At Chelmsford, a fibreglass cartoon dog cleans up after a party whilst its owners have been at work. Colchester steps back in time with 1950s style posters of exotic travel. Passengers are caught up in a wild west shoot-out between […]
South Pier and Claremont Pier, Lowestoft.
Permanent Installation
A collaboration between Steve Hines and Nexus generated a temporary public artwork focused around optimism. Sited on the Cullercoats Metro station on the coast-to-Newcastle line, Faith, hope and charity aimed to bring a feeling of warmth and love during the […]
Angharad Pearce Jones, an artist currently working with Cywaith Cymru.Artworks Wales explains how the organisation works to promote art in the public realm.
In September 2001, Hartlepool Borough Council advertised the post of ‘Environmental Improvements and Art Link Officer’. Guy Rawlinson explains how the project is progressing after the appointment of two artists to the post. The Headland, Hartlepool is undergoing a major […]
High Street, West Bromwich and Limited Edition CD 23 November – 19 December
When Lesley Davy’s commission to create an artwork for the Economist Plaza faced a technical problem in its realisation, sponsorship from graphics company Halo Digital came to the rescue. For Urban Scan, which involved using the architecture of the Economist […]
Two years ago artist Betsy Tyler Bell invited a group of English artists to live and work in her house in southern France. Participating artist Helen Ganly, describes how last summer’s project culminated in a successful month-long exhibition.
As part of the Year of the Artist programme, Michael Pinsky was in residence in the Town Planning Department of Chelmsford Borough Council earlier this year. Unusually perhaps for a local authority residency, his brief was to offer radical and […]
Glasgow’s Gorbals has over the last 100 years, for both good and bad, become engraved on world consciousness. As the third major redevelopment of the area in less than a century again changes the geographic and social profile of this […]
September saw realisation of two public art commissions involving artist Peter Fink. In Edinburgh, the second phase of his artwork for the Fruitmarket Gallery was officially switched on. A light pavement running the length of the gallery façade, it completes […]
Roxane Permar considers a selection of the projects discussed at a recent conference, exploring what they tell us about current trends in public art commissioning.
Rick Faulkner, artist and director of Chrysalis Arts, outlines the international ‘Artists in Transition’ project and how it adapted to the change in circumstances imposed by the outbreak of Foot and Mouth.
There is a long history of placing contemporary art in remote and rural locations as a method of encouraging tourism. The sculpture trail is now an established form of presentation. Here, Victoria Bernie – an artist based in Edinburgh – describes her participation in a small-scale project in Sweden and Public Art Officer Piers Masterson gives his view on the history and public reception of a much larger project spread across northern Norway.
An unusual work of art was seen over the Cardiff Bay in June when artists Hana Sakuma and Adrian Holme created ‘Sky Map’ to coincide with the official opening of Cardiff Bay barrage. The work was commissioned by PLACE, which […]
Contemporary re-enactment, art event or memorial? David Butler gives an insider account of Jeremy Deller’s ambitious Artangel Times commission.
Directors and committee members of The Landscape and Art Network expand on the cross-disciplinary nature of the organisation and its remit to defend and improve our environment.
My creative output ranges from figurative sculpture to furniture design, and I enjoy being more than just one kind of artist.
In the run-up to the re-opening of Compton Verney in 2003, an ambitious programme of events, projects and exhibitions is taking place from 21 July to 5 August. This provides opportunity for artists to make new work in response to […]
Wakefield Museum, Wakefield
Beermats designed by five Derby artists were launched in May with a special Year of the Artist Ale. The limited-edition mats now available in bars, cafes, pubs and restaurants and in arts venues around the East Midlands region have been […]
A major new glass and water feature has recently been unveiled at Cardiff’s Bute Square. The work by David Pearl and Amber Hiscott uses the most advanced of the new generation of glass enamels and a highly engineered lightweight stainless […]
Amongst other more prosaic activities, travelling on a tram provides time to dream and if you’re unlucky, to lose things. As part of the Year of the Artist, three northwest artists have created new works which explores the experience, for […]
Window Sills is neither public art nor community art. It uses collaborative strategies that draw on and sit between a number of artistic practices taking its lead from ‘New Genre Public Art’ – a term used by American artist Suzanne Lacy – which incorporates activist arts, site-specific art, performance art and happenings. The project is also aligned to ideas about art and context developed in universities in the UK.
COSTA RICA’S National Gallery was the recent venue for a temporary installation by US artist Doug Fishbone – temporary because the mound of some 40,000 bananas was literally devoured by the public and vanished within a few hours. Installed in […]
