Registered number 06014730
**Charity Number 1124325**
Igloo Artists Limited
Accounts
30 November 2020
**Igloo Artists Limited Registered number: 06014730 Trustees’ Report**
## **Introduction**
The trustees are pleased to present their annual report together with consolidated financial statements of the Charity for the year ending November 2020, which are also prepared to meet the requirements for the director's commentary and account for the Companies Act purposes. The financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Companies Act 2006, The Memorandum and Articles of Associations and the Statement of Recommended Practice - Accounting and Reporting by Charities (SORP 2005).
## **Chair’s report**
COVID- 19 has had an enormous impact on access to creative work, and it has also impacted the creation of new work. Creative fields such as dance and theatre are highly physical, with movement and touch at their core. Highly collaborative processes that the directors would typically partake in have been curtailed, postponed or even cancelled during 2020. The year has relied on online exhibitions and exploring remote collaboration, software and tools to bring together dance and interaction design. The directors have strived to work with virtual movement workshops, conferences and talks.
The pandemic has decimated performing, teaching and collaborating practices that are primarily participatory and dependent on social interaction. These exchanges have sometimes put processes in limbo with venues and organisations and institutions unable to commit to projects because of uncertainty.
Through this precarious environment, our directors have had to adapt and be versatile. The report, therefore, maps the year and the achievements made in the difficult circumstances that have permeated culture and society. The directors have demonstrated that they can support their partners' collaborators and associates by harnessing the potential of technologies, facilitating networks and connections between parties. Addressing some of the concerns raised by navigating the 'Coronasphere' has meant a shift in practice to move to the online exhibition space. The directors have been fortunate enough to be involved with a number of ongoing projects which have enabled work to continue and further their professional development.
## **Projects in development, exhibitions and funding over the year. DAZZLE**
Following on from the successful prototype, the Dazzle team conducted many demonstrations of the project and held many successful meetings with producers, funders and venues. The team applied for a production grant from Creative XR to develop the prototype, and in December 2019, were successful in this second round. In future, to fully realise the scope of the project, it must necessarily be commercial - partly supported by performance ticket sales and other forms of revenue generation. However, the project's ethos must contain sustainable, accessible, downloadable and open-source elements to engage a wider audience. The team (which comprises Gibson/Martelli and future fashion studio Peut-Porter) decided to spin out a separate company, THAYAHT, to produce and manage the DAZZLE project.
## **EXHIBITIONS**
2020 London Film Festival Expanded, BFI South Bank
2020 _Enter Through The Headset 5,_ Gazelli Art House, London. 2020 Aotearoa Garden, Ars Electronica Festival for Art, Technology Society, Online 2020 _Raw Green,_ Sim Smith Gallery, London 2020 CADAF Art Fair, Online
2020 Skelf _You're in a computer game, Max!_ Online
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## 2020 _London Film Festival Expanded_ , BFI
From 7 to 18 October 2020, the BFI London Film Festival was the first-ever edition to be widely accessible, with over 50 virtual premieres, free online events and cinema screenings across the land. DAZZLE SOLO presented as part of the festival.
LFF Expanded is the new strand of XR and Immersive art. Alexa Pollmann, Bruno Martelli, Bine Roth and choreographer Ruth Gibson's unique artistic project re-imagines this one-off historical event. Zig-zag motifs – inspired by the naval dazzle-ship patterns from the First World War – are applied to costumes and set design, playing with audiences' vision and perception. These astonishing visuals build the optical framework for a multi-sensory live performance and fine arts exhibition, which will premiere in spring 2021. It's an incredible fusion of dance and immersive technology for multiple participants. We are proud to present a work-inprogress single-user-version of the show. Let's have a Ball'.
2020 _Enter Through The Headset_ 5 at Gazelli Art House, London. 04 September – 03 October
The fifth anniversary of the groundbreaking new media group exhibition series features Rebecca Allen, Jocelyn Anquetil, BRiGHTBLACK, Claudia Hart, Michael Takeo Magruder with Drew Baker, Gibson/Martelli with Roche & Mercier, Matterlurgy, Mbryonic with Xavier Sole, Iain Nicholls and Matteo Zamagni.
