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Several million people saw and over 58,000 people visited Ryoji Ikeda’s spectra, as the light beamed thousands of metres into the

sky marking the start of the First World War.

Produced and presented by Artangel, co-commissioned with The Mayor of London (photo: Will Eckersley).

14-18 NOW: the First World War Centenary Art Commissions / 1

VIKKI HEYWOOD, CBE LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN, 14-18 NOW

14-18 NOW is a major cultural programme taking place across the United

Kingdom to mark the centenary of the First World War. Working across

all art forms, 14-18 NOW is commissioning new works of art that will

reverberate for the next 100 years and inspire communities who may not

feel that heritage or the arts is for them.

We’ve been humbled and delighted by people’s response to 14-18 NOW’s

programme so far. In the summer of 2014 I walked among the Giants in

Liverpool with a million others, I was one of 21,439 who wrote a letter to

the statue of the Unknown Soldier and alongside 16.7 million people I

turned off my lights to mark the centenary of the beginning of War.

‘We need your help to create artworks that will be remembered 100 years from now’

The potential of this programme and people’s appetite to connect with

their heritage through art is enormous, but without your support it will

not be realised.

The Centenary gives us an unrepeatable opportunity to bring millions

more people together in relection on our shared past, present and future.

Support 14-18 NOW and together we can seize that opportunity.

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BE PART OF A HISTORIC COMMEMORATION‘When we embarked on creating a First World War centenary cultural programme, we could not have imagined the extraordinary way the artists’ projects would capture the public imagination.

Join us by supporting this unique programme to ensure future generations remember the role the First World War played in shaping the world we live in today’Jenny Waldman, Director 14-18 NOW


Anya Gallaccio, Untitled Landscape 2014, SNAP Art at Aldeburgh Festival (photo: Owain Thomas). Balletboyz, Young Men,

co-commissioned with Sadlers Wells. Steve Bell, 1914 Day by Day Cartoons, co-commissioned with the Cartoon Museum and

BBC Radio 4. Billy Bragg, The Opening Act at the Leftield Stage, Glastonbury.


Selected 14-18 NOW co-commissions (left to right); Neil Bartlett and Kate Pullinger, LETTER TO AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER, (photo: Dom Agius);

Richard Wentworth, If history could be folded, where would you put the crease? ; National Theatre Wales, Mametz (photo: Mark Douet);

Royal De Luxe, Memories of August 1914, Liverpool; Balletboyz, Young Men, (photo: Mike Prior).

So far over 19 million people have experienced a 14-18 NOW commission

Over 2 million young people aged 16-24


78 new artworks in 77 locations across

the UK

200 partners including

83 cultural and heritage organisations


A SHARED EXPERIENCE

14-18 NOW is bringing together people from every community across the United Kingdom to reflect on the First World War

One million people watched Royal De Luxe’s Memories of August 1914 tell the story of the Liverpool Pals Battalions who volunteered

to ight. Co-commissioned with Liverpool Council (photo: Liverpool City Council).

‘It brings everyone together. Generations, families, community, everybody’

Memories of August 1914, audience member

To mark the centenary of the beginning of the War, 14-18 NOW commissioned ive artists. Top left clockwise: Bedwyr Williams (Bangor),

Bob and Roberta Smith (Belfast), (not pictured) Ryoji Ikeda (London) and Jeremy Deller (LIGHTS OUT app), Nalini Malani (Edinburgh) in each

of the UK’s nations to mark the moment.


19 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE ATTENDED OR PARTICIPATED IN 14-18 NOW PROJECTS

In the summer of 2014, millions of people took up the invitation to relect

together upon the outbreak of a war that shaped the world we live in today.

On 4th August, 16.7 million people and 1,000 public buildings took part in

LIGHTS OUT, marking the centenary of the beginning of war.

Participation encompassed the spectrum of cultural life, from a plot line in The Archers, to the front page of The Sun.

14-18 NOW’s participative projects show that people want to take part in the

shared experience of commemoration and prove the huge appetite for arts

and heritage events in the UK.

BRINGING LOCAL COMMUNITIES TOGETHER

Our 2014 projects engaged over 1,200 volunteers from disadvantaged

young men in Derry-Londonderry, to older people in Edinburgh.

