of Jack’s other works as well as pieces by three other Shape-supported artists at St George’s Hospital, Tooting. This exhibition was viewed by an estimated 28,000 people. Also from the Collection, the House of Commonscommissioned “1995 Disability Discrimination Act” banner by Jason Wilsher-Mills was displayed at our Tate Exchange programme in March, before being loaned for display at The Art House, Wakefield. 13
Children and Young People Over the year we worked with over 200 children and young people in a variety of settings, supporting creative and cultural learning workshops in exhibition and festival settings, as well as in schools. Our work in schools was led by artist Rubbena AurangzebTariq, who over the winter term developed in tandem with 35 disabled students aged 10 to 18 in the Greater London area a project on the theme of Production, which came under the title ‘Don’t Box Me In!’, a reference to the students asserting their voices, creativity and visibility. With the generous support of staff at Tate Modern we conducted educational artwork tours, with students discussing in groups what they had learnt, before taking part in creative workshops constructing figures based on their reflections on the project. As a registered Arts Award centre, we supported the students with their Arts Award qualifications as a result.
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Participants light painting with artist Damien Robinson. Photo by Andy Barker
Our work with schools and other groups of young people also linked with our Tate Exchange programme, with families and groups in attendance aged from 3 to 85.
Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq at Tate Modern, 2018. Photo by Diana Martin
At Liberty Festival, we ran public workshops with artists Oliver MacDonald and Mark Tamer which were accessible for young people and family groups, with Oliver teaching traditional willow weaving techniques, while Mark took participants through the stages of creating a portrait using alternative hand-held photographic treatments.
“We found the workshop to be absolutely fantastic, one of the students said it was their best day ever, it increased their confidence and they interacted so nicely. I noticed they followed you all round the gallery and tried to get to the front, they really found the whole thing fascinating. You are an inspiration. Thank you so much for such a wonderful day – I cannot tell you how happy the students were and how lovely it was to see their confidence soar in a group of deaf students.” One of the schools Shape worked with over the year 15
Unlimited commission “Between Stillness and Storm” by Aidan Moesby at Bluedot Festival, 2017. Photo by Aidan Moesby
Unlimited
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Unlimited, the major arts commissioning programme delivered by Shape and ArtsAdmin, started the year with a new round of 24 exceptional artwork awards, with £945,000 to support six main commissions, seven Research and Development (R&D) awards, five Emerging Artists commissions and six International Collaboration R&Ds. Selected from 269 applications, of which 60 were shortlisted, the works span a range of disciplines spotlighting talented and diverse disabled artists working in the world today.
neoliberalism, a roving installation celebrating mind-wandering and magic carpets, the formation of a House of disabled Vogueball performers, and a dance between two bodies of air.
These new awarded works were more ambitious than ever, and included a performance exploring female desire, sexuality and
Over the summer two additional new works toured to festivals in the north of England, co-commissioned through our partnership with the Northern Festival Network.
The new International Collaboration awards saw artists working together across the globe towards the creation of new projects. Across varying art forms, Unlimited-supported artists in the UK collaborated with artists in India, Japan, Palestine, Singapore and Brazil.
In August 2017 Unlimited launched a call out for round three of commissions for its Emerging Artist and R&D awards. From over 200 expressions of interest a panel of arts industry professionals shortlisted 39 applications, before selecting 13 in March 2018 for awards totalling over £120,000 to develop and ultimately showcase work around the world, including at Southbank Centre’s Unlimited Festival in September 2018. Unlimited also welcomed a new International placement this year, with support from the British Council: Nolan Stevens, from Johannesburg, South Africa, joined the team in London to sit on the
Emerging Artists commission selection panel. Working with the team, Nolan’s hands-on experience of the delivery of the programme focuses on shared learning and growth and a global exchange of knowledge. As Unlimited’s network of allies – arts venues, festivals and organisations that are interested in working with and championing disabled artists and Unlimited commissioned work – grows globally, the programme too grows for the benefit of the Unlimitedawarded artists, and the perception of disabled people continues to change for the better across the world.
Unlimited commission Alegria Samba School by VIVA Carnival, 2017. Photo by VIVA Carnival
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Poppy Nash at Tate Exchange, 2018. Photo by Andy Barker
NDACA It was a productive and exciting year for the different strands of the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive, Shape’s major heritage project. NDACA’s first Research and Development Award scheme was incredibly successful, supporting four artists – chosen from 94 applications – each with a £1,000 grant and five mentoring sessions with key figures from the Disability Arts Movement. NDACA also supported emerging artist Poppy Nash with a grant, allowing her to make a new project inspired by disability arts history which was profiled by the BBC in September. The summer of 2017 was spent filming in London, interviewing key Disability Arts Movement figures on the movement’s history for the Archive’s oral histories. The NDACA Repository, to be hosted at Buckinghamshire New University, was also installed with a selection of physical deposits and specialised tools and furniture.
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October saw us launch the NDACA Paper, a monthly newsletter which explores specific deposits and themes within the Archive.
