Projects
Selected recent public art projects
Items over 3 months old can be found in the projects archive
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HOUSE 2012
HOUSE is Brighton & Hove's curated and programmed visual arts festival. Returning for its fourth year, HOUSE 2012 is working with contemporary artist David Batchelor.
Date uploaded: May 21, 2012
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De Meent: liberating space through purchase
SKOR's new project - 'De Meent: liberating space through purchase' - opens on 13th May 2012 in Amsterdam.
Date uploaded: May 14, 2012
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Steve Geliot - TREECYCLE
Steve Geliot’s artwork commissioned by Southampton City Council for their new recycling centre.
Date uploaded: May 14, 2012
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Sea Strata by John Maine, Art on the Underground
Sea Strata is a new work of art for Green Park Underground station, commissioned by Art on the Underground, by Royal Academician John Maine.
Date uploaded: May 9, 2012
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Road for the Future
Three new temporary art commissions will be presented on Powerstock Common, a remote Nature Reserve near Bridport on Sunday 3rd June, 11am – 4pm, as part of Road For The Future, an ambitious artist-run project in rural West Dorset.
Date uploaded: May 9, 2012
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Tatton Park Biennial 2012: Flights of Fancy
Tatton Park Biennial: Flights of Fancy opens to the public on 12 May and runs through the summer until 30 September, 2012. This third edition of the Biennial considers the human urge to fly, to accomplish the impossible in fragile times. Its artists are considering the impact of experimentation on delicate eco-systems, looking backward and forward for guidance, wisdom and/or humour. Their proposed results are experiments in time and space.
Date uploaded: May 2, 2012
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Art on the Underground: Who is Community? Bob and Roberta Smith and Tim Newton
Who is Community? is a new film commission by artist Bob and Roberta Smith and Director Tim Newton, as part of the Central line series.
Date uploaded: April 30, 2012
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ART vs REHAB: Focus Group Series: June 2012
If you are working creatively within addiction, the criminal justice system, homelessness, mental health or prevention, you are invited to apply to be part of ART vs REHAB - a series of focus groups on key themes affecting the relationship between art and rehabilitation.
Date uploaded: April 30, 2012
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Teresa Margolles Exhibition
Teresa Margolles’ new work has been made exclusively for the new GSS galleries and is co-commissioned with Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. It involves an Offsite space, and a Collaborative Performance.
Date uploaded: April 25, 2012
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W.A.M.A.: The Work as Movement Archive
Artist Serena Korda's new public artwork, W.A.M.A.: The Work as Movement Archive, will be launching in Barton Hill, Bristol, on 12th May 2012.
Date uploaded: April 25, 2012
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TRACK announces the first projects!
TRACK is an art experience, initiated by the S.M.A.K., taking place in the public and semi public space of the city of Ghent, Belgium.
Date uploaded: April 18, 2012
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Walter Jack Studio's Crushed Wall
Walter Jack's Crushed Wall is a 25-metre-long by three-metre-high concrete retaining wall sited at the entrance to the Heartland’s project in Redruth, Cornwall.
Date uploaded: April 16, 2012
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Andy Scott: The Kelpies, Helix Project, Scotland
As part of the £41 million Helix Project in Scotland, two 30-metre high horses heads or Kelpies, the name for a mythical Scottish water horse, are being created by sculptor, Andy Scott.
Date uploaded: April 16, 2012
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Robert Koenig’s Odyssey
Robert Koenig’s Odyssey will be on display at St Martins-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London from 19th March until 20th July 2012.
Date uploaded: April 16, 2012
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Caro at Chatsworth
The Chatsworth House Trust and the New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park, present Caro at Chatsworth from 28th March - 1st July 2012
Date uploaded: April 16, 2012
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Orbit - Public Artwork to commemorate the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games
The 377-foot ArcelorMittal Orbit - by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond - the piece of public art intended as a permanent legacy of London’s hosting of the 2012 Olympics.
Date uploaded: April 16, 2012
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Symposium: The Social Impact of Artist Residencies
CUBE is delighted to announce in association with Buddleia: Symposium: The Social Impact of Artist Residencies.
Date uploaded: April 4, 2012
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Menai Singing Bridge
The current season of Bangor Sound City concludes with a series of events bringing the Menai Suspension Bridge alive.
