APPEL A PROJETS MONUMENT TAP - FRAC Basse-Normandie

• To contribute in this way to reducing the inequalities of access to art and culture.
SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR VISUAL ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, NORWICH
Two sites will be used in Norwich for the MONUMENT project, one of them with a direct relationship to
the First World War. In the very centre of the city, the City Hall stands just above the market-place
(which is the oldest continuing market in England). Below City Hall and built in 1938, as part of the
same scheme, the memorial gardens sit between the City Hall and the market, originally intended as an
'oasis of peace'. At the heart of the gardens is a memorial to the 1914-18 war by Sir Edwin Lutyens . A
cavernous concrete space directly beneath the memorial – known as the Undercroft - has recently been
used as storage for the adjacent market stalls but is now being used for contemporary art installations
which are in broad sympathy with its original purpose. That legacy, plus its challenging and somewhat
industrial aesthetic together with immediate access to a diverse city-centre population, are the particular
opportunities offered by this site.
Work will be selected for this space to be shown in the summer of 2014 concurrently with the
MONUMENT exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. This is a gallery and centre for teaching
and research on the campus of the University of East Anglia, 2 miles from Norwich city centre, in
Norfolk, East Anglia. The Centre is housed in a purpose-built, grade II listed building designed by
Norman Foster in 1978 and subject to further expansion and refurbishment by the architect – most
recently with the redesign of the temporary exhibition spaces in 2013. Core to the activities of the
Centre is the World Art collection of Sir Robert and Lisa Sainsbury which spans some 5,000 years,
including work from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Pacific and renowned for its holdings of
works by 20 th century artists such as Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon.
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
Norfolk
UK
www.scva.ac.uk
Contact : Veronica Sekules, Deputy Director (programme)