Insight UK. The Arts (FCO, 2001).pdf

INSIGHT UK

The Arts

1220–70 Salisbury Cathedral built.

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

Late 14th Century – Geoffrey

Chaucer writes The Canterbury Tales.

Eight in ten UK citizens attend

an arts event each year.

1600–05 – Shakespeare writes

Hamlet , Othello and King Lear.

1798 – Publication of Wordsworth

and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads.

Attendance at Cultural Events 1997/98:

Cinema 54%

1821 – John Constable paints

The Hay Wain.

Theatre 23%

Art galleries/exhibitions 22%

Classical music concerts 12%

Ballet 6%

Opera 6%

Contemporary dance 4%

1849–50 – Charles Dickens writes

David Copperfield.

193 1 – Ninette de Valois establishes

the Vic-Wells ballet company

(becomes the Royal Ballet Company).

1945 – Benjamin Britten’s opera

Peter Grimes performed.

Cinema attendance rose by 20% between 1988–98

1955 – First performance of Samuel

Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.

Box office takings: £332 million

Average audience at the 100-plus West End theatres in 1998 –

744 people

1965 – Sculptor Barbara Hepworth

made a dame.

1967 – The Beatles’ Sergeant

Pepper’s Lonely Hearts’ Club Band

album released.

February 1999 – BBC nominates its 20 Top British

cultural masterpieces including:

1994 – Release of the film Four

Weddings and A Funeral.

Architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art

Painter David Hockney’s Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy

Designer Harry Beck’s stylised map of the London Underground network

Sculptor Anthony Gormley’s Angel of the North

2000 – Royal National Theatre

tops winners list at prestigious

Olivier Awards.

TOP LEFT: © Edinburgh Festival

TOP RIGHT: © Creative Photography

BOTTOM: © Creative Photography

STATE FUNDING

of the ARTS

In May 2000 lottery grants of

£4,472,000 announced by ACE for

‘capital projects’ including a new

arts centre in Runcorn, Cheshire

and the redevelopment of the

Royal Shakespeare Company’s

theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.

LOCAL

GOVERNMENT

Local authorities run most art

venues outside London including

1,000 museums and galleries.

The Corporation of London is

the third largest sponsor of the

arts in the UK.

‘The point of subsidy is that

it acts as investment, provides

continuity, allows artistic

risks, sustains the best of

tradition, develops new

talent, feeds the commercial

entertainment economy, and

does all this at reasonable

seat prices.’

Sir Richard Eyre – Director of the

Royal National Theatre (1988–97)

The Scottish Arts

Council Creative

Awards 2000 – £25,000

prizes go to 14 artists.

The NATIONAL

LOTTERY

Ticket sales since the launch of

the National Lottery have secured

over £26.9 billion, raising £9.3

billion for good causes.

£39 million has been allocated to

Welsh Arts. In August 2000,

£2,174,000 in lottery fund

distributed for various projects

including public sculpture in

towns such as Usk and Mumbles.

Central Government

In 2001/02 over £250 million

is being channelled from the

Government to arts and cultural

organisations through the Arts

Council of England (ACE).

The average size of grants from

the National Lottery is £40,000.

People attending ACE funded arts

organisations in 1998/99:

24,554,000.

It would take 17 days non-stop

viewing to watch all the UK films

supported by National Lottery

Funding.

Visual arts museums

receiving largest state

subsidy 1998/99

(in millions):

ACE is committed to

nurturing creativity,

experimentation,

technology, diversity and

wider audiences for the arts.

GOVERNMENT

ART COLLECTION

The collection dates from 1898

and now amounts to 11,500 works

of art.

British Museum,

London – £33,921

Victoria and Albert Museum,

London – £29,147

Tate Gallery, London – £19,218

National Museums and Galleries

on Merseyside – £12,696

March 2000 – 34 galleries share

£2 million in grants as part of

‘Spaces and Places’ scheme designed

to support important collections of

the visual arts and crafts.

The collection is on public display

in 150 UK government buildings

and 300 foreign locations including

Embassies and High Commissions.

LEFT: © Michael Nicholson

TOP RIGHT: © Pathé Distribution

BOTTOM RIGHT: © 20th Century Fox

BUSINESS

SPONSORSHIP

Between 1975 and 1999,

business sponsorship of the

arts in the UK has grown from

£600,000 to £141 million.

