Submit a design for our Wires Crossed Visual Art Community Project
Galway Community Circus is looking for submissions for a collaborative community art project.
As we draw near to the official opening of the Irish Centre of Funambulism, we are eager to have a space that will offer this activity while visually reflecting the hope, balance and community solidarity that the Wires Crossed project has embodied.
The Project
There are 14 x single and 2 x groups of 3 cement kelly blocks (20 blocks in total) that are the weights that secure the walking lines for learning and practicing funambulism. These are the items that we would love to see transformed into pieces of community art.
Following one of the three themes of:
-Hope
-Solidarity
-Balance
We are looking for transferable designs, from your imagination to this community space.
Tips:
Keep it simple. Your designs need to transfer onto a cement block with corners and groves (see image below). Patterns and graphics will transfer well, but too much detail could be lost in translation.
The primary colour palette is blue, pink and yellow. There will be other colours available, but designs must include these three colours.
You can submit designs as an individual or as part of a group, and we welcome all ideas and inspirations around the project themes. The work will be curated by Galway Community Circus.
Community Day of Art
For successful submissions, we will host a fun and collaborative day of art in April where you and your work become part of Galway Community Circus’s journey!
We will brief the successful submissions prior to attendance. Galway Community Circus will provide paints, tools, lunch and facilitation by Galway Artist Fiona Hession. (We would ask you to wear old clothes in case of paint spillage!)
All activities on the day will meet the COVID-19/public health guidelines in place at the time (social distancing, working in household bubbles, providing hand sanitiser etc.)
To Submit
This project is open anyone who would like to submit a design inspired by one of the themes: balance, solidarity and hope.
Designs can be emailed to info@galwaycircus.com.
Please use ‘Art Submission’ in the subject line of the email.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSE ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31ST AT 5PM.
You will find the template for design here or you can simply draw your own. We are really excited to see what you come up with!
About Wires Crossed
Wires Crossed is an international community-based project that promotes physical and mental wellbeing, safe risk-taking and social inclusion through the art of funambulism – wire walking using a balancing pole.
Funambulism is at once a spectacular circus art yet surprisingly accessible to people of all ages and abilities. It is also a powerful mindfulness tool that promotes mental and physical wellbeing; walking on a wire conveys a sense of ease and simplicity, yet it requires focus, self-belief, and courage.
Wires Crossed emerged from the desire to help address the hidden mental health crisis affecting people from across the world today and restore balance within our communities. In a world of chaos and uncertainty, funambulism gives us all an opportunity to trust in ourselves and face our fears with grace, awareness, and strength.
Through Wires Crossed, thousands of people across Europe are learning the dynamic art of funambulism. In 2022 we will bring people together to take part in a crossing of the River Corrib and Claddagh Basin to highlight the importance of positive mental health within our communities with a public display of hope, solidarity, and strength.