Resource
Archive
Feature
Art in unconventional settings
Public art projects, residencies and commissions in non-gallery spaces.
You searched for commissions - Page 4 of 14 - a-n The Artists Information Company
Resource
Archive
Feature
Big picture – 2010 May
Francis Thorburn
Mobile Picnic Pavilion
Resource
Archive
Feature
Healing words
At the beginning of March this year, the Arts Council of Wales hosted ‘Arts in Health and Well-being’, a conference about prevention, intervention and creative action in healthcare.
Resource
Archive
News archive
Transforming a city
Startling architectural interventions, large-scale touring exhibitions and ambitious commissions will transform the city of Norwich 7-22 May through Norfolk & Norwich Festival (NNF10) as it presents its first ever visual arts programme.
Resource
Archive
Feature
Crop Marks
Artist Kirsten Lavers and Andy O’Hanlon (Arts Development Officer for South Cambridgeshire District Council) talk about Kirsten’s appointment as community artist for Orchard Park, which led to the ambitious multi-layered collaborative project, Crop Marks.
Resource
Archive
Discussion
Editorial – 2010 April
Antony Gormley’s One and Other commission for the Fourth Plinth last year, and more recently Michael Landy’s Art Bin project at South London Gallery both suggest the emergence of a new form of artwork that has the capacity to engage mass audiences directly.
Resource
Archive
Feature
Cultivate and celebrate: treasures of the kitchen garden
Artist Christine Wilcox-Baker recounts her residency at Tatton Park with Gardens Manager Sam Youd.
Resource
Archive
News archive
Bites from the blogs
This month’s Bites.
Resource
Archive
Feature
northcabin
Aldo Rinaldi and Katherine Daley-Yates discuss northcabin, a programme of site-specific commissions in an unusual venue in Bristol from 2008-09.
Resource
Archive
Feature
Commissioning for the future
Exploring selected public realm interventions from across the UK.
Resource
Archive
Feature
On the cover – 2010 February
Toby Paterson, Black Axonometric 1, 2006.
Resource
Archive
Feature
Money matters
A selection of articles and other content dealing with artists’ income:
Resource
Archive
Feature
Commissioning now
This month we take a look at some current projects in the world of commissions, from innovative works in the public realm to those in a gallery interpretation programme and performing artists’ film and video.
Resource
Archive
News archive
Celebrating disabilty
As part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, the Unlimited programme is designed to celebrate disability, arts, culture and sport “on an unprecedented scale”.
Resource
Archive
News archive
Making a place
Transformation of Arbury Park into an integrated urban development the size of a small town and the intentions and approaches behind it is the subject of a new publication from Commissions East.
Resource
Archive
News archive
This is Wunderbar
Wunderbar is “a dynamic new festival of contemporary performances, visual art, and extraordinary happenings for North East England that places the audience at the heart of the experience”.
Resource
Archive
Feature
North Elevation
Artist Rona Smith, public art consultant Vivien Lovell and architect Soraya Khan discuss the development of Rona’s ambitious North Elevation work which was permanently installed at Lumen United Reform Church last year.
Resource
Archive
News archive
Hinterland
Hinterland curator Jennie Syson says this year’s commissions “will present a cycle-powered cinema, trees grown from books, tasty opportunities to eat the local plant life and a chance to do a spot of bird watching whilst appreciating areas of natural beauty within the city and beyond”.
Resource
Archive
Feature
Victoria baths
Alison Kershaw and Gill Wright recount the developments that brought art to a unique Grade II* listed building in Manchester.
Resource
Archive
News archive
Seaside special
As Turner Contemporary closes the doors at its temporary project space on Margate High Street in order to prepare for the opening of its David Chipperfield-designed building in 2011, two artist-run arts organisations in the town have received backing to maintain their programmes through this winter and next spring.
Resource
Archive
News archive
1479 china plates
As part of a public art programme of temporary and permanent commissions in Combe Down village near Bath, Chris Tipping has created a map made from 788 Bone China dinner plates.
Resource
Archive
News archive
Independent State Needs You
Opportunities abound for involvement in Independent State, an ambitious participatory project sited in Frome.
Resource
Archive
News archive
Artists and the recession
Artists in their hundreds across the US responded to a request on the New York Times website asking them how the economy is affecting their lives and work.
Resource
Archive
News archive
Multiple birthday
To celebrate its ten-year anniversary The Multiple Store has announced a new six-month residency at Westbrook Gallery, London.
Resource
Archive
Feature
Publicly sited
The most versatile of artforms, art in the public realm includes permanent works as well as temporary installations and architectural manifestations. The appetite for such work has been enhanced through the Big Art Project that enabled communities themselves to make the running for art projects and nurtured their ambitions and narratives over four years. A record one million viewers were attracted to the resulting Channel 4 programmes broadcast in May.
