Artichoke’s Head of Trusts & Foundations Emily Turner has worked at Artichoke since 2017.

We asked Emily to give us her top tips on where to find grant opportunities, how to apply and the important do’s and don’ts.

Read the full article here: www.artichoke.uk.com/top-tips-for-writing-your-funding-application

For more information and to apply, visit: https://www.artichoke.uk.com/executive-assistant/

The Drop (2023), a beacon of light and sound by internationally renowned, UK lighting designer Phil Supple for L:umiere 2023. Beams, patterns and lights, choreographed to a lively musical score composed by collaborator and sound artist Toby Park, illuminated the full height of the Auckland Tower in Bishop Auckland.

HERD is a musical and sculptural odyssey of epic proportions devised by Orlando Gough, bringing together community of makers, hundreds of local schoolchildren and many hundreds more members of music groups and soloists. Created with their own unique character, the 23 larger-than-life sheep are popping up across the district of Kirklees ths week, singing original compositions created especially for this project.

Learn all about the technical process behind HERD’s evocative soundscapes in this interview with expert sound designers, Sebastian Frost and John Del’Nero.

60-40 by Michael Roche (vocals)

Explanations avoid confrontations by The First ones (Doug James – Guitar + Lead vocals, Dan James – Bass + Backing vocals, Will Wright – Drums + Backing vocals)

Get on your knees by Sam Butterfield (Guitar and vocals)

High School by Mason White (vocals)

Yet by Mason White (vocals)

I Won’t Let Her Go by Slutty Mary (Michael and Charlotte)

Parallel Universe by The First ones (Doug James – Guitar + Lead vocals, Dan James – Bass + Backing vocals, Will Wright – Drums + Backing vocals)

Imaginary Death by Tillie-Mai Hawker

The Future is the Future by East Bierly Primary School (Year 5 & Debo/Donovan Brown)

Into the Future Just Take a Look by Robbertown Primary School (Year 5 & Debo/Donovan Brown)

With thanks to all the young people who submitted songs to be included in Jiggit’s soundscape, Yorkshire Youth & Music and Vibration Studios

With only one day until #HERD2023 launches as part of Kirklees Year of Music, we spoke to Huddersfield-based artist Dave Young, the creator of the 23 musical sheep sculptures that will soon appear in surprising places across the beautiful Kirklees countryside and towns…

In conversation with Tony Heaton by artichoketrust

Artichoke: Finance Assistant Audio Job Pack

Audio recording of the BRILLIANT 2023 information pack.

BRILLIANT is a national commissioning scheme aimed at encouraging anyone living in the UK (aged 18+) to suggest their brightest idea for an artwork using the medium of light to be produced and exhibited at Lumiere 2023.

Supported by EMG Solicitors

A Telling of Light is a special new commission to memorialise and commemorate the huge number of lives lost to Covid in the UK during the course of the pandemic, the work will reflect and recognise the magnitude of this loss and specifically the loss of breath.