Partners and Funders
Funders
Nowhereisland is an Artists Taking the Lead project, part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. 12 commissions will be created by artists across the UK, as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. It is funded by Arts Council England.
Nowhereisland is also supported by the University of the West of England, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Royal Norwegian Embassy and Nicky Wilson Jupiter Artland.
Partners
Nowhereisland is a collaborative project which has being developed with schools, community groups, artists and other organisations in each of the seven ports and harbours in south west England, as well as organisations in Norway and the High Arctic.
At present, our partners include:
The British Red Cross
Budmouth College, Weymouth
Exmouth Town Council
Exmouth Arts Festival
Transition Exmouth
Jurassic Coast Earth Festival 2012
Ilfracombe Arts College
MShed, Bristol Museums and Galleries
Natural History Museum
Plymouth Arts Centre
Take A Part, Efford, Plymouth
High View Primary School, Efford, Plymouth
Projectbase
National Trust
Sea Ilfracombe
Spike Associates, Spike Island, Bristol
We are immensely grateful to the following individual experts and organisations for their incredible support during the Arctic expedition in September 2011.
Iridium (mobile satellite communications)
Taunton Leisure (Bristol)
Chris White, Chambers & Cook and Mark Brighton, Sea Cargo for making Tamsin Omond’s sea journey from Immingham, UK to Longyearbyen, Svalbard possible.
In addition, we would also like to thank individually the captains and crews of the vessels including M/V Baltic Bright (Immingham to Bergen), M/S Nordvik (Bergen to Bodø) and M/V Green Frost (Bodø to Longyearbyen).
The Office of the Governor of Svalbard
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
