Magna Carta art competition launched

The University of Lincoln has been awarded a grant from the Magna Carta Trust’s 800^th Anniversary Commemoration Committee to create a work of outdoor art for our campus. This can be freestanding or designed as part of an existing building.  The work of art can be created or constructed from any material – the budget for construction is £5,000.

As part of the Magna Carta celebrations, the poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, who is also a Visiting Artist at the University, crafted a poem to celebrate the 800^th anniversary. That poem is to be the inspiration for your work of art and a copy is available on our website.

Dame Carol Ann Duffy will be one of the judges for the competition.

The closing date for the competition is 30 December 2015.

For full competition details and the poem, please visit http://magnacarta.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/

Carol Ann Duffy, UK Poet Laureate, Gillian Clarke, The National Poet of Wales and Imtiaz Dharker, Holder of the Queen’s Award for Poetry were commissioned by cultural solutions UK and Lincolnshire County Council to write a poetic response to the 800th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta. The project, known as ‘Poets Laureate Lincolnshire Landscape’ saw the work shared with community groups across Lincolnshire who reflected upon the poems, before using them as inspiration to create their own artistic response.

Funded by Arts Council England and Lincolnshire County Council.

www.festival800.co.uk