Please note that the Shine LEP public art programme for Blackburn with Darwen Phase 1 & 2 BSF schools has now been completed and so this Blogsite is now closed and longer active as of 1st January 2013. Further to this, Shine LEP no longer exists, and the BSF operational management in the Borough has transferred internally to Blackburn with Darwen Council. 


The programme has however now been replaced by a new Phase 3 & 4 BSF Artist Call being run again by BSF Arts Strategist Ian Banks, but this time for Blackburn with Darwen Council's Arts Development Service. Please therefore click on the Screencast below to see how to apply for and upload your artist Expression of Interest, or click on the Artist Call link on www.artistcall.net for more information on these latest phases.

Click on the Screencast below to see a very quick summary of the now completed Phase 1 and 2 artist residencies for the old Shine BSF artist residency programme relating to Pleckgate, Darwen Vale, Witton Park and Blackburn Central with Crosshill High Schools. Note that the Phase 1 & 2 Call for Artists is no longer open, and has now been replaced by the new Phase 3 & 4 Artist Call programme.