BOSarts is a visual arts initiative with its roots firmly based in the West Penwith Moor, an area layered with ecological, archaeological and anthropological richness, straddling the coast path under the shadow of Carn Galva.
The focus of BOSarts is on the production and presentation of socially engaged and collaborative work that is deeply embedded within the local context.
The curatorial stance is on work that is concerned with issues of context, people & spaces. It is interested in exploring an approach that is research-led and works across disciplines and different ways of knowing, that is multiple layered and has multi points of entry. "One of the key tenets of BOSarts is to establish active and intimate, as well as sustainable, creative relationships with individuals and other structures and organisations" (Benjamin Chandler, artists and participant in recent BOSarts seminar).
BOSarts is keen to develop new opportunities for artists in Cornwall, and is committed to developing a programme of interaction and dialogue to support this work, building on the success of the 1st seminar in Sept 08 'The Artist as coultural agent: DIY (people, places and spaces)'.
BOSarts is a collaboration that works across the visual arts and heritage/environmental sectors, with active involvement from both The National Trust and Newlyn Art Gallery.
From very recent beginnings, BOSarts has very quickly gained a regional and national profile, having worked with a number of artists from across the UK and being featured in the November edition of a-n. |
