Shortlisted:
Art and sport? hmmm A few historical links come to mind in the 20th century..Can anyone lend me a tenner?
David Handford
When was this plane converted into an art space? Was it done by the artist, for the artist, or for some earlier unrelated event? Just interested in this…
Anonymous
Is the British art scene really that kind of homogenously white?
Anonymous
Marc Rees’ project offered the panel the best way of engaging the maximum number of people in an imaginative and original way. The real originality of what he’s proposing lies in the way the plane will house new pieces of art but will provide a home for all sorts of ideas and community participation. Welsh translation
The Wales panel is Chaired by David Alston, Arts Director at the Arts Council of Wales. The 2012 Cultural Olympiad Creative Programmer for Wales, Gwyn Williams, also sits on the panel. The other members of the panel are:
John Howes
Artist, designer and musician. Trustee with Cywaith Cymru.Artworks Wales, Chair of Sculpture Cymru and an executive member of the Friends of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. Previously he was programme director for MA Visual Arts Enterprise at the School of Art and Design in Swansea.
Roger Moss
Sculptor. He has exhibited throughout the UK, Europe and Australia over the past forty years. He was Senior Lecturer and Head of Sculpture at Carmarthenshire College of Technology and Art (1972-95), and is presently researching sculptural applications of digital technologies at the National Centre for Product Design & Development Research, U.W.I.C., Cardiff. He has been a National Adviser to ACW since 2002.
Jeremy Huw Williams
The baritone Jeremy Huw Williams studied at St John's College, Cambridge. He made his operatic debut with WNO and has since appeared in fifty roles. He was a recipient of a Creative Wales Award from ACW in 2008 and has been a National Adviser to ACW since 2002.
Simon Harris
Dramatist and theatre director, trained originally at RADA. He was Artistic Director of Thin Language Theatre (1992-97) and Artistic Director of Sgript Cymru (2000-07). He is also a Fellow on the prestigious Clore Leadership Programme and was a Creative Wales Award winner in 2009.
Sara Roberts
A Welsh independent exhibition curator, writer and consultant based in Winchester. She previously worked for PACA (Public Art Commissions Agency), The British Council, The Winchester Gallery, Oriel Mostyn and The Imperial War Museum. She has a particular interest in art and landscape.
Terry Vicor
Actor, performer, entertainer, storyteller, role-player, curmudgeon, vulgarian, playwright, whodunnit-contriver, slang dictionary-maker, anti-censorship campaigner, activist. Four works that are part of his story: Oscar-nominated Hedd Wyn, Punchdrunk's Masque of the Red Death, Murder on the Menu & the New Partridge Dictionaries of Slang & Unconventional English.