2020 Aotearoa Garden Ars Electronica Festival for Art, Technology Society September 09-13, 2020
Gibson/Martelli presented a VR version in Mozilla Hubs of the moving image installation WAHAWAEWAO together with our collaborators Carol Brown + Russell Scoones as part of the Aotearoa Garden representing New Zealand for Ars Electronica.
2020 _New Raw Green,_ Sim Smith Gallery London 18 July – 15 August 2020
Sim Smith invited Gibson/Martelli to present at a group show that exploreed new notions of the environment, body and the landscape, sculpture and painting, film and photography. Set amid the Covid-19 pandemic, human rights protests and climate change, where the foundational assumptions of art are remade.
## 2020 _YOU'RE IN A COMPUTER GAME, MAX!_
21 April – 20 July
The exhibition positions the work of 8 artists in a navigational 3-dimensional digital space, within which muted videos overlap and collide to form new combinations, and a user performed soundtrack of the artists sound works provides the backdrop. Katriona Beales / Daria Blum / Rovert Cervera / Gibson/Martelli / Leiken /Bill Leslie / Jonas Pequeno / Daniel Shanken.
## 2020 _CADAF ART FAIR Online_
The art fair is devoted to supporting a global community of galleries, artists, and collectors. CADAF launched CADAF Online, a virtual art fair held online from 25 June to 28, 2020.
Gibson/Martelli VR works were shown as part of CADAF Online with Gazelli Art House alongside Rebecca Allen & Claudia Hart.
## **TALKS**
DATA VISIONARIES: RE-IMAGINING MULTI-SENSORY EXPERIENCES. 27-Oct-20
Gibson/Martelli presented as a part of the panel at Simon Fraser University. _'Can new technologies incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) and computational creativity re-imagine what it means to produce and consume art?'_ part of _'The Data Visionaries Series presents Data for the Senses: Re-Imagining MultiSensory Experiences.'_
## GAME ENGINES BEYOND GAMES
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29 August and 05 September
Gibson and Martelli were invited to speak at this two-part online symposium bringing together artists, curators and scholars to explore the expanded concept of game engines. Other speakers included Joseph de Lappe, Phoenix Perry, Colleen Macklin, Nick Fortugno, Mattie Brice, Marie-Clare le Blanc Flanagan.
## **AWARDS & COMMISSIONS**
2020 Creative XR 2nd Round Funding Digital Catapult(with Peut-Porter) 2020 UKRI Business-led innovation in response to global disruption (with THAYAHT) 2020 EPIC MEGA GRANT for DAZZLE (with THAYAHT)
## **RESEARCH**
## **4I PROJECT**
September 2019 - September 2021
The directors have been part of a group of researchers exploring machine learning in virtual reality. 4i _'Immersive Interaction design for Indie developers with Interactive Machine Learning'_ aims to support independent developers and artists in designing movement and body-based interaction for Virtual Reality and immersive media. This project builds tools to allow designing by moving via Interactive Machine Learning. Creating better tools and working processes aims to enable developers to create better movement interaction for players, audiences and end-users.
This work has continued throughout the pandemic, but most in-person workshops cancelled, however hackathons and presentations at various conferences and symposia have taken place. For example, at Tate Modern for international Women's Day 19 March 2020, VR Hackathon: Hand Tracking interaction 10-16th September 2020, I3VA Workshop on Immersive Interaction design for IVAs 18th October 2020. The project offered three small residency grants for artists to use the new tool _'InteractML'_ developed by the 4i research team.
## **Streaming Mocap**
July 2020
Bruno Martelli is part of an award-winning team that the UKRI has funded to research and develop an open source tool: MotionRiver: the Universal Mocap Streamer.
'Imagine immersing yourself in a VR experience in the UK where all the characters are animated by live actors from Australia or a dance video game that features real dancers captured in Mumbai. MotionRiver allows developers to create new types of responsive experiences. From immersive live performances to interactive video games – the difference here is that instead of repeating the same programmatic or looping sequence, over and over, characters will be able to react and respond naturally and realistically – because real actors control them. MotionRiver is an innovative open-source software toolkit that inputs and outputs a wide variety of mocap data converted into a 'universal' format. Just as Android and iOS work on different phones, there are also other types of mocap data – and this tool will solve the compatibility problem – allowing more interconnectivity. The application streams data over the internet to remote computers running the application, receiving and using the motion data in the desired format.'