In Cornwall, a one-day theatrical event was formed from workshops with local

people, drawing on memories passed down through the generations.

‘We’re still struggling to get two of our gardeners out of character… it brought us an amazing sense of achievement’Lost Gardens of Heligan, 100: The Day our World Changed


INVOLVING YOUNG PEOPLE

14-18 NOW is involving young people and new audiences in a meaningful relection on their First World War heritage

Letter writers at Womad Festival as part of Neil Bartlett and Kate Pullinger, LETTER TO AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER.

Our LIGHTS OUT project provided a new way of connecting with the centenary of the beginning of War. LIGHTS OUT was inspired

by the statement made by Sir Edward Grey on the eve of WW1: ‘The lights are going out all over Europe. We will not see them lit again

in our lifetimes’ (photo: Will Eckersley).

21,439 PEOPLE WROTE TO THE STATUE OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER INCLUDING 15,000 CHILDREN UNDER 16 YEARS OLD


INVOLVING YOUNG PEOPLE Contemporary art in all its forms has an enormous

capacity to engage people of all ages in commemorating

the First World War.

Few arts-led projects can match the levels of participation

achieved by 14-18 NOW and 1.4 million people aged 16-24

participated in LIGHTS OUT. Our projects are giving everyone

an opportunity to take an active role in their shared heritage,

the arts and public life.

‘A modern way of bringing everyone together to commemorate the First World War’ LIGHTS OUT participant

We want as many people as possible to take part in this

unprecedented cultural programme of commemoration.

In 2016, our large scale programme in Northern English

Cities will provide creative skills training for 70,000 people

and a major participative projects, will bring thousands of

individuals together in a spectacular commemoration of

the Battle of the Somme.

Learning and engagement programmes, as well as digital and

gaming projects will ensure that as many people as possible

are able to get involved and commemorate their shared First

World War heritage.


COMMISSIONING WORLD CLASS ARTISTS

Support 14-18 NOW and get an unparalleled insight into artistic practice and work

Ryoji Ikeda’s spectra soared above London to mark 100 years since beginning of the First World War. A twenty-metre grid containing

forty-nine searchlights, installed at Victoria Tower Gardens, it appeared unannounced in the sky at dusk on Monday 4th August 2014

and for seven nights was visible across the city between sunset and sunrise.

Produced and presented by Artangel, co-commissioned with The Mayor of London (photo Jonathan Perugia).

‘Not in our lifetime are we going to see this type of remembrance for the First World War again’Spectra, audience member

Tobias Rehberger’s Dazzle Ship London moored at Victoria Embankment (photo: Chris Wainwright). Supported by Bloomberg

Philanthropies, the Goethe-Institut London and Schroder Charity Trust. ‘Dazzle’, developed by British artists such as Norman

Wilkinson is a style of ship camoulage used widely in the First World War, characterised by brilliant, glaring geometric patterns.

5 MILLION PEOPLE SAW DAZZLE SHIP LONDON


GREAT ARTISTS INSPIRE

In 2014, 14-18 NOW brought the work of artists including Richard

Wentworth, Jeremy Deller, Bedwyr Williams, Graham Fagen and

Ryoji Ikeda to millions of people around the country.

The former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion was among those to

write to the Unknown Soldier. Colm Tóibín, Jeanette Winterson

and Noviolet Bulawayo contributed their relections to Lavinia

Greenlaw’s 1914: Goodbye to All That.

Our project ‘Dazzle Ships’ has seen Tobias Rehberger, Carlos

Cruz-Diez and Sir Peter Blake create stunning ‘dazzle’ designs for

ships in London and Liverpool and more great artists will continue

to create Dazzle ships throughout the centenary.

‘A timely reminder of the role of art and design in the war efort and how the work of artists saved lives’Dazzle Ships Artistic Assessor

14-18 NOW is providing artists and arts and heritage organisations

with the opportunity to realise ambitious, public-facing projects.

We are proud to be able to bring diverse works of art to people

across the United Kingdom, to create a shared experience and

deeper understanding of the First World War.

