The hunt is on for four artist whose job it will be to capture the heartbeat of a town. Maryport Arts and Heritage Partnership is looking for four artists/creators based in the CA15 area.

Their task will be to create four new pieces on the theme of MADE IN MARYPORT, celebrating Maryport’s long history of manufacturing, creativity and making.

From the Roman altars and fortress, boat and shipbuilding across the ages, fisheries and salt panning, iron ore and coal mines, coke blasting, glass making to the industries of the 20th century there is plenty of inspiration.

There are also housewives making food and clothes the shipbuilders and property developers, the fishermen and farmers, the miners and ironworkers, the retailers and publicans, the factory machinists and laborers and the musicians, writers, and artists.

The project is being partly funded by With all this to work on and a blank canvas when it comes to medium.

The project will celebrate the town and offer opportunities for local artists and to develop their work.

Each commission can be any kind of artistic response to the theme – visual art, sculpture and photography, music, poetry/literature, digital art, dance, drama Each successful submission will be awarded £500.

They will be displayed or celebrated in a medium-appropriate manner in the town during the Heritage Action Zone project and (where appropriate) owned by the town for display in perpetuity.

Artists/Creators must be residents in the CA15 postcode and must submit a proposal of no more than one side of A4 or a video presentation of no more than five minutes, an example of previous work and full contact details by 5pm on 21st March 2022.

The project is being supported by the Castle Hill Trust (Maryport Settlement), Senhouse Museum Trust, Cultural Trust, Maryport Maritime Heritage Ltd, Yan Tan Tethera Creative, Allerdale Borough Council and Cumbria County Council.

It is partly funded by Historic England as part of its Maryport High Street Action Heritage Zone funding.