Becontree July Residency at Alderman Jones’ House
ENTIRE HOUSE & GARDEN, BECONTREE ESTATE
Sunday 8th August – Monday 30th August 2021
3 bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, living room, generous garden
Hypha Studios & Becontree Forever are looking for a creative practitioner to live in & make use of this house to develop their practice, explore new ideas or create new projects.
The space is provided for free* along with an artist fee & small grant towards your public event or community engagement.
You are welcome to bring family members with you on your residency & to treat the house as your home for the duration. You may wish to use one of the bedrooms as a studio, or create work within and around the whole building or garden.
Full information & application form at
www.hyphastudios.com
deadline: Wednesday 28th July 6pm
*we provide the space for free but you have to put down a deposit which you get back when you leave the property on time and in good condition
We welcome your inventiveness in your use of the space & how it can support you develop your practice.
Perhaps you want to make a part studio / part gallery, or develop horticulture-related work in the garden, maybe you want to turn a room into a collaborative workshop, develop a theatrical performance or a photo studio.
You may want to make work about the entire estate, or just a tiny physical detail of the house’s fabric, 100 years of Becontree & the archive, or a project related to the domestic.
All we ask is that you consider the following:
- A site-responsive proposal though we encourage a broad interpretation of what “site” is to you & could include the architecture, social history, garden, archives or more
- Community involvement which can be from any local community you identify & can be involved in your research, development, or public event
- Your public event proposal as a critical element of your application, please give creative consideration to this, who it will be for, & how it weaves with your creative practice
The Becontree Estate, in the borough of Barking & Dagengham, was the largest public housing estate in the world when constructed beween 1921 & 1935. In total, it has over 26,000 homes within a ‘garden city’ model.
Your work on this residency could consider the radical roots of the estate, seek to be part of the dialogue with existing communities, or help inform its future story.
Becontree Forever
Becontree Forever is a year-long programme of art, architecture & new infrastructure to mark 100 years of the Becontree Estate.
It is led by the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, in collaboration with residents and local partners such as the schools on the estate, Arc Theatre, Barking & Dagenham Youth Dance, East End Women’s Museum, Girls Like Us, Green Shoes Arts, Love Music Hate Racism, Studio 3 Arts, Soul and Sound & The White House, with national partners such as Create London, EFG London Jazz Festival, Focal Point Gallery, Serpentine Galleries & the Wellcome Trust.
Visit www.hyphastudios.com for residency info, and www.becontreeforever.uk for more about the estate.