Bookmarked Thirsk - Artist in Residence at Thirsk Community Library, Rural Arts

Thirsk Community Library are celebrating their 10 year anniversary on the 1st of April 2027. To coincide with the Anniversary and with the Bookmarked Project and its Art Trail objectives, they would like to combine both of these events by working with an experienced Mural Artist.

Thirsk Community Library would like the Mural Artist to:
Work with 6 different steering groups to get a wide range of input from, with the library and literature as the key themes. Questions such as ie / What is your favourite book? What do you love about the library? would be example starting points. The 6 steering groups would be organised between Thirsk Community
Library and Rural Arts.
To create the design for the murals with the 6 steering groups
To create a mural inside the library, up the stairs
To digitalise artwork and to install vinyls on the top 3rd of the windows at the front of the library, taking into consideration the visuals and words from the steering groups.

Once this work is created we would like the Artist to:
Collaborate with the other 4 Artists in Residences who will have worked at The Ritz, Rural Arts, White Rose Book Cafe and the James Herriot Museum, to create an Art Trail for the final event weekend of Bookmarked in April 2027, combining all learnings from the different residencies. This will take into account the thoughts and ideas from the various Steering Groups that have accessed these residencies and bring it to life to the rest of the Community at the Art Trail.

15 freelance days @£200 per day
3 days of development and prep
6 days of delivery - onsite and hybrid
6 days of making
Total fee: £3,000