CRAFTS

Over 6,500 UK craftspeople are on

the National Register of Makers.

FILM

The four key British

film studios:

Pinewood

Shepperton

Elstree

Leavesden

The Crafts Council in London

houses the largest collection of

craft works in the UK.

In 1998/99 businesses put £35.2

million towards the capital costs

of arts organisations and gave

£8.9 million through corporate

membership schemes.

DANCE

The main subsidised

dance companies include:

The Royal Ballet

The English National Ballet

The Birmingham Royal Ballet

Rambert Dance Company

DV8

March 27, 2000 –

UK stage director Sam Mendes’

first film American Beauty carries

off five Academy Awards (Oscars).

FESTIVALS

MUSIC

The music industry is one of the

top ‘invisible earners’ after

banking and insurance. In 1999

it earned £1.3 billion.

Over 550 arts festivals

are held each year in

the UK including:

The Edinburgh Festival

The Notting Hill Carnival

The London Film Festival

Each year 30-plus members of the

Royal Ballet tour the country.

The year 2000 saw London’s 22nd

annual international festival of

contemporary dance – Dance

Umbrella.

THEATRE

There are over 700

performing arts

companies in the UK.

BOOKS

Figures for February to May 2000

suggest that 6% of all book sales

occur over the internet.

DESIGN

84% of businesses in

the UK employ design

staff or consultants.

Fringe theatre in London offers

over 60 shows a night in addition

to the main West End theatres.

J.K. Rowling’s fourth

Harry Potter book published

on 8 July 2000 – 372,775

copies sold on first day.

There are 40 regional theatre

companies across the UK.

One in five UK firms

has a dedicated design

department.

Average annual attendance at

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

(opened in 1996) – 250,000.

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

TV and RADIO

The broadcast media are by

far the most influential of all

media in bringing the arts

into the home.

8 million visits a year

to the UK’s 2,500

museums and galleries.

Sources

Brit Arts

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Department of Culture,

Media and Sport

Annual Report 2000

Department of Culture,

Media and Sport website:

www.culture.gov.uk

Arts Council of Wales website:

www.ccc-acw.org.uk

British Council website:

www.britcoun.org

British Film Institute website:

www.bfi.uk

Dance Umbrella website:

www.danceumbrella.co.uk

Design Council website:

www.design-council.org.uk

Institute of Contemporary Arts website:

www.newmediacentre.com

Arts Council of England website:

www.artscouncil.org.uk

Scottish Arts Council website:

www.sac.org.uk

12 May 2000 – The Tate Modern

art gallery opens in converted

Bankside Power Station, London.

Cost: £134 million. The main

turbine hall is 152 metres long, 30

metres high and 23 metres wide.

In its first year it attracted

5.2 million visitors.

The BBC’s Walking with Dinosaurs

cost £6 million and took three years

to make. It won record audiences of

20 million people – half the viewing

public in UK. Overseas sales net £60

million.

In 2000, the £20,000 Turner

Prize was awarded to

Wolfgang Tillmans for

an art arrangement of

60 photographs.

The BBC

• operates four television channels

• five national radio networks

• 39 regional & local radio stations

• broadcasts 100 hours of classical

and other music each week on

Radio 3

The NEXT

GENERATION

Two million children experience

live arts performances in their

schools provided by visiting groups

each year.

Independent Radio & TV

• 3 terrestrial channels

• satellite TV and cable services

funded mainly by subscription

• 3 national commercial radio

stations and over 200 local

radio services

Published by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London

Telephone: 020 7270 1500 Internet address: www.fco.gov.uk

Details of other FCO publications are available from

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Written by Jerome Monahan

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Many of the next generation of

dancers come through the Royal

Ballet School, the Central School

of Ballet and the School of

Contemporary Dance in Leeds.

VISUAL ARTS

The first painting acquired by

the National Portrait Gallery: the

‘Chandos’ Portrait of Shakespeare .

To date, the UK’s National Film

and Television School graduates

have picked up 250 awards for

their films in international festivals.

April 2001 Order No: 1045

The National Gallery owns

in excess of 2,300 paintings.

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