Calverley Horticultural Society Show Centenary. Help us celebrate our centenary – artistically. To celebrate our 100th show in 2021, we want to commission an artist who will produce a piece of work which will tell our story. We’re open to ideas on what this will be, but would expect it to be a visual work which can be placed in the village library, which is also a local history centre.

Can you work with us to create an artwork to celebrate the centenary of our village show? Calverley is a village between Pudsey and Horsforth, Leeds, with a thriving community of people who love their allotments, gardens, arts and crafts. Calverley Horticultural Society is more than 100 years old and runs the allotments in the centre of the village, as well as supporting environmental initiatives such as Village in Bloom and tree-planting.

The annual show, held on the August Bank Holiday weekend, has become a popular feature in the village calendar. In common with all village shows, it encourages local people to submit entries in classes which include fruit, vegetables, flowers, handicrafts, art, baking, preserves, wine, floral art and photography as well as children’s classes. It’s a fun competition, with entry fees of 50p and prizes of £5. Trophies are presented in certain classes, these have been donated over the years and are very much part of the show’s heritage.

The show attracts people from the village and some from further afield and is a popular social event.

To celebrate our 100th show in 2021, we want to commission an artist who will produce a piece of work which will tell our story. We’re open to ideas on what this will be, but would expect it to be a visual work which can be placed in the village library, which is also a local history centre.

We would encourage the artist to work with one or more local groups to develop the piece. We would also like the artist to produce a simple logo-type stamp from an element of the artwork, which we can use on publicity materials in the run-up to the show in 2021.

We are offering a fee of £750, for this we would expect:

• Attending up to two meetings in Calverley with user group, one to start the commission, the other to present the final work

• Linking with the community to help develop the artwork (for example attending the 2020 show in August, or meeting with one or two local groups)

• Producing an art piece, size and material to be agreed

• Producing an electronic representation from an element of the artwork to be used in social media etc as the ‘brand’ for the centenary celebrations

Calverley Horticultural Society has a Facebook page and website