British artist Matthew Rosier has now been commissioned by The Maltings (Berwick) Trust on behalf of Create Berwick to bring a spectacular community-led installation, Berwick Parade, to the Barracks parade ground between Friday 28 February – Sunday 2 March 2025. To find out more contact: berwickshines@maltingsberwick.co.uk and follow us on Instagram and Facebook. 

In October we issued an Open Call for Residencies and Commissions to artists and creative practitioners across the UK and beyond, and we received over 100 applications! Watch this space for upcoming announcements about the March 2025 – March 2026 programme. 

The programme’s inspiration is the heritage of the town and Berwick Barracks, which is undergoing a major refurbishment to bring all the empty buildings and spaces on the site back into use; providing a striking new home for the town’s archives and collections, contemporary visual art and The King’s Own Scottish Borderers Regimental Museum on a single landmark site. 

The legacy of Berwick Shines programme will support a long-term engagement with the Barracks site, museum collections and archives. This is an exciting multi-partner project, and while the development of the Barracks site is taking place, artists will undertake residencies and commissions i inspired by the extensive heritage collections of the Berwick and the Barracks, which will be presented across the town.  

Berwick Shines is the Living Barracks Cultural Engagement programme delivered by The Maltings (Berwick) Trust and supported by the Cultural Development Fund, a Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) fund administered by Arts Council England.