Open Call: BTB25 Commisison with The Harris Museum & Art Gallery - Courtaulds, British Textile Biennial

The Harris Museum & Art Gallery is due to re-open during Summer 2025 after an extensive renovation programme, involving the creation of beautiful new galleries and community spaces and the re- imagining and presentation of collections throughout the building. We are looking for an artist to respond to the collections with particular focus on the Courtauld Factory story and the production of Rayon in the county - of which there are extensive oral history recordings, photographs and social history records.

Working closely with the curatorial teams at both BTB and The Harris, the successful artist will be invited to create an ambitious new physical work, ideally of scale, which will inhabit a non-gallery based space within the building, providing striking visual impact, sparking conversation and fostering pride in the local community, many of whom were part of or are related to people who worked at Courtaulds.