Application for Artist in Residence at the William Morris Gallery 2017

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Answer all the questions as fully as you can within the word limit.

1. Briefly describe your practice and how you meet the 5 eligibility criteria (max 200 words)

2. Please explain what aspect of Morris’s life or work, or the Gallery’s collection, you would like to explore and why? Your answer should be as specific as possible. (max 300 words)

3. Tell us what you’d like to get out of the residency and why working in the Gallery environment would enhance your practice. Please be as specific as possible about the ideas and skills you’d like to develop. (max 300 words)

4. Describe how you would engage visitors and the local community in Waltham Forest with your work. You do not need to engage everyone in Waltham Forest, explain the specific audience you have chosen to engage with and why. (max 300 words)

5. Please confirm that you would be available for 3 months in the autumn/winter of 2017

Y/N

6. Do you consider yourself to have a disability?

Y/N

7. What is your ethnic group? (Tick one only)

White Mixed

 British  White and Black Caribbean

 Irish  White and Black African

 Gypsy or Irish Traveller  White and Asian

 Other White background*  Other Mixed/multiple ethnic background*

Asian or Asian British Black or Black British

 Pakistani African

 Indian Caribbean

 Bangladeshi Other Black/African/ Caribbean background

 Chinese

 Other Asian background*

Other

 Other*

 Arab

 Prefer not to say

*What other?......

Please send this application form by email to with ‘ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 2017’ in the subject line by 10am on Monday 14th August 2017.

You must also include:

-Up to 5 images of your work as jpegs

-CV with exhibition credits

Please contact us if you require information in an alternative format or need any other assistance to submit an application:

020 8496 4390

Further Information

The William Morris Gallery Collection

The William Morris Gallery collection is uniquely placed to tell the story of the life and work of Morris and his artistic circle. It includes original designs, textiles, wallpapers, furniture, stained glass, ceramics, metalwork, books and archival materials as well as personal items, such as his coffee cup and satchel. These objects offer a comprehensive view of the varied aspects of Morris’s career – as a poet, designer, craftsman, retailer and social activist. His closest collaborators, including Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Philip Webb are also well-represented.

In addition to the Morris holdings, the Gallery owns a wide-ranging collection of Arts and Crafts material. This includes significant works by Arthur HeygateMackmurdo and the Century Guild, William De Morgan, Walter Crane, May Morris, George Jack and Christopher Whall to name but a few.

The artist Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) is also well-represented. Brangwyn served a brief apprenticeship with Morris & Co as a young man and was one of the Gallery’s major early benefactors. With the encouragement of local artist, Walter Spradbery, Brangwyn donated a wide selection of his own work, including prints, oils, furniture, ceramics and designs for interior decorative schemes. He also gifted a fine art collection of works by the Pre-Raphaelites and other 19th and early 20th century British and Continental artists.

The Gallery’s reading room and archive contain a wide range of specialist publications, rare books and manuscript material relating to William Morris, the Arts and Crafts Movement and the artist Frank Brangwyn.

Highlights from the archive include letters to family and friends, Morris & Co publicity materials, May Morris’s notes on embroidery, Arthur HeygateMackmurdo’s unpublished ‘History of the Arts and Crafts Movement’, JW Mackail’s notebooks and a wide range of material relating to the designer-craftsman George Jack.

The Gallery holds a full set of Kelmscott Press books, which can be consulted if not on display. We also hold copies of historic journals including The Studio magazine and a complete set of the Century Guild’s Hobby Horse. There is a comprehensive selection of books on Morris and a good range of more general publications on nineteenth-century decorative arts.

The Gallery’s public engagement programme provides projects, activities and events for a range of audiencesfrom the Waltham Forest community; young people, older people, BAME audiences, adults, specialists, families, people with disabilities, schools, teachers and students.

To explore the collection further please go to our website at