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Pitzhanger is seeking support to develop a series of three colourful public art pedestrian crossings in the heart of Ealing Broadway, designed by school children, for the community.
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Pitzhanger is the former home of architect Sir John Soane, opened to the public in March 2019 after a 3 year restoration. In our first year we welcome 60,000 visitors, put on world class art exhibitions (Anish Kapoor), and reached 12,000 education participants. The Times noted Pitzhanger as “one of the top 10 buildings in the world to visit”. Pitzhanger aims to develop 3 public art pedestrian crossings in the heart of Ealing Broadway. Taking precedent from schemes created by the V&A and the Business Improvement District Better Bankside. Better connecting Pitzhanger to the local community, helping navigate the visitor journey and enhancing the public space. We will work with two local schools and a youth group, and a community artist to develop the designs, bringing together art, people and places in one unique project. A fantastic opportunity to engage local children in an uplifting creative project, creating a sense of place and belonging for Ealing residents in the wake of Covid.
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The scheme provides an opportunity to better connect Pitzhanger to the local community. It will help navigate the visitor journey from Ealing Broadway station to Pitzhanger on Ealing Green. Pitzhanger did not have the chance to raise it’s profile in Ealing before the first lockdown came, having to close just one year after opening post-restoration. Many Ealing residents are still not familiar with Pitzhanger, and do not know that as an Ealing resident they have free access to the Manor and exhibitions twice a week. The crossings will hugely enhance the public space in the centre of Ealing Broadway for local residents, workers and shoppers. The children and young people from the two local schools and youth group we will work with will have the chance to develop their designs with a local artist, having been starved of arts education for the last year. The crossings will create a sense of pride and belonging for residents.
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We will also work with a community freelance artist, a group who have been badly hit by the pandemic.
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The exciting way for you to build prosperous and vibrant local areas across the borough of Ealing!
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Volunteer“A place of astonishing architectural and artistic invention” – Financial Times
“Fantastic effort to engage all ages... A renovation project that brings to life the place, its elegant, unusual architecture and decoration and its inhabitants, their hopes and disappointments. A tremendous effort by the Pitzhanger team.” @Piccolpassotiles
2019 saw the transformation of Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery. We reopened our doors following an award-winning three-year £12M restoration project, doubled visitor numbers, presented a bold programme of contemporary art exhibitions, raised our profile nationally and deepened our engagement with our local community in Ealing, one of London’s most diverse boroughs.
Pitzhanger is significant as a building designed and lived in by influential British architect Sir John Soane who built it as his ‘dream’ country villa between 1800-1804. The renewal breathed new life into Pitzhanger following a century of institutional use, returning it to Soane’s idiosyncratic design within his restored Regency gardens and parkland. For the first time in its history, every part of the Manor is now open to the public, with the addition of Soane’s Kitchen, a new-build café in the walled kitchen garden. Combined with the adjacent, upgraded Gallery, Pitzhanger juxtaposes the historic architecture with an exciting programme of contemporary art – an offer unique in outer West London.
The Gallery now stages major exhibitions intended to shine a new light on Soane’s designs and architecture. Pitzhanger reopened with an exhibition of mirror sculptures by Anish Kapoor, setting up a dialogue between the artworks and the adjacent Manor.
We aspire to become a hub for community cohesion in Ealing and the surrounding boroughs with our programme of public events, education and outreach work. We have engaged our target of 12,000 education participants; in parallel we built up a large base of dedicated, knowledgeable volunteers who are integral to the running of Pitzhanger. In 2021 we will complete the construction of a new Volunteer and Community Space.
Pitzhanger’s flagship programmes have included an architecture programme for state schools; ‘Little Builders’ activities for early years; workshops for dementia sufferers and carers; adult life drawing, and nature trails. Collaborating with Ealing Youth Justice Service, we worked with young people at risk of reoffending to create and display work inspired by the Anish Kapoor exhibition.
Project Owner: Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