## **PUBLICATIONS**
Gibson, R., & Martelli, B. (2019). Art of the Accident. In Error, Ambiguity, and Creativity: A Multidisciplinary Reader Popat. S, Whatley. S, 2020 Palgrave Macmillan.
Brown. C, Gibson. R, Roche. J _Towards a Deterritorialised Field of Dance in Dance Fields: Staking A Claim for Dance in the Twenty-First Century_ David, Ann R., Michael Huxley, Sarah Whatley (eds) 2020 Dance Books.
## **OTHER**
EXPANDED FIELDS (MOZILLA HUBS) as part of LIVE COLLISION _A moving image installation with film, sound and virtual reality_ . Nov 27 -Dec 04
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Expanded Fields (Mozilla Hubs) draws on the collaborative project by dance artist Jenny Roche, Gibson/Martelli and composer Mel Mercier, with dancers Kévin Coquelard, Henry Montes and Ursula Robb. Re-imagined for Mozilla Hubs, this virtual installation invites audiences into an intimate perspective of the complexities of individual and shared experiences of dancing together. Each audience member gains an avatar when they enter Mozilla Hubs to move around the virtual exhibition space and encounter different aspects of the installation. When we are restricted from experiencing the live performance together in space, this installation offers the viewer an opportunity to explore the work online from multiple perspectives.
## **PRESS**
## GUARDIAN 13 October 2020
' _Virtual voguing and digital razzle-dazzle: London film festival takes the arts into a new dimension.'_ Springback Magazine 27 October 2020
_'Dancing Virtually Into The London Film Festival'_
## **Public Benefit Statement**
We have been promoting artistic appreciation to the wider public by creating cultural events, openings, workshops and talks. Many of these events took place online or in art galleries, for conferences and Higher Education Institutions. We publicised them, in a broad spectrum of media, as widely as possible. All the events the directors were involved in were open to members of the public. The artists hold education sessions, talks & dissemination events open to the general public & free.
The artists delivered high-quality supervision to students across different disciplines by coordinating tutorials, & workshops.
## **Objectives and Activities of the Charity**
Our purposes and activities:
The purpose of the Charity is to further the advancement of the arts and education in the arts in particular but not exclusively by:
(i) providing workshops in the visual, media and performing arts for the benefit of the general public
(ii) improving the quality of life of children and young people with physical and mental disabilities through the design and production of sensory environments and material; and
(iii) producing, presenting and distributing new artworks
## **Plans for future periods**
invitation to tender for Coventry City of Culture for ' _DAZZLE'_ Proposal to Arebyte Gallery Solo exhibition at Gazelli Art House Meetings with venues for exhibitions
The artists are considering applying to several trusts and foundations for funds for new projects and continue to strengthen links with the community, our audiences and peers.
## **Reference and administrative details**
## **Our advisors**
Independent examiner Nik Fisher FCCA Simia Wall
Bankers
NatWest plc, Aldgate Branch, PO Box 10863 130
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## **Directors**
The following persons served as directors and trustees during the year:
Colm Lally David Surman
## **Small company provisions**
This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions in Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
This report was approved by the board on 31st August 2021 and signed on its behalf.
Colm Lally Director
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## **Igloo Artists Limited**
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the trustees of the charity**
Ireportontheaccounts of thecompanyfor theyear ended30thNovember 2020 whichare set out on pages 10 to 14.
This report is made solely to the trustees, as a body, in accordance with the regulations made under Section 154 of the Charities Act 2011. My work has been undertaken so that I might state to the charitable company’s trustees those matters I am required to state to them in an independent examiner’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, I do not accept or assume responsibilityto anyoneother than the charitablecompanyandthe charitablecompany’s trustees, as a body, for my work, for this report, or for the opinions I have formed.
Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner
The trustees (who are also directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 145(3) of the Charities Act 2011 (the Act) and that an independent examination is needed.
