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Selection-Panel Members

Martin Barnes: Martin joined the V&A in 1995. Since 1997 he has worked at the Photography Gallery at the V&A where he is now a Curator of Photography. Previously he worked for the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and studied at the University of Leicester and the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. His special interests include architecture and 19th-century and contemporary fine-art photography. He has curated and advised on numerous photographic exhibitions.

Gilane Tawadros: Gilane is a curator and writer. She was the founding Director of inIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts), a contemporary visual arts organisation in London. Responsible for its overall artistic direction, she established inIVA as a leading global visual arts agency and led a major capital development programme, co-commissioning and project managing (with Autograph) an innovative new permanent building for the organisation at Rivington Place, designed by Adjaye Associates. She has curated numerous exhibitions, most recently: Veil (New Art Gallery, Walsall; Bluecoat Art Gallery & Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, Modern Art, Oxford, 2003 and Kulturehuset, Stockholm, 2004). Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes, 50th Venice Biennale (2003), Zarina Bhimji (inIVA, 2004); Sutapa Biswas,(2004); David Adjaye (inIVA, 2004), The Real Me (ICA, 2005). She is a board member of Photoworks.

Lynda Morris: Lynda Morris is curator of the Norwich Gallery, where she has curated numerous exhibitions, and since 1991, has been responsible for mounting EASTinternational at Norwich School of Art and Design, one of the major UK international open exhibitions. She has been on the Purchase Committee of Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, an Arts Council Visual Arts Projects Panel Member, and an Art critic for The Listener for 6 years. Published widely in Guardian, Modern Painters, Art Monthly etc.

Richard Denyer: (co-applicant, member of the steering group) Richard is the Art School's Business Development Manager. He has had numerous one-man and group exhibitions of photography since 1980 and published in a wide range of newspapers, magazines, books and journals on photography and writing. He is a founder member of Norwich Arts Centre and Chair of Council 1977 - 1982. He established Second Sight magazine with Arts Council in 1994, managed a Millennium Festival project, Optical Allusions, 2000, and curated A Period Eye: Photography Then and Now, at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, 2003/4. He contributed to and edited the two volume catalogue. Established an MA in Photographic Studies at NUCA in 2003 – Course Leader up to 2006.

Keith Roberts: Photo-ID curator. A professional cell biologist who recently retired as Deputy Director of the John Innes Centre, Norwich. He published more than 150 papers in refereed journals, and is also a co-author of the major textbooks, Molecular Biology of the Cell, now in its 5th edition (2007), and Essential Cell Biology now in its 2nd edition (2004). He is founder and Chairman of the Teacher Scientist Network (TSN, 1994-present, now a charitable company since 2002). He conceived and curated (and wrote the book for) the Wellcome-funded Making Faces exhibition that was a central and successful part of the BA Festival of Science, 2006. He is the champion of UEA’s recent successful bid to be a Beacon of Public Engagment (BPE) and is chair of its steering group. From 2005 he has been the Vice-Chairman/Trustee of Norfolk Contemporary Art Society (NCAS).

The selection panel after their deliberations on 10th December. Left to right are Richard Denyer, Lynda Morris, Keith Roberts, Gilane Tawadros, and Martin Barnes

Norfolk Contemporary Art Society www.n-c-a-s.org.uk

Norfolk Contemporary Arts Society (NCAS) is the grant holder The Norfolk Contemporary Art Society is a voluntary association (with some two hundred and fifty members) which champions contemporary visual art, particularly that of artists working in the region. The Norfolk Contemporary Art Society is a registered Charity No. 262730

Since it was founded in the mid-fifties, to encourage the Norwich Castle Museum to acquire work in the modern idiom to balance its fine collections of the nineteenth-century Norwich School of painters, the Society has acquired its own art collection that forms the basis of holdings in post-war art in the Castle.

Among the items the NCAS has lent to the Castle are works by Edward Barker, Jeffrey Camp, David Carr, Prunella Clough, Alan Davie, Patrick George, Allen Jones, Peter Lanyon, Wyndham Lewis, F E McWilliam, Eduardo Paolozzi, Mary Potter, Anne Redpath, Alan Reynolds, Ceri Richards, Colin Self, Penny Slinger and Graham Sutherland. Among pieces that the Society has purchased and then given to the Norfolk Museums Service are works by Sandra Blow, Marc Chaimowicz, Ian Chance, Derrick Greaves, Nigel Henderson, Howard Hodgkin, John Hoyland, L.S. Lowry, Tom Phillips and Keith Vaughan.

More recently, it has raised funds, often matched nationally pound-for-pound, to purchase sculpture for public places in Norwich. These include major pieces by George Fullard and Liliane Lijn, and a mural by Walter Kershaw. For the Castle Green, we commissioned a bronze, 'Parrot head' by the late Bernard Reynolds, the aluminium 'Monument to Daedalus' by Jonathan Clarke, and Mark Goldsworthy's 'Will Kemp and his men' hewn from an oak trunk in situ in Chapelfield Gardens. Ros Newman’s ‘Bird Flight’ is its latest commission that has recently (2005) been placed in the Friend’s Garden in front of the Oncology Department of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.

