
Commissions news
Featuring artists’ projects and new ventures in the public realm.
Featuring artists’ projects and new ventures in the public realm.
A major initiative to install brand new public art sculptures at three Prestatyn locations looks a step closer to becoming a reality.
Jane Watt delves into the process of commissioning and looks at the organisations and bodies offering opportunities to artists at all stages of their careers. Fully updated for 2008.
I am writing in support of the letter by a large group of artists in a-n Magazine, April, addressing the problem of unpaid design work public art commissions.
Shisha will present new site-specific events for Manchester International Festivals Manchester Firsts, through commissions for international artists Subodh Gupta and Rashid Rana.
Filmmaker Clio Barnard and sculptor Roger Hiorns are winners of the new Jerwood/Artangel Commissions worth £1million, promoted last year through a-n.
Why is dyslexic such a hard word?
Toby Patersons commission for Glasgows Tramway has now been permanently installed.
Eight major commissioning opportunities for designer-makers, each worth up to £12,000, are available through Museumaker, a high-profile programme that aims to develop new relationships and new audiences for contemporary craft and museums. The programme has received substantial funding from the […]
Once we were Africans Black Arts Alliance has commissioned photographer Anthony Jones to photograph ten, black, multi-generational families living in the Greater Manchester area as part of Acts of Achievement, the north west of Englands annual celebration of Black History […]
Environmental regeneration agency Groundwork East Midlands is working with five nationally recognised artists to embed a more highly developed approach to arts commissioning. This project builds on a growing recognition within business and charitable sectors Groundworks main networks […]
Royal Aberdeen Childrens Hospital, Aberdeen
Permanent commissions
Fabrication started in February on the first of ten major artists’ commissions for the new Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. The commissions are part of Leading the Way, a three-year arts programme to enhance the new Gloucestershire Royal Hospital through integrated public […]
Greyworld’s Bins and Benches hi-tech artwork has been selected for permanent installation at The Junction. Other artists short-listed were Robin Blackledge, Susan Collins, Dalziel and Scullion, Clive Gillman and Mark Goulthorpe. In Greyworld’s vision, intelligent bins and benches roam the […]
International artists will feature in the refurbishment of Junction, Cambridge’s leading contemporary arts and entertainment venue. Proposals from shortlisted artists for public art projects have now created an interactive online virtual exhibition on www.junction.co.uk/publicart with the public invited to nominate […]
The scope and applications of art in the public realm continues to grow, with public commissions provided by private developers as well through community-based public programmes. In this month’s round-up, we highlight projects in Bristol, Manchester, Norwich and Blackburn.
As part of the recent Commonwealth Games in Manchester, Cultureshock commissioned contemporary visual artists to record, document and interpret this major event. As a result, the Singh Twins created a single narrative painting encompassing themes relating to the games, to […]
Artists are invited to submit work for exhibition alongside members of the Society of Wildlife Artists at the SWLA 62nd Annual Exhibition: The Natural Eye 2025
The LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award benefits seven artists with two years of support through rent-free studio space, professional development opportunities and a bursary.
I am both disappointed and frustrated not to have received an artists’ working grant (again). It would be fantastic to have the opportunity to live and work as an artist full-time for a year at least once. I thought that […]