On 17th May 2011 Knowle West Media Centre in Bristol, UK (one of the Arts Council's new National Portfolio Organisations) hosted the launch of The Manual: A Public Art Strategy for Knowle West.
To download a copy of the strategy, visit:
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Web project by Simon Faithfull
Limbo makes this entire back-catalogue of drawings available, and presents new sketches live to the user, the moment that they are made. This digital, instantaneous platform mirrors the process by which Faithfull makes the drawings. The work also creates a personal atlas of the world, mapping time and space, as experienced by one individual, on an ongoing basis.
The works are both curiously old fashioned and up-to-date at the same time.
Daniel Buren artwork to be installed at Tottenham Court Road Tube Station
As part of the £1 billion expansion of Tottenham Court Road tube station in London, Transport for London have commissioned French artist Daniel Buren (b.1938) to create a new permanent installation, expected to be in place by 2016.
The artwork consists of a colourful series of diamond and circle shapes that will cover the internal glass walls of the station. The work will become a major feature of the station's new entrance hall, which accommodates some 200,000 commuters and tourists a day. Transparent versions of the work will serve to section off the ticket areas. Buren is also designing a sculpture of the shapes for the station's ticket hall, which will be displayed behind glass.
London has become well known for its Art on the Underground programme, which has included previous commissions by Bill Fontana, Liam Gillick, Eva Rothschild, Jeremy Deller, Richard Woods, Mark Wallinger, David Batchelor and Barbara Kruger to name but a few.
To read the Art Newspaper article about the Buren project, including quotes from Buren, visit:
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Buren-brightens-up-underground/23950
Thursday, 26 May 2011
New Jem Finer project launches Stour Valley Arts' new gallery space
'Still' by Jem Finer. Photo © Jem Finer
Stour Valley Arts in Kent have commissioned 'Still', a new artwork by Jem Finer to celebrate the opening of their new gallery in Ashford town centre. The artwork will be launched at the gallery on 11th June and will remain on display until 26 July 2011.
Jem Finer is renowned for his spectacular Artangel commission 'Longplayer' a one thousand year long musical composition and his triple award winning 'Score for a Hole in the Ground' at Stour Valley Arts, a work that relied exclusively on gravity and weather to create an endless score. Jem was also one of the founding members of The Pogues.
Following the success of 'Score for a Hole in the Ground', SVA is proud to present this new work resulting from Finer's further exploration of King's Wood. Taking advantage of the remote forest setting, Finer hid a solar-powered camera within a tree for a full year - a passive observer, recording all that passed before its lens. Finer then designed computer software to continually re-order the 18,000 captured photographs. This generative sequencing system means that the flow of time is continuously being stretched and compressed, ebbing and flowing. Between dawn and dusk the viewer is as likely to witness the passing of a single day as the turning of a full year's seasons.
In 'Still', Jem Finer has created a new form lying somewhere between photography and film - a still image in a state of constant flux. We see the same view through the seasons, through rain, shine, day and night. What seems static is actually an endless series of transitions both subtle and dramatic. No two viewings of the work are ever the same, as the film is continually finding new and different paths through the days, weeks and months.
'Still' reveals Finer's interest in designing intricate programs and complex structures that enable an interface with the macro, the cosmological and the infinite.
About Stour Valley Arts
Stour Valley Arts in Kent is recognised as one of the leading commissioning agencies for site specific contemporary art in the UK. It was established in 1994 and quickly gained an international reputation for showing exciting new contemporary art works within a forest setting.
The organisation is situated in the King's Wood, a 1500-acre forest and designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in Challock, Kent. The ancient woodland, was historically a royal hunting forest, and although a large herd of fallow deer still inhabit the place, it is now better known for housing important art works that are visited by thousands of people every year.
Gallery Expansion
The success of the organisation means it is now able to expand and to have a visible presence outside of the forest. The new gallery space will act as a fulcrum or focal point for the organisation playing a central role in highlighting the work of SVA at King's Wood. As well as a being a nerve centre and communication hub for the organisation, the new gallery space in Ashford underscores and cements the relationship it already has with the town. The gallery will provide a gateway to the organisation's natural home, King's Wood.
Stour Valley Arts Gallery is located 5 minutes from Ashford International Station with High Speed connection from London St. Pancras and connections from Charing Cross, Victoria, Brighton and Margate.
A fleet of high speed trains means that Ashford is just 37 minutes from St Pancras International, parts of East Kent are now effectively closer to the West End than some areas of outer London.
Contact Details
Stour Valley Arts Gallery, Elwick Road, Ashford, Kent TN23 1NR. Gallery opening hours, Wednesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
Launch Event Saturday 11 June 2011, 11am-2pm
Stour Valley Arts in Kent is recognised as one of the leading commissioning agencies for site specific contemporary art in the UK. It was established in 1994 and quickly gained an international reputation for showing exciting new contemporary art works within a forest setting.
The organisation is situated in the King's Wood, a 1500-acre forest and designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in Challock, Kent. The ancient woodland, was historically a royal hunting forest, and although a large herd of fallow deer still inhabit the place, it is now better known for housing important art works that are visited by thousands of people every year.
