Locws International have announced Liam Aitken and Rich White as the winners of its second annual Public Art Open Submission.
The two artists will receive commissions to make new work for the city of Swansea in 2015, Locws International’s 15th anniversary year. The artists will develop temporary public art works, either for Art Across The City (21 April – 1 June) or later in the year.
Aitken creates mixed-media sculptures, digital drawings and paintings of geometric patterns and has been a winner at the Nottingham Castle Open 2013 and exhibited at Syson, Nottingham. White makes site-responsive installation works and has recently exhibited at Cardiff’s g39 and Birmingham’s A3 Project Space.
Selected from a shortlist of ten artists by guest selectors Bob & Roberta Smith and Jane Simpson, in discussion with the Locws team, both selected artists will receive a £1000 fee and a budget up to £2500 to cover design, production, materials and installation, as well as agreed expenses.
Project manager Gordon Dalton said of the shortlist: “We were very impressed by the wide range of submitted proposals, who all approached the public realm in Swansea in inventive ways.”
Art Across the City currently has ten permanent artworks sited in Swansea by artists including Jeremy Deller, Bedwyr Williams, Pete Fowler and Sinta Tantra.
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