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On the cover – 2008 July
Heather and Ivan Morison discuss their work I am sorry. Goodbye. as featured on the cover of this month’s a-n Magazine.
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Art outdoors
Publicly-funded arts organisations are exhorted to extend participation in the arts by getting more people actively engaged in off-site and public realm programmes. Alongside, those in the business world are increasingly aware of the advantages of bringing artists’ ideas into development and regeneration projects. Here we highlight selected projects happening over the summer within the wider public domain.
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Interview expenses
Recent correspondents have made some very valid points regarding unpaid public art commissions.
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Introducing art in the public realm
For this double issue Reviews has a special focus on art in the public realm.
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Fred Baier
Penny Jones profiles Fred Baier exploring the development of his career since the 1970s and commissions for an impressive range of private and public clients.
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Collaborative relationships
To preface a new ongoing series exploring relationships between artists and their collaborators, we asked some of today’s most interesting curators for insights into their practices.
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Unpaid public art competitions
I am writing to lend support to the ideas expressed in the letter How do other artists feel about unpaid public art competitions? (a-n Magazine, April).
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Unpaid public art competitions
I would like to add these comments to the discussion on unpaid public art competitions (a-n Magazine, April).
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The Institute of Psychoplasmics
The Somafree Institute of Psychoplasmics first appeared in David Cronenberg’s 1979 film The Brood, yet despite once suggesting that if he failed as a filmmaker he could always set up a real life Institute, its 21st Century emergence is not his own doing.
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Tea on view
As a precursor to the Waterfront Public Art Strategy, Halton Borough Council commissioned artists’ residencies within the Widnes Waterfront Economic Development Zone in 2007.
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How do other artists feel about unpaid public art competitions?
We are self-employed sculptors with wide experience making artworks for the public realm.
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Student competition
Information on the Cecil Collins Memorial Award for students.
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Art in the public realm
Exploring the roles and reasons of selected organisations dedicated to widening access to the visual arts through commissioning temporary and permanent interventions in non-gallery spaces in the first of a two-part feature.
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Liverpool biennial
Liverpool Biennial was recognised with an award for ‘Putting the North West on the Map’ at the region’s Art 07 awards in October. The award acknowledges its success in commissioning international artists to make challenging work in Liverpool.
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Taking the lead
Julia Manheim was appointed lead artist by West Sussex County Council to explore how art might be incorporated into the fabric of new school buildings in Crawley.
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Public art and planning
Public art think tank ixia’s recent review of public art and planning in England revealed that, through the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), the government is considering changes to the planning system.
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Open space
Public art is the opportunity for an artist to affect a locality, and to engage and challenge its community.
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Blue well
Commissioned through the Creative Lewisham Agency for University Hospital Lewisham, London, Chris Marshall’s recently installed Blue Well aims to evoke tranquillity, calm and meditation within the context of a sensitive and critical environment.
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Art in public
Four South East England artists won awards in March, to enable them to undertake new public art projects.
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Art in public
Sculptor Andrew Sabin is presenting new work in an exhibition now showing at Canary Wharf’s Jubilee Park. Previous public realm projects include being lead artist on the Sustrans’ Wandle Trail in Surrey and commissioned artist in Canterbury City Council’s Horsebridge […]
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Radical positions
It would seem that politics has taken centre stage in contemporary art.
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Lightwaves installed
Raphael Daden’s light work for the centre of Barking forms part of a regeneration programme that anticipates the 2012 Olympics in East London.
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Remember What Jack Said
The current interest in artist/architect collaborations seems to date back to the late 1970s when architect Richard Hobbs invited artists into the design process for the Viewlands-Hoffman electrical substation in Seattle.
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Playing up
Gillian Nicol explores the nature of collaborative and creative processes involved in making artwork in the public realm.
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Playing up
Focusing on public art, a-n Editor Gillian Nicol has selected key texts from a-n’s archive and other important sources. Her introductory essay explores the nature of collaborative and creative processes involved in making artwork in the public realm. It identifies […]