Gallery Expansion
The success of the organisation means it is now able to expand and to have a visible presence outside of the forest. The new gallery space will act as a fulcrum or focal point for the organisation playing a central role in highlighting the work of SVA at King's Wood. As well as a being a nerve centre and communication hub for the organisation, the new gallery space in Ashford underscores and cements the relationship it already has with the town. The gallery will provide a gateway to the organisation's natural home, King's Wood.
Stour Valley Arts Gallery is located 5 minutes from Ashford International Station with High Speed connection from London St. Pancras and connections from Charing Cross, Victoria, Brighton and Margate.
A fleet of high speed trains means that Ashford is just 37 minutes from St Pancras International, parts of East Kent are now effectively closer to the West End than some areas of outer London.
Contact Details
Stour Valley Arts Gallery, Elwick Road, Ashford, Kent TN23 1NR. Gallery opening hours, Wednesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
Launch Event Saturday 11 June 2011, 11am-2pm
Channel Islands public art project
One of Andy Goldsworthy's Alderney Stones.
Photo: Chris George
Goldsworthy's work Alderney Stones consists of ten stones, each 180cm in diameter, weighing three tons and containing locally sourced materials. One work is sited in an old bunker (pictured above).
Cornelia Parker's proposal is for a conceptual artwork on Herm....
'As one would look to place a ‘string of pearls’ around the neck of a beautiful woman, Parker proposes to surround Sark with its own necklace. Cornelia Parker proposes to walk the cliff paths, taking with her a pearl necklace and at various vantage points around the island, of which there are many, she intends to ‘throw’ a pearl (stripped from a necklace) into the sea.
Effectively there will be ‘nothing’ to see but visitors using their mobile phones, will at the various locations around the island, be able to relive the moment that Parker actually threw the pearl over the cliff face.'
Gormley's sculpture is pictured below and follows the siting of a previous work by him at Castle Cornet in Guernsey between 2008 and 2010.
Another Time XI by Antony Gormley, sited on Herm.
Photo: Kevin Rushby
The Art and Islands Foundation behind the project is led by founding Director, artist and art teacher Eric Snell, who was born in Guernsey. Snell set up the first art school on Guernsey in 1994.
To read a travel article by Kevin Rushby about his visit to meet Andy Goldsworthy to discuss the project, visit:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/apr/16/channel-islands-andy-goldsworthy-gormley
To find out more about the project, visit: www.artandislands.org
Matchmakers Wharf Public Art Commission advertised (budget £30k)
Matchmakers Wharf, currently under construction on the site of the Lesney Matchbox Toys Factory, is situated on the River Lee Navigation close to the Olympic Park and will consist of over 200 homes, offices, shops, commercial space and 49 purpose-designed artists' studios http://www.acme.org.uk/futurestudios.php to be owned and managed by Acme.
Block A of Matchmakers Wharf, Homerton, E9, which including the glass trapezoid, will include 49 purpose-built affordable studios for artists. http://www.acme.org.uk/images_cms/MAT%20Exterior%2003.jpg
Block A of Matchmakers Wharf, Homerton, E9, which including the glass trapezoid, will include 49 purpose-built affordable studios for artists.
The partners wish to commission a 'public artwork' which will be an imaginative response to the history of the site, and to the architecture and function of two (visually and / or conceptually) linked external 'locations' within the new development. The work at the first location will be at the entrance to the site and should make reference to the former Lesney Matchbox Toys Factory, once a major employer in the area, whose die-cast manufacturing included the world-famous Matchbox toys. This work should act as an introduction and signpost to a second location: a busy public pedestrian intersection just beyond the entrance.
The second location at ground level, approximately triangular in shape and close to the artists' studios, will naturally function as a meeting point for residents and visitors, and it is envisaged that the work may include seating and planting, and could be interactive and involve the use of lighting.
An understanding of the history of the original toys factory, its relationship with the people who worked there and the wider community, will be necessary to inform an appropriate response to the commission. It is envisaged that local people will be involved in some way in the research process and creative development of the work.
The 'work' (at both locations) will be expected to embrace the use of sustainable materials and construction techniques, be durable, and future running and maintenance costs should be low.
The value of the commission is a maximum of £30,000 (to include fee, material, fabrication and installation costs). A separate budget will cover the costs of associated site preparation and the integration / landscaping of the commissioned work into the site.
Selection of the proposal will be via a two-stage process, with artists submitting indicative proposals by 17 June 2011 from which three proposals will be funded for further development. Artists selected for the second stage will receive a fee of £500 and be required to submit their detailed proposals by 5 August 2011.
The selection panel will include representatives from Telford Homes Plc, Acme Studios, Stock Woolstencroft (architects) and Standerwick Land Design (landscape architects).
The work will be completed and launched in May 2012.
For more information on how to apply, please visit: http://www.acme.org.uk/matchmakers.php
Acme Artists Studios Limited 44 Copperfield Road, Bow, London E3 4RR
T 020 8981 6811 E mail@acme.org.uk W www.acme.org.uk
Bristol launches Public Art website
The public art programme has been active since the adoption of a Public Art Policy in 2000, and the development of a Public Art Strategy in 2003. To date over a hundred commissions have been produced in a wide range of settings.
You can find out more by visiting the website at www.aprb.co.uk
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