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The A Foundation, a Registered Charity, was established by James Moores in 1998. The primary purpose of the Foundation is to support the development, production and exhibition of contemporary visual art and, in particular, to focus on the enrichment and regeneration of Liverpool through culture and the arts.
The Foundation was the vehicle through which James Moores established the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, the first and now the largest visual arts festival in the UK; in 2006, it attracted over 300,000 visitors to the city. The Biennial played no small part in Liverpool being awarded European Capital of Culture 2008. A Foundation has recently consolidated and extended its operations. In 2006, it launched Greenland Street, an arts centre located in the Old Port area of Liverpool. This comprises three former industrial buildings: The Coach Shed, The Furnace and The Blade Factory, which together offer 2500sqm of exhibition space. The Foundation has created a welcoming arts centre, which includes a café and bookshop specialising in artists’ books. |
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| Greenland Street’s activities focus on an annual programme of major new commissions by artists who are offered a significant level of practical, financial, administrative and curatorial support to realise ambitious and risk-taking new works. The Foundation is actively engaged in fundraising to enable it to provide artists with the opportunity to create an outstanding work that has the potential to make a significant impact on their future careers. The inaugural Greenland Street commissions in 2006 included Sleep of Ulro by Goshka Macuga, Silent Sound by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Virtually Grizedale by Grizedale Arts and a new architectural commission by Office of Subversive Architecture. A Foundation has extended its work in Liverpool, to Rochelle School in the heart of London’s East End. The School is home to a thriving community of artists and creative industries housed in studios created from the School’s former classrooms. Club Row, Rochelle’s gallery is a flexible project space used to host multi-artform exhibitions, events, performances and installations. Rather than replicating existing provision within London, Club Row’s programme draws inspiration from the community of creative practitioners based at the School and maintains close links with exhibitions and projects developed at Greenland Street. The idea is not to tour projects between the two spaces, but to create a two-way exchange of ideas and practice between Liverpool and London. |
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Rochelle has also been actively involved in local community events on the Boundary Estate, helping to transform and regenerate the surrounding residential area. The canteen, run by Arnold & Henderson (Nose to Tail Eating), is at the heart of Rochelle’s community. It not only provides outstanding food, but acts as a crucial hub for all who pass through Rochelle’s doors. Rochelle School is also the home of A Database, a pioneering digital archive system based on the latest open source technology for recording, publicising, storing and preserving contemporary visual art. Launched in 2007 with the digital archive of Bloomberg’s New Contemporaries, A Database sets a new standard for contemporary visual art and visual culture in the virtual world. A Foundation continues its support of Bloomberg’s New Contemporaries, the UK’s most established and respected exhibition of emerging practise and The John Moores Painting Prize, now in its 25th year and more vital than ever as a showcase of the current trends and influences within painting. |
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