Set designer/ model maker, MarketPlace Arts

The 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, sized between 10-15cm, they are a mixture of full length standing and top body shots and should be installed in the model as dynamic moveable pieces.

The build of the model will be in collaboration with members of a community group that have the practical skills and equipment to realise the design as directed by the designer. The role therefore requires the designer to engage with this community group, 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.

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. It should therefore be robust enough to withstand handling for 6 - 9 months and allow for accessible interaction from the public.

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, rather it should embody a celebratory, joyful and colourful approach to this contemporary reimagining that excites the public.

We wish to commission a designer with experience of creating exciting theatrical set designs and models and working collaboratively ideally with community groups.

Set Designers based in or from Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk are actively encouraged to apply as are designers with roots and origins in Eastern European communities.