The Ropewalk arts centre in Barton upon Humber is set to employ a Marketing Officer for the first time in its 15 year old history thanks to a grant from the Creative Employment Programme.
The £2,570 grant awarded by the Programme will part-fund a six month long internship which will see the successful candidate market the Maltkiln Road venue using a variety of media.
“The successful candidate will be working on different assignments and projects during their time with us as well as expanding our presence on social media, looking at audience development and be a part of the planning team for events held here,” said The Ropewalk’s Managing Director Liz Bennet.
“This internship will allow the successful candidate to make contributions to our projects and at the same time allow them to develop their professional ability and business skills,” she went on.
“The Ropewalk team work very closely with a full staff team meeting every week as well as monthly creative meetings and the intern will be at the heart of this team helping plan for all events as well as marketing,” Liz continued.
“The intern would be tasked with compiling mail outs both physical and by email and devising data collection sheets to collect visitor’s details.”
“Initially the job will entail spending time in each section of the business finding out what we do and how we currently market our services and then the intern would then move on to visiting other organisations that we have working relationships with to see what works for them allow us to look at overhauling the way we collect data and reach potential audiences.”
Liz added that last year succeeded all expectations with visitor numbers of more than 106,000 recorded at The Ropewalk, attracted to the quality exhibitions that are curated in- house and national touring shows from The Arts Council Collection as well as the high quality events held at Ropery Hall.
“We hope that with this six month internship will further increase our numbers both for new and return visitors,” Liz said.
The application is open to Job Seeker Allowance claimants only and is advertised on Universal Job Match, North Lincolnshire’s young jobseekers networks and through The Ropewalk’s website, www.the-ropewalk.co.uk
The position will is for 30 hours a week with flexible hours to cover events.
Applications opened on February 9 with a closing date of Friday, February 20. The start date is March 1.
The annual exhibition by The Ropewalk Studio artists. Featuring work by:
David Alcock
Sally Beaumont
Emily Connor
Debbie Grice
Richard Hatfield
Gill Hobson
Judith Land
Darren Langton
Tim Needham
Julie Oxenforth
Michael Scrimshaw
Shirley Trumble
Keith Woodcock
The Ropewalk’s popular Christmas Art Market will showcase the work of more than 40 makers and artists.
Taking place over the weekend of Saturday December 7 and Sunday December 8 those makers and artists selected to take part will be selling original handmade gifts, cards and artwork (more…)
Helen Martino would describe her work as being ‘sometimes serious and sometimes playful’. For many years Helen worked as a functional potter, making batches of domestic pots on a wheel. Now she sees herself as more of a maker in clay, hand building each piece individually by using soft and flexible sheets of clay. These sheets of clay are freely cut, curved and sometimes twisted, this is how Helen is able to create different perspectives and distortion within her work. The surface is painted with slip, underglaze pigment and resists. Depending on the piece silver and gold lustre may also be incorporated.
Helen is fascinated by body language and how this can be communicated. She observes Mogul and Persian miniatures and admires how they are able to tell a story within one image. These artworks often show a significant event within the life span of a person or family. Helen’s sculptures are also intimate like the miniature and show a single event that can be applied to the past, future and present, allowing the viewer to determine the story of each artwork.
Working in Cambridge, Helen exhibits widely across the UK and is the founder member of Cambridge Open Studios. She will be exhibiting in the Box Gallery in November.
Yorkshire born and bred, Eleanor Tomlinson is a traditional artist and illustrator based in East Yorkshire. Inspired by the beautiful Yorkshire countryside she has grown up amongst, Eleanor predominantly works in ink and watercolour to specialise in capturing and celebrating UK wildlife and the local countryside. Eleanor’s distinctive style using ink and watercolour, combines traditional, well-loved subjects with a contemporary, illustrative twist. Her use and composition of contrasting white space brings a narrative and sense of movement and energy to her pieces. Eleanor’s artworks have also been developed into a wide range of cards, stationery, limited edition prints and homeware collections alongside her original pieces which are being sold in an array of independent shops and galleries across the UK.
LAND, SEA AND SKY
The theme for this exhibition ‘Land, Sea, and Sky’ was chosen because its wide-ranging associations might be interpreted in many different ways, and in part because the theme was seen to have some relevance to the location of The Ropewalk Gallery. No size limit was imposed and artists were invited to respond to the theme in as wide a way as possible, to be as traditional or as innovative as they wished both in process and format. The final selection includes three dimensional and large format pieces as well as more conventional prints.
Printmakers Council was founded in 1965 by a group of prominent printmakers to raise the profile of printmaking as an art form and to provide an exhibition society for members. For over fifty years PmC has continued to pursue these aims through a rolling programme of exhibitions, lectures and practical workshops.
Two new exhibitions with links to northern Lincolnshire are opening this Saturday (Sept 14) at The Ropewalk arts centre in Barton upon Humber.
In the Artspace is Re-Tellings, a solo exhibition by Grimsby based artist Sue Stone whose work is inspired by people, place and time. (more…)
