The Great North Run Cultural Programme, now known as Great North Run Culture, is an annual series of artistic commissions which celebrate and respond to the Great North Run - the world's largest half-marathon - its history and route, its spirit and recollection, the thousands of journeys and stories of those who take part. Established in 2005 to celebrate the twenty fifth Great North Run, Great North Run Culture explores the partnership between art and sport. Commissions have included film, photography, music, dance, painting, drawing, writing and mass participation projects. New work has been created by artists and creative practitioners including

Jane and Louise Wilson Jane Wilson and Louise Wilson (born 1967 in Newcastle upon Tyne) are British artists who work together as a sibling duo. Jane and Louise Wilson's art work is based in video, film and photography. They are Young British Artists, YBA artists who w ...

Michael Nyman Michael Laurence Nyman, Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer, pianist, libretto, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film soundtrack, scores (many written during his length ...

, Fiona Banner, Bill Bryson,David Almond, Julian Germain, Graham Dolphin, Neville Campbell, Michael Baig-Clifford and

Ravi Deepres Ravi Deepres is a British artist who works with lens based and screen based media. He has worked extensively with contemporary dance companies, including Wayne McGregor Random Dance Company ( UK) and Karas (Japan), and with the British avant gar ...

, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Suky Best, James Edwards, Stephen Gill and Beat Streuli.

The Great North Run Moving Image Commission

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Great North Run and to create a legacy from the first Cultural Programme film by

, an annual Moving Image Commission was launched, awarding an artist of film-maker £30,000 to create a new piece of work based on the Great North Run. The films are premiered in

North East England North East England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. The region has three current administrative levels below the region level in the region; combined authority, unitary authorit ...

in September as part of the Great North Run Cultural Programme, with an extract screened on the BBC as part of their live coverage of the Great North Run. There are plans to tour all of the works nationally and internationally from the end of 2008. Previous Moving Image Commission Awards 2006: ''Runner'' by Michael Baig-Clifford and

Selected by: artist Louise Wilson; Steven Bode, director of Film and Video Umbrella;

Brendan Foster Sir Brendan Foster (born 12 January 1948) is a British former long-distance runner, athletics commentator and road race organiser, who founded the Great North Run, one of the sport's most high profile half-marathon races. As an athlete, he wo ...

, chairman of the BUPA Great North Run; Beth Rowson, curator and manager of the Cultural Programme; Rebecca Shatwell, visual arts officer at

Arts Council England Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three s ...

. 2007: ''About Running'' by Suky Best Selected by: artist Mark Wallinger, Dave Gordon, head of special events at BBC Sport;

; Beth Rowson; Rebecca Shatwell 2008: '' Run for me'' by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard Selected by: artist Beat Streuli; Dave Gordon;

; Beth Rowson; Rebecca Shatwell 2009: ''Parade'' b
Vicki Bennett (People Like Us)
Selected by: Amanda Ritson, visual arts officer at

; Paul Bonaventura, senior research fellow in fine art studies at the University of Oxford; Beth Rowson, manager of the Cultural Programme 2010: ''Girl Blue Running Shoe'' by Claire Leona Apps Selected by: Caroline Smith, arts consultant; Soraya Rodriguez, Director of Zoo Art Fair, Amanda Ritson and Beth Bate, director of Great North Run Culture. 2011: ''Run a Mile In My Shoes'' by David Blandy Selected by: Godfrey Worsdale, director of Baltic; Alison Clark-Jenkins, director of Arts Council England North East; artist Simon Pope and Beth Bate. 2012: "The Order of Things" by Karin Kihlberg and Reuben Henry Selected by: Jon Bewley, director of Locus+; Alison Clark-Jenkins, director of Arts Council England North East; artist Graham Gusssin; and Beth Bate. 2013: "Tracer" by Melanie Manchot Selected by: Alice Sharp of Invisible Dust; Judith King of Arts and Heritage; artist Matt Stokes; and Beth Bate.

External links

Great North Run CultureGreat North Run Moving Image Commission
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