140 ARTISTS FROM 25 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES TOOK PART IN 2014


CREATING A LEGACY

14-18 NOW is creating a body of work that will reverberate for the next 100 years

‘Weeping Window’ from the installation ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ – poppies and original concept created by artist

Paul Cummins and installation designed by Tom Piper – by Paul Cummins Ceramics Limited in conjunction with Historic Royal Palaces

originally at HM Tower of London 2014. (Photo: Richard Lea-Hair).

Supported by The Backstage Trust and Clore Dufield Foundation 14-18 NOW will take these installations around the UK before they are

presented at the Imperial War Museums in 2018.

Carlos Cruz-Diez, Induction Chromatique à Double Fréquence pour l’Edmund Gardner Ship co-commissioned with

Liverpool Biennial was the irst time that next-door neighbours Tate Liverpool and the Mersey Maritime Museum had worked

together, a partnership made possible by 14-18 NOW.


AN UNPARALELLED GLIMPSE OF CONTEMPORARY ATTITUDES TO WAR

There may never be another opportunity to relect upon the

First World War on this scale. Many 14-18 NOW commissions

will physically remain, such as the 21,439 Letters to the Statue

of the Unknown Soldier at the British Library and the Poppies

at Imperial War Museums. Performance works will enter the

repertoire and over time, along with commissioned books and

ilms, will become part of the fabric of our thoughts about the

First World War.

‘It provided an exciting opportunity to build on our knowledge to deliver something at a much more ambitious scale’ 14-18 NOW partner organisation

14-18 NOW is the irst programme of new arts commissions

to mark a solemn national moment and we are creating

new, innovative partnerships to help make arts and heritage

organisations more sustainable. The independent evaluation

of the programme shows people’s appetite for engaging in

heritage through art.

But perhaps the greatest legacy of the programme and those

that support it will be held by the people across the UK who

experience this unique commemoration, and that the many

stories of the period are not forgotten.

470 members of the local community participated in the creation of 100: The Day Our World Changed, co-commissioned with

Lost Gardens of Heligan in collaboration with Wildworks, attended by 5,000 people (photo: Ian Kingsnorth).


JOIN 14-18 NOW IN A COMMEMORATION THAT WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN With your help, 14-18 NOW can continue to commission

ambitious new works of art that capture the imaginations of

people across the UK.

Our irst series of commissions in 2014 demonstrated the

extraordinary interest of people of all ages to learn more about

the First World War.

Future commissions will not be possible without the

support of individuals and organisations that share our vision

of a wide-reaching programme that meets the public demand

for new ways to commemorate their heritage now and for

future generations.

There are a number of ways to support 14-18 NOW as a

whole, as well as speciic artists, projects or aspects of the

programme including projects focused on young people or

local communities.

To ind out more about our plans and explore the different

ways that you or your organisation can be part of this

historic programme, please contact the 14-18 NOW

Development Team by phone on 0207 091 3110 or email

to [email protected]


PARTNERS


FUNDERS TEAM & BOARD

Supported by

Principal Funders

Project Supporters

Team

Jenny Waldman

Director

Nigel Hinds

Executive Producer

Katie Cross

Head of Development

Alice Boff

Development Manager

Sarah Goodfellow

Producer

Pak Ling Wan

General Manager

Majeeda Goodall

Executive Assistant

Development Advisory Group

Jeremy Bennett

Lord Black of Brentwood

Clive Jones, CBE

Gailen Krug

Rhoda Macdonald

David Potter

Christophe Rust

General Sir Richard Shirreff, KCB, CBE

Jean-Michel Steg

Sir Richard Trainor, KCB

Board

Vikki Heywood, CBE

Chairman

Ade Adepitan, MBE

Alex Beard, CBE

Bonnie Greer, OBE

Lord Hall of Birkenhead, CBE

Diane Lees, CBE

Rhoda Macdonald

John Mathers

Sir Anthony Seldon

Jenny Waldman

Jonathan Watkins

Artistic Advisors

Lavinia Greenlaw

Ruth Mackenzie, CBE

Michael Morris, MBE

Tessa Ross, CBE

Cian Smyth

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