For Disability History Month (DHM) we produced four educational animations in collaboration with Creative Connections and a series of biographies of key artists and activists, all of which were very well received. NDACA took part in Shape’s Tate Exchange programme Ghosts in the Machine with a workshop titled “No More Pity” led by Poppy Nash and featuring photographs and protest t-shirts from the Archive. With the prompt “What does equality mean to you now?”, the workshop invited visitors to explore the links between art and disability rights activism and contribute their thoughts to be re-interpreted live by Poppy into a printed banner. Throughout the year, we continued to develop the-ndaca.org in the run-up to its June 2018 launch, hosting the digital Archive of oral history films, image galleries, educational resources, biographies and much more. In February 2018, we also welcomed PhD student Chloe Trainor (University of Kent) for three months of volunteering with the project, involving supporting NDACA at Tate Exchange, developing an exhibition at City Hall, and speaking about the Archive at academic events.
Tactile models being created for NDACA, 2017. Photo by Sarah Dormer
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Contemporary Art Benefit Sale at The Hospital Club In October 2017 we held a prestigious – and successful – contemporary art benefit exhibition and sale at London’s renowned The Hospital Club, coinciding with the week of the Frieze Art Fair and listed as part of its City Wide VIP Events programme. On display and for sale at the evening reception were 25 affordable works generously donated by artists in recognition of the legacy of disabled sculptor Adam Reynolds, namesake of Shape’s flagship art award, the Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary – in its tenth year – and the continued importance of our work
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Shape Arts exhibition and benefit sale at The Hospital Club, 2017. Photo by Andy Barker
in pushing for a more inclusive and accessible arts sector for disabled people. We are deeply grateful to the artists who donated their work to us: Anish Kapoor, Anna Ostoya, Barnaby Barford, Charlie Godet Thomas, Christian Furr, Clare Kenny, Diana Al-Hadid, Fiona Banner, Gary Hume, Gavin Turk, Imran Qureshi, Jim Lambie, John Baldessari, Joy Miessi, Julie Umerle, Marc Quinn, Marianna Simnett, Mona Hatoum, Penny Slinger, Pipilotti Rist, Rachel Pimm, Rivane Neuenschwander, Stuart Pearson Wright and Tim Etchells.
Writer Jamie Hale performing at Tate Modern, 2018. Photo by Emma Baker-Griffin
Support for Writers We were delighted, for the third year, to support The Literary Consultancy (TLC) as a regional writing partner, supporting disabled writers on a low income to access high quality professional critiques of their work. Fourteen writers were selected for the Free Reads scheme, and an additional writer was selected for TLC’s excellent mentoring scheme, Chapter and Verse. Nine of the writers selected also attended a series of our writers’ workshops, led by author Lois Keith OBE. Meeting at Tate Modern over a period of two months, the
group tackled a variety of technical issues and built confidence in their skills in a supportive environment, culminating in a public performance of their works at the end of the course. We were also pleased to see writers we support appearing in other areas of our programme, including the Shape Open, and being shortlisted for Unlimited artist commissions. One writer went on to receive Heritage Lottery funding for a project they felt inspired to write a bid for, following our workshop support. 21
Access Consultancy and Training Services Improving access in the arts is one of Shape’s fundamental objectives, and to this end we’ve been running valuable access training and consultancy services for the sector for over four decades. We had another busy year providing access audits and disability equality training nationally – supporting the Creative Case for Diversity – and internationally, supporting ongoing strategic developments in wider Europe and Asia. We offer our services as tools for building inclusivity in the arts and cultural sector, and for supporting organisational and regional change; our training sessions and resources range across a number of areas, including disability confidence, working with equality legislation and the social model of disability,
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Training workshop in Azerbaijan. Photo by British Council
unconscious bias, accessible marketing, event management and more. This year, we provided training and access services to over 20 UK cultural organisations, much of the work delivered in partnership with Goss Consultancy Ltd, including Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Royal Opera House, Bush Theatre, Clore Leadership Programme and Hepworth Wakefield. Our training equipped over 200 arts and cultural sector workers with the skills and confidence required for accessible recruitment, positive employment of disabled people, and a marked improvement in terms of accessibility for audiences.
