A sister website to Your Paintings which will catalogue sculpture has secured start-up support from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
The Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) has won £2.84m to develop the site, Your Sculpture, subject to the PCF successfully developing the project plans. As well as pieces on display in museums and galleries, the PCF will record the significant proportion of works that are in storage. It will also feature public monuments that are not fully recorded, many of which may be at risk.
Initial estimates suggest around 85,000 objects from collections and 15,000 outdoor sculptures will appear online. The project is expected to start in 2016 and take four years to complete.
Your Sculpture will form part of a wider national website, provisionally called Your Art, which will be built by the PCF in collaboration with the BBC and 3,000 art collections across the UK. The current Your Paintings site, featuring existing oil painting records, attracts around 300,000 users per month.
Development funding of £109,700 has been awarded by HLF. This, together with £5,000 from the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association and £7,925 from the Henry Moore Foundation, will help the PCF progress towards the full earmarked HLF grant of £2.84m near the end of 2015.
During the development period, starting in January 2015, the PCF will also raise matched commitments from a variety of funders.
The PCF says the digitisation project will be of considerable value to collections in creating a high-quality online illustrated record of their works. Other benefits will include free high-resolution photographs, access to copyright information, an increase in trained handling support and access to the PCF’s Art Detective network. The project will also record the condition of sculptures and monuments at risk.
An outreach programme following on from the PCF’s Masterpieces in Schools programme will accompany the project. The proposed Masterpieces in Schools: Sculpture, will use the same format as the original 2013 programme, which saw works by Gainsborough, Monet and Turner lent to primary and secondary schools for the day.
The project will be steered by a panel of sculpture experts, headed by PCF trustee David Ekserdjian, the professor of art history and film at Leicester University.
He said: “The PCF has proved its capacity to organise large-scale projects of this kind, as demonstrated by the triumphant success of Your Paintings. It is wonderful that sculpture will now be given the same treatment as painting, not least because sculpture is all too often seen as its poor relation.”
The Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) has won £2.84m to develop the site, Your Sculpture, subject to the PCF successfully developing the project plans. As well as pieces on display in museums and galleries, the PCF will record the significant proportion of works that are in storage. It will also feature public monuments that are not fully recorded, many of which may be at risk.
Initial estimates suggest around 85,000 objects from collections and 15,000 outdoor sculptures will appear online. The project is expected to start in 2016 and take four years to complete.
Your Sculpture will form part of a wider national website, provisionally called Your Art, which will be built by the PCF in collaboration with the BBC and 3,000 art collections across the UK. The current Your Paintings site, featuring existing oil painting records, attracts around 300,000 users per month.
Development funding of £109,700 has been awarded by HLF. This, together with £5,000 from the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association and £7,925 from the Henry Moore Foundation, will help the PCF progress towards the full earmarked HLF grant of £2.84m near the end of 2015.
During the development period, starting in January 2015, the PCF will also raise matched commitments from a variety of funders.
The PCF says the digitisation project will be of considerable value to collections in creating a high-quality online illustrated record of their works. Other benefits will include free high-resolution photographs, access to copyright information, an increase in trained handling support and access to the PCF’s Art Detective network. The project will also record the condition of sculptures and monuments at risk.
An outreach programme following on from the PCF’s Masterpieces in Schools programme will accompany the project. The proposed Masterpieces in Schools: Sculpture, will use the same format as the original 2013 programme, which saw works by Gainsborough, Monet and Turner lent to primary and secondary schools for the day.
The project will be steered by a panel of sculpture experts, headed by PCF trustee David Ekserdjian, the professor of art history and film at Leicester University.
He said: “The PCF has proved its capacity to organise large-scale projects of this kind, as demonstrated by the triumphant success of Your Paintings. It is wonderful that sculpture will now be given the same treatment as painting, not least because sculpture is all too often seen as its poor relation.”
