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As 2023 comes to a close, we are reflecting on achieving our main objective which was to get planning permission for the PERFUGIUM MISERIS artwork. Today, we went too the site on Ramsgate Harbour Arm of the new project which will be, hopefully, delivered in the New Year.
We have an amazing announcement to make!
At last night’s Planning meeting, the Committee overwhelmingly voted to grant permission for our PERFUGIUM MISERIS art work down in Ramsgate Harbour. Now, the hard work really begins to deliver this complex and profound artwork for a much loved coastal town.
After a year of getting organised, crossing the T’s and dotting the I’s, the planning application is back and live for PERFUGIUM MISERIS. We had to submit a brand new planning application in order to put the work back in its original location on the Harbour wall.
Mooch has won an award!
We are really pleased to have won a Highly Commended award in part of last weeks Ramsgate Design Awards event.
Since May 2022, Hold Creative Spaces in Ramsgate have been holding evening talks entitled ‘Voice on Art’, hosted by Julia Jane Heckles who is a Morley College lecturer and the resident art historian at Hold. On the 6th July 2023, Theresa Smith from Mooch was invited to contribute to the theme of that evenings talk, which was ‘Is Public Art an Imposition?’.
We wanted to encourage the public to interact with the artwork and post their hilarious selfies using #WHEE! and we have had some amazing responses so far: elongated legs, short arms and long faces, the reflections remind us of the fun that the seaside can bring
Mooch was delighted to receive an invitation and join the Broadstairs college work placement conference a few days ago. We have worked with the industry liaison program for a few years now and spent the morning chatting with students about their aspirations to work in the creative industries.
Next time you are by the toilets at Ramsgate seafront, stop outside to try out the new artwork on the wall. WHEE is an installation that has just been completed, which invites people to stop and play with their reflections in the curved letters made of mirror stainless steel.
This month Mooch is 20 years old!
Started in 2002 with a business grant from the Custom House Regeneration project, (THANK YOU Graham Pilkington!) we went straight into working up ideas for public realm improvements in regeneration areas
To celebrate the up-and-coming Queens Platinum Jubilee, Mooch & Hold Creative Spaces are bringing a series of events in Ramsgate to celebrate the occasion.