Shape trainer Barbara Lisicki in Azerbaijan, 2018. Photo by British Council
International Work As well as working across the UK arts and cultural sector, Shape’s international profile continues to grow through our access consultancy and training services with overseas partners, with Shape working closely with the British Council to deliver training in Japan and the Caucasus. In September 2017, Shape trainers travelled to Baku, Azerbaijan and Tbilisi, Georgia to deliver Disability Equality training and lead access audits across a range of arts and cultural venues. This was Shape’s first time visiting the Caucasus, and it was a pleasure to develop this new partnership with their local British Council team. December saw another visit to Japan, where our trainers delivered sessions for managers, staff and practitioners who work for arts institutions in Kanagawa Prefecture, as well as Disability Equality and Inclusive Practice training for Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre. This builds upon the healthy relationship Shape holds with the British Council in Japan and extensive training delivered by Shape in preparation for Tokyo’s 2020 Cultural Olympiad. In February 2018, some of the Shape team went to Kiev, Ukraine to present at a British
Council conference that took place over two days. Referencing training and access audits that we completed in Azerbaijan and Georgia, we spoke to artists, managers, producers, heads of culture institutions, journalists, choreographers, directors, and decision makers in central and local governments about why access is so vital for disabled people. Topics covered at the conference included: What is inclusive art? Are culture and the arts accessible to disabled people? Can disability change the way art is created, looked at and responded to? How have new aesthetics emerged in contemporary artistic practices? Extending our artistic reach internationally, we supported Venice Agendas, a programme of events including an exhibition, a publication, talks and performances in London, Venice, Margate and Folkestone, led by artist Terry Smith. The project brought together artists and professionals to share and discuss the meaning of a contract, their experiences of relationships governed or suggested by contracts and what might be anticipated or expected in the context of contemporary visual arts and current world events, including the UK Brexit decision. 23
Balance Sheet
2018 (ÂŁ)**
2017 (ÂŁ)
14,962
11,590
272,398
188,678
300,066
675,789
572,464
864,467
Creditors: Amounts Due Within One Year
(306,425)
(477,983)
Net Current Assets
266,039
386,484
Total Assets Less Current Liabilities
281,001
398,074
Net Assets
281,001
398,074
164,952
230,910
Designated Funds General Funds
19,421 96,628
20,429 146,735
Total Funds
281,001
398,074
Fixed Assets Tangible Fixed Assets
Current Assets Debtors Stock Cash at Bank and in Hand
Represented by Funds Restricted Funds Capital Funds Income Funds
Unrestricted Funds
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** 2018 figures subject to final audit
Statement of Financial Activities
2018** (ÂŁ)
2017 (ÂŁ)
297,199
34,633
7,962 213
833
Incoming Resources From Generated Funds Income from Donations and Legacies Activities for Generating Funds Investment Income
From Charitable Activities Arts and Partnerships Audiences Employment and Leadership
1,279,518 40,168
1,350,874 273,049 63,819
Total Incoming Resources
1,625,060
1,993,208
9,917
7,522
Arts and Partnerships Audiences Employment and Leadership
1,656,708 75,508
1,552,658 294,752 118,363
Total Resources Expended
1,742,133
1,973,295
Net Incoming/(Outgoing) Resources for the Year Before Transfers Funds at Beginning of Year
(117,073)
19,913
398,074
378,161
Funds at End of Year
281,001
398,074
Resources Expended Costs of Generating Voluntary and Charitable Funds
Charitable Activities
** 2018 figures subject to final audit
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Sources of Income** 2017-18 ÂŁ
%
Revenue and Statutory Funders
1,200,708
73.9
Charitable Trusts, Lottery, Individuals and Events
344,045
21.2
Earned and Other Income
80,307
4.9
Total
1,625,060
100
21.2%
Charitable Trusts, Lottery, Individuals Events
73.9%
Revenue and Statutory funders
Expenditure Profile** 2017-18 ÂŁ
%
Generating Funds
9,917
0.6
Arts and Partnerships
1,656,708
95.1
Audiences
75,508
4.3
1,742,133
100
Charitable
Employment and Leadership Total
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Shape is grateful for the support of all our funders and donors
Whilst we are unable to acknowledge everyone here, we would like to thank the above funders in particular, who provided us with significant grants and support. We extend our immense gratitude to our Patron Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA) for his generous support.
We would also like to extend special thanks to Gallery at 12 in Staffordshire for their ongoing fundraisers in support of Shape, to Cass Art for their generosity in donating materials for use in our artistic activities, and to Barefoot Wine for supporting our events with drinks sponsorship.
“Without Shape, I would not have been able to realise many of my ambitions as an artist.� Jason Wilsher-Mills
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Proud lead partners on: The National Disability Arts Collection & Archive (NDACA) A ÂŁ1 million digital archive chronicling the history of disability arts in the UK, available to the public at www.the-ndaca.org. NDACA, a Heritage Lottery Fund project delivered by Shape Arts, chronicles the unique history of the UK Disability Arts Movement in which a group of disabled people and their allies broke down barriers, helped change the law and made great art and culture while doing so.
Unlimited An arts commissioning programme offering talented disabled artists funds and mentoring support to develop, produce and show ambitious work. Delivered in partnership by Shape Arts and arts-producing organisation Artsadmin, Unlimited aims to embed work by disabled artists within the UK and international cultural sectors, reach new audiences and shift perceptions of disabled people.
We are grateful to Heritage Lottery Fund for their extensive investment and support for NDACA, as well as our other main funders, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Arts Council England.
We are grateful to Arts Council England for their extensive investment and support for Unlimited, as well as our other main funders, British Council, Arts Council of Wales, and Spirit of 2012.
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