Having satisfied myself that the charitable company is not subject to audit under company law and is eligible for independent examination, it is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under section 145(1)(a) of the Act;
• to follow the procedures laid down the General Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act; and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of Independent Examiner’s report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the generalDirections given bythe Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ’true and fair view’ and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
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## **Igloo Artists Limited Independent Examiner’s Report to the trustees of the charity**
## **Independent Examiner’s Statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements
(i) to keep accounting records in accordance with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006; (ii) to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the Companies Act 2006 and with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities; have not been met; or
2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in my report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached;
Nik Fisher FCCA Simia Wall Chartered Accountants
Devonshire House 582 Honeypot Lane Stanmore, Middx HA7 1JS
31st August 2021
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## **Igloo Artists Limited**
## **Statement of Financial Activities (incoporating an Income and Expenditure account)**
## **for the year ended 30 November 2020**
|**Notes**
**Income and endowments from:**
2
Other operating income
**Total incoming resources**
Charitable activities
3a
Other
3b
**Total**
**Reconciliation of funds**
**Total funds brought forward**
**Total funds carried forward**
Charitiable activities
**Net (expenditure)**|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
**funds**
**funds**
**funds**
**2020**
**2020**
**2020**
**£**
**£**
**£**
94,459
-
94,459
10,000
-
10,000
104,459
104,459
86,370
-
86,370
15,652
-
15,652
102,022
-
102,022
2,437
-
2,437
5,042
-
5,042
7,479
-
7,479|**2019**
**£**
47,322
-|
|---|---|---|
|||47,322
43,975
554|
|||44,529|
|||2,793
2,249|
|||5,042|
The net movement in funds referred to above is the net incoming resources as defined in the Statement of Recommended Practice for Accounting and Reporting issued by the Charity Commission for England & Wales and is reconciled to the total funds as shown in the Balance Sheet on page 11 as required by the said statement.
## **All activities derive from continuing operations**
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## **Igloo Artists Limited Registered number:** 06014730 **Balance Sheet as at 30 November 2020**
|**Notes**
**Current assets**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: amounts falling due**
**within one year**
4
**Net current assets**
**Total net (liabilities)/assets**
**The funds of the charity**
accumulated funds
5
**Total charity funds**|**2020**
**£**
8,629
(1,150)
7,479
7,479
7,479
7,479|**2019**
**£**
5,610
(540)
4,253
4,253
4,253
4,253|**2019**
**£**
5,610
(540)
4,253
4,253
4,253
4,253|
|---|---|---|---|
|||||
||||4,253|
||||4,253|
||||4,253|
The directors are satisfied that the company is entitled to exemption from the requirement to obtain an audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit inaccordance withsection 476of the Act.
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
The accounts have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the special provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. The profit and loss account has not been delivered to the Registrar of Companies.
Colm Lally Director Approved by the board on 31 August 2021
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## **Igloo Artists Limited Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 30 November 2020**
## **1 Accounting policies**
## _**Basis of preparation**_
The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective January 2015) as modified by the Statement of Recommended Practice for Accounting and Reporting issued by the Charity Commissioners for England & Wales. The accounts have been drawn up in accordance with the provisions of the Charities Acts and the Companies Acts, and include the results of the charity’s operations which are described in the Trustees’ Report, all of which are continuing.
## _**Incoming resources**_
Grants and donations are recognised where there is entitlement, certainty of receipt and the amount can be measured with sufficient reliability.
Deferred income represents amounts received for future periods and is released to incoming sources in the period for which it has been received. Such income is only deferred when the donor specifies that the donation must only be used in future accounting periods or the donor has imposed conditions which must be met before the charity has unconditional entitlement.
Investment income is recognised on a receivable basis.
## _**Resources expended**_
Liabilities are recognised on the accruals basis in accordance with normal accounting principles, modified where necessary in accordance with the guidance given in the Statement of Recommended Practice for Accounting and Reporting issued bythe CharityCommissioners for England & Wales.
## Charitable activities
Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them.
## Governance costs
Governance costs include costs of the preparation and examination of the statutory accounts, the costs of trustee meetings and the cost of any legal advice to trustees on governance or constitutional matters.
