Bronte Brief

Visions of Angria

Consider the role of illustration/graphic art within a gallery context
Your work needs to engage an audience with Branwell's writing and encourage visitors to investigate the rest of the exhibition. How is this done?
Provide new perspectives of the original content through image making and visual communication approaches. Consider the appropriateness of your working methods.

Brief

Plan and write a proposal for a piece of illustration in response to Branwell Brote's writing for an upcoming exhibition at the Audrey Burton Gallery. Once selected, research, develop, refine and deliver your final work to a professional standard by the end of AVC. As always, we expect you to be as ambitions and inventive as possible.

Tailor your proposed approach to the piece keeping in mind your own specific visual process, tone of voice & preferred working media. Your proposal should be written but potentially could include working drawings/contextual references these will be reviewed and selected by the curator of teh exhibition Your pitch needs to sell your proposal to the curator, make sure you're proposal clearly explains the potential of your ideas and your visual approach.

Pitch submission is Monday 8th October. Submit roughs/example images along with a written proposal (300 words max) as a pdf.

Although there is limited wall space, we are keen for you to consider the format, size and production method of your artwork in the pitch. Would large scale be more suitable or something tiny and minute?

It is also worth considering the brief as an opportunity to engage with a wider public network. There may be the opportunity to sell your work.

Content

Produce an illustrative interpretation of a set piece of text: Visions of Angria. What you choose to illustrate or respond to is up to you, though you may want to consider the following: Characters- the period- the environments described- atmosphere/tensions- structure and patterns in the language.