Model / Set Designer Commission for Community Project, MarketPlace Arts

Set Designer for CentreStage, a community project in Wisbech

Timeline: May - October 2025
Design Fee: £1658 (1/3 ITC Design Fee for full stage design + 1 week of making time)
Travel & Accommodation: £530
Materials Budget: £800

Deadline for applications: 27th April 2025 (midnight)

We are looking for a set designer or model designer for a collaborative community project to design and direct the build of a "set" model, that is inspired by, and reimagines, the Market Place of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. As part of the CentreStage project, creatively directed by https://electricegg.co.uk/ - Electric Egg, the chosen designer will respond to the town and design a set in which to house micro portraits of approx 100 people. The portrait prints will be provided and be required to be cut and mounted.

The build of the model will be in collaboration with members of the community from https://sheddersandfixers.org/ - Shedders and Fixers (Wisbech Men's Shed), these "community set builders" will be a group of people with practical skills and equipment to realise the design as directed by the designer. The role requires the designer to engage with the lead artists Electric Egg and commissioners MarketPlace Arts to finalise the brief and specification of the model. The set designer will be responsible for the design and realisation of the model to that specification.

The resultant model, when populated with the portraits, will be on display from October 2025 in Wisbech & Fenland Museum. It should be designed to be touched and interacted with as we wish to concourse audiences to rearrange the people within the scene to create their own portrait of Wisbech.

An abstracted and creative response to Wisbech Market Place is essential - whilst it should evoke the town it should not be a mere recreation of the town as it is now or was in the past.