Kate Baden Fuller’s stained glass commission for the Outpatients area of London’s Charing Cross Hospital was unveiled in April. Comprising two screens, the work acts as an interface between the semi-public corridor area and the semi-private waiting area. “The theme […]
A partnership between Staffordshire County Council Arts Service and the Library Service resulted in the launch in February of a new state of the art mobile library with artist-designed exteriors. As a result of an open submission from West Midlands […]
Now in its third year, Art At The Centre enlists artists to work within city-centre developments, Rosemary Shirley investigates.
Su Jones explores Anna Best’s 2001 National Media residency for Year of the Artist here at a-n The Artists’ Information Company.
Jane Watt profiles Grizedale Arts, its residency programme and focus on research and process-based work that encourages interaction with the physical and social environment.
Brigid Howarth takes an in-depth look at the career path of sculptor and new-media artist Ben Coode-Adams, who makes his living from public and private commissions.
Roddy Lumsden talks to artist Joshua Sofaer about the differences between performance and live art, audiences, and finding funding.
Paul Moss profiles Tanya Axford and discusses the strategies she has employed to maintain her practice.
A new commission from Julian Opie has launched redevelopment of the West Wing at Barts as a national Breast Care Centre of Excellence. Architects Greenhill Jenner’s proposal will create a contemporary, state-of-the-art medical facility with strong ‘patient appeal’ whilst celebrating […]
A two-year residency in Swindon by Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio launched last November recently presented the outcome of its first phase. Commissioned by the Asda Wal-Mart supermarket and managed by public art agency Artpoint, the residency aims to celebrate […]
In 2001 Lorna Green took part in projects in Austria and Korea that had been organised by the Artists in Nature International Network (AiNIN), a web-based organisation for artists, musicians and writers who work site-specifically with and in nature.
As part of environmental improvements to the Clyde and Rutherglen, Joseph Ingelby was commissioned by South Lanarkshire Council to make a sculpture at Dalmarnock Bridge. Made in galvanised steel and copper, Slipstream takes its inspiration from nautical, navigational and natural […]
North Yorkshire-based Chrysalis Arts recently got a boost to its development programme from the Development Fund for Rural Renewal. A £219,500 grant will enable this public art and training organisation to expand its activities, including enhancement of its role as […]
Valerie Coffin Price reports on the annual ‘Sculpture by the Sea’ in Sydney.
Alison Wilding’s floating sculpture Ambit upped-anchor from Sunderland in September in preparation for a European tour. Widely-acclaimed by the art world as one of the most successful public artworks of recent years, the twenty-two-tonne work has been dogged with technical […]
Jose Ferreira introduces us to artists’ imaginative use of technology and its relationship to urban space.
I recently completed a public art commission for the new Library and Learning Centre at Leeds Metropolitan University.
“Whether by happy coincidence or some deeper spiritual calling, I found myself drawn back to Britain’s waterways earlier this year with a commission from Lea Rivers Trust.” For Samantha Haynes this public art project was an opportunity to counteract the […]
Eye-catching new digital artwork appeared last month at the former site of the ABC cinema in Commercial Road, Portsmouth. Over seventy young people from local groups including Hillside Youth Club, Paulsgrove Detached Youth Group and the Freedom Café worked together […]
Bridgwater Docks, Somerset
3, 4 and 5 May
The latest commission for Compton Verney in Warwickshire, John Kippin’s ‘Beauty, Harmony, Truth: navigating the English country house’ documents the impact of political, social and economic change on the British landscape. His observations were exhibited from April-June on sets of […]
For artist Emma Baird Murray, Coed Hills Rural Artspace in South Wales has become a place of inspiration, a space where making art, sustainable living and community involvement go hand in hand. She describes how the organisation works with artists in a rural setting.
Over the last ten years I have been involved in a series of ambitious publicly sited projects that have been diverse, both in their physical appearance and their scale, whilst fulfilling various conceptual criteria.
Louise Crawford’s eight-month collaboration with architects Ian Alexander of McKeown Alexander explored issues central to redeveloping Glasgow’s Merchant City and Trongate, the home of arts organisations Transmission, Market, Glasgow Independent Studios, Street Level and Glasgow Print Studios. Entitled Fieldwork, the […]
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 […]