In addition to commissioning, purchasing, giving and loaning art, the NCAS also puts on exhibitions. Two very successful, relatively recent shows were titled 'Borrowed from Nature', mounted at the John Innes Centre, which displayed sculpture by a wide variety of local, contemporary artists working in three dimensions. In the autumn of 2001, the NCAS mounted 'Sculpture on the Green' showing work by Dan Archer, Laurence Edwards and Peter Blunsden to accompany the refurbished Castle's first exhibition, 'Breaking the Mould : 20th century British sculpture from Tate.' In 2002, we put on a show of drawing, painting and sculpture entitled 'The Naked Truth' at the Fermoy Gallery in King's Lynn to complement the Tate show on the same theme at the Castle Museum entitled 'The Body in Twentieth Century Art'. In 2006 we donated a work by the late Alfred Cohen to Norwich Castle Museum, and in 2007 we have purchased a video for its collection, Ruth Ewan’s Rebel’s Complaint. In 2006 the NCAS mounted two major exhibitions. The first celebrated the Society's fiftieth anniversary: '50 years on: Norfolk Contemporary Art Society at Norwich Castle', and showed some 30 of the works the Society has donated to the Castle over these years. 'Making Faces' at the Forum in Norwich was a Wellcome Trust funded SciArt event timed to coincide with the British Association’s Festival of Science held in September 2006. Three artists worked alongside scientists specialising in face biology, and local artist Neal French sculpted the head of Charles Clarke MP, a process recorded in 4-D.

Raising the profile of the visual arts means effective networking, we collaborate closely with local galleries and other arts organisations such as the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Commissions East, Norfolk Museums Service, Norfolk Association of Architects, Norfolk Open Studios, Norwich Arts Round Table, East Anglia Art Foundation and the John Innes Centre.

Teacher Scientist Network (TSN) www.tsn.org.uk

The Teacher Scientist Network (TSN) is housed at the John Innes Centre and recently won the contract for organising the Young Peoples Programme for the BA Festival of Science in Norwich in 2006, regarded by the BA as the best ever held. Together with NEAD they will provide the outreach and educational component of the exhibition. Phil Smith is the Coordinator of TSN and is the active participant. Although housed through the generosity of the John Innes Centre, the TSN is totally autonomous and independent. TSN is a scheme that puts the scientific community of the Norwich Research Park into contact with the teachers of science throughout the education community in Norfolk and North Suffolk. The core activity is a network of one-to-one teacher-scientist partnerships whose main purposes are:

*To support and encourage teachers in helping them to deliver up-to-date and relevant science.
*To help counteract the ‘eccentric boffin’ stereotype of scientists.
*To encourage scientists to interact with teachers and children.

There are meetings where information and ideas are shared and exchanged and a newsletter keeps members in touch with network activity. We also offer members mini-grants to help develop classroom ideas, and for high-school teachers there are Master Classes in particular subjects, and for primary school teachers TSN Primary Science Workshops provide high-quality professional development opportunities with topic-specific training and practical ideas. For scientists there are tailored introductions and guidance to working with teachers. There are other one-off events for teachers and children, often during National Science Week, run in partnership with other organisations. We have recently developed a major Kit-Club resource at JIC that provides free curriculum-related training materials for schools to borrow. TSN was strongly involved in the establishment of the East of England Science Learning Centre in 2004 and is a regional partner. A grant of £85K from the DfES in 2005 allowed us to extend the TSN Kit-Club to three Regional Science Learning Centres.

The Teacher Scientist Network (TSN) is a company limited by guarantee with charitable status. Registered in England, No.4556366. Registered Charity No. 1096208

Norwich University College of the Arts (NUCA) www.nuca.ac.uk

Norwich University College of the Arts is an independent higher education institution within the University sector, and has full responsibility for the design and content of its courses. There has been a School of Art and Design in Norwich since 1845. NUCA has at present 1200 students registered on programmes ranging from Foundation Degrees through to Post Graduate and PhD levels. NSAD is the only specialist art and design institution in the East of England and offers both undergraduate and post-graduate courses in photograpghy. It is a partner in the bid.

George Sexton Associates: www.gsadc.com

George Sexton Associates of Washington, DC has brought an established yet innovative approach to the field of museum planning, exhibition design, and lighting design in twenty-five years in practice. We have an extensive history of involvement with complex museum and architectural projects, as exemplified by such diverse projects as the Metropolitan Museum of Art Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. George Sexton designed the original exhibitions and lighting at the Sainsbury Centre in 1978, working alongside architect Norman Foster. George Sexton Associates continues to work with the Centre today.

George Sexton Associates Europe and New York representation: Since 1989, George Sexton Associates has maintained and staffed an office in Norwich, England to handle the design requirements of the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts and to better serve projects in Europe. In 2002, the firm added representation in New York City to better serve clients and projects in the New York area.

BBC Voices: www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/voices2005

BBC Voices is the local BBC story-telling and media-training centre. It is housed within The Forum. Photo-ID will be working with them to create a live project during the exhibition, which will take advantage of Fusion. Fusion is part of a series of exciting digital and creative spaces at The Forum in Norwich, and will house the largest, free, permanent digital screen in the Eastern region.

Green Pebble: www.greenpebble.co.uk

The visual arts magazine for East Anglia. Launched in 2007 by Michael Charles, Green Pebble is our region’s biggest circulating free magazine dedicated to the visual arts crafts and items of originality made or restored by people of great skill and creativity. The magazine prides itself in its journalistic content and researches and publishes independent articles about the region's leading artists. These articles complement numerous pages on gallery exhibitions, artist's plans, auctions pages, news, book reviews, competition news and special features on specialist subjects.

Photo-ID will have a full page advert in the magazine in the next issue in April, and will follow up in the subsequent issue with another advert and also an editorial piece.