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.
Recent correspondents have made some very valid points regarding unpaid public art commissions.
For this double issue Reviews has a special focus on art in the public realm.
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.
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.
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).
I would like to add these comments to the discussion on unpaid public art competitions (a-n Magazine, April).
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.
As a precursor to the Waterfront Public Art Strategy, Halton Borough Council commissioned artists’ residencies within the Widnes Waterfront Economic Development Zone in 2007.
We are self-employed sculptors with wide experience making artworks for the public realm.
Information on the Cecil Collins Memorial Award for students.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Public art is the opportunity for an artist to affect a locality, and to engage and challenge its community.
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.
Four South East England artists won awards in March, to enable them to undertake new public art projects.
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 […]
It would seem that politics has taken centre stage in contemporary art.
Raphael Daden’s light work for the centre of Barking forms part of a regeneration programme that anticipates the 2012 Olympics in East London.
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.
Gillian Nicol explores the nature of collaborative and creative processes involved in making artwork in the public realm.
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 […]
One of the main tendencies in public space has been to minimise risk – providing mini-cities in which risk has been all but removed.
