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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]