## _**Cash flow statement**_
The charity has taken advantage of the exemption applicable to small companies and not produced a cash flow statement.
## _**Taxation**_
As a registeredcharity, the company is exempt from income andcorporationtax totheextentthat its income and gains are applicable to charitable purposes only.
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## **Igloo Artists Limited Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 30 November 2020**
## **1 Trustees remuneration and expenses**
No remuneration or benefits were paid to trustees or persons connected with them during the year.
|**2**
**Income**
Other operating income
Artist fees
**3**
**Expenditure**
a
Costs of charitable activities
Artists fees
Production costs
Directors' salaries
Travel
Other costs
b
Governance costs
Bank charges
Rent and water rates
Examination and accountancy
**4**
**Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**
Accruals|**2020**
**2020**
**2019**
**£**
**£**
**£**
10,000
10,000
-
94,459
94,459
47,322
104,459
104,459
22,022
**2020**
**2020**
**2019**
**£**
**£**
**£**
71,736
71,736
21,792
3,348
3,348
7,100
9,400
9,400
8,900
190
190
2,459
1,696
1,696
3,724
86,370
86,370
43,975
70
70
44
15,000
15,000
-
582
582
510
15,652
15,652
554
**2020**
**2019**
**£**
**£**
1,150
568
1,150
568
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Total funds**|**2020**
**2020**
**2019**
**£**
**£**
**£**
10,000
10,000
-
94,459
94,459
47,322
104,459
104,459
22,022
**2020**
**2020**
**2019**
**£**
**£**
**£**
71,736
71,736
21,792
3,348
3,348
7,100
9,400
9,400
8,900
190
190
2,459
1,696
1,696
3,724
86,370
86,370
43,975
70
70
44
15,000
15,000
-
582
582
510
15,652
15,652
554
**2020**
**2019**
**£**
**£**
1,150
568
1,150
568
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Total funds**|
|---|---|---|
|||22,022|
|||**2019**
**£**
21,792
7,100
8,900
2,459
3,724|
|||43,975|
|||44
-
510|
|||554|
|||**2019**
**£**
568|
|||568|
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## **Igloo Artists Limited Notes to the Accounts**
## **for the year ended 30 November 2020**
|**5**
**Analysis of the Net movement in funds**
At 1 December 2019
Net movement in funds from Statement of Financial Activities
At 30 November 2020
**4**
**Related party transactions**|**2020**
**£**
5,042
2,437|
|---|---|
||7,479|
|||
There were no related party transactions during the year.
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## **Igloo Artists Limited Detailed profit and loss account for the year ended 30 November 2020**
_This schedule does not form part of the statutory accounts_
|**Sales**
Cost of sales
**Gross proft**
Administrative expenses
**Operating (loss)/proft**
**(Loss)/proft before tax**|**2020**
**£**
94,459
75,864
18,595
26,158
(7,563)
(7,563)|**2019**
**£**
47,322
28,892|
|---|---|---|
|||18,430
15,637|
|||2,793|
|||2,793|
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## **Igloo Artists Limited**
## **Detailed profit and loss account for the year ended 30 November 2020**
_This schedule does not form part of the statutory accounts_
|**Sales**
Sales
**Cost of sales**
Artist Fees
Production costs
Commisions
**Administrative expenses**
Employee costs:
Directors' salaries
Travel and subsistence
Premises costs:
Rent
Light and heat
General administrative expenses:
Telephone and fax
Stationery and printing
Bank charges
Insurance
Equipment expensed
Sundry expenses
Legal and professional costs:
Accountancy fees
**Other operating income**
Other operating income|**2020**
**£**
94,459
71,736
3,348
780
75,864
9,400
190
9,590
15,000
503
15,503
-
-
70
377
-
36
483
582
582
26,158
10,000|**2019**
**£**
47,322|
|---|---|---|
|||21,792
7,100
-|
|||28,892|
|||8,900
2,459|
|||11,359|
|||-
-|
|||-|
|||1,337
311
44
624
1,452
-|
|||3,768|
|||510|
|||510|
||||
|||15,637|
|||-|
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