 The Financial Services Authority
Plan’s work at the FSA involves the curatorship of the organisation’s significant collection of art, advising the Art Steering Group on loans and acquisitions, delivering exhibitions and events and devising art-orientated education and training opportunities for staff.
 
In curating the collection the focus is on transmitting the values of the FSA and drawing staff into an engagement with it. It is felt the art should reflect the organisation’s dependable, established personality but also give expression to the unorthodox, reflecting the creative and enlightened atmosphere that the organisation wishes to encourage.
 
Artist Emily Allchurch at the FSA Emily Allchurch Overview (after Turner) detail
mixed media, light box
Plan sources and selects works from artists’ studios, galleries and public exhibitions, and presents them to the Art Steering Group on a three monthly basis for possible purchase or loan. A by-product of this programme is to use it as a framework for events that allow the ASG to introduce the works to the wider community within the FSA. In this way, the art is brought resolutely into the ‘life’ of the organisation.
A particularly successful aspect of our work has been the invitation of artists whose work the organisation has bought to come in to speak to staff about their practice. The atmosphere is stimulating and inquisitive, with many staff in attendance.
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