Date uploaded: April 4, 2012
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Valentines Mansion & Gardens Jubilee Commission
Work started last week on the new Dry Garden at Valentines Mansion - a contemporary space created in celebration of The Queen’s forthcoming visit to the mansion.
Date uploaded: April 4, 2012
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The Making of Cave: A new public artwork for Milton Keynes
This April, MK Gallery’s Project Space presents The making of Cave, a new public art work for Milton Keynes.
Date uploaded: April 4, 2012
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The Function of the Oblique – Part 1 – Resistance
'The function of the oblique' is a group show and programme of events taking inspiration from Virilio's "function of the oblique" as a tool to appropriate space in new ways and create instability or unexpected outputs.
Date uploaded: April 4, 2012
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Garden of Reason, a season of contemporary art
Trust New Art is the National Trust’s art and craft programme taking place at selected historic houses, countryside and garden properties across England.
Date uploaded: April 4, 2012
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Bus-Tops launches in London
Bus-Tops is a digital art project that has been rolled out to 30 bus shelters in 20 boroughs across London.
Date uploaded: April 2, 2012
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Jeremy Deller - Sacrilege
Jeremy Deller presents his first major public project in Scotland: an interactive public artwork to be situated on Glasgow Green for the duration of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012.
Date uploaded: April 2, 2012
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~Flow, by Owl Project and Ed Carter
~Flow, by Owl Project and Ed Carter, is a tidemill - a floating building on the River Tyne that generates its own power using a tidal water wheel has just been launched.
Date uploaded: April 2, 2012
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Updates on TERRA at Grizedale Forest
Update on Jerwood Visual Arts' exhibition TERRA at Grizedale Forest.
Date uploaded: April 2, 2012
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QR codes, smartphones and art: White City
QR codes, smartphones and art take Tube users on a virtual journey at White City Underground station.
Date uploaded: April 2, 2012
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Elasticised waistbands arrive at Notting Hill Gate Tube station
A new artwork called 'Hard Metal Body' by artist Alice Channer, commissioned by Art on the Underground, will be displayed along the length of the escalators at Notting Hill Gate Tube.
Date uploaded: April 2, 2012
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MEANDERTHON - a free event celebrating Slow Art Day
Dedicated and/or insomniac art lovers are needed to watch a 24-hour film of people walking, running and cycling through the Yorkshire Dales.
Date uploaded: April 2, 2012
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Florence Peake: New performance at Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Florence Peake presents MAKE, a new performance inspired by behind-the-scenes activity at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, taking an irreverent look at how sculpture is created, displayed and maintained.
Date uploaded: March 21, 2012
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Martynas Gaubas: The Emigration: 4th March - 24th April 2012
Lithuanian artist Martynas Gaubas presents his artwork 'The Emigration' in Bishop's Square, Spitalfields, curated by C-LAB.
Date uploaded: March 21, 2012
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UP Projects: Secret Garden Project: Common Knowledge with Jacques Nimki
UP Projects have announced a new commission with artist Jacques Nimki for Tooting Common in Wandsworth as part of their ongoing Secret Garden Project.
Date uploaded: March 21, 2012
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Garden of Reason, Ham House and Garden, Richmond, London
Nine contemporary artists have been invited to make new work inspired by the unique 17th-century formal gardens of Ham House and their owner, Elizabeth Dysart, Duchess of Lauderdale.
Date uploaded: March 12, 2012
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Artists in Residence at Croft Castle
During April, Strange Cargo will take up residence at Croft Castle, a National Trust property in Herefordshire.
Date uploaded: March 7, 2012
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Boulogne sur Mer Public Art Trail
Strange Cargo has been invited to France by Boulogne Town Council to create a public art trail this summer.
Date uploaded: March 7, 2012
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'Moving Sculpture In The Public Realm' works
CAAPO have commissioned 2 'Moving Sculpture In The Public Realm' works to take place in Cardiff City Centre on March 17th between 12-3pm.
Date uploaded: March 5, 2012
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Official Launch of ‘Minefield’ by Aideen Barry
An invitation to the Official Launch of ‘Minefield’ by Aideen Barry: a Public Art Commission by Mayo CoCo for Ballina Arts Centre.
Date uploaded: March 5, 2012
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Launch of ‘Hryre’, a major new public artwork at St John’s ruins, Chester
You are invited to the launch of ‘Hryre’, a major new public artwork at St John’s ruins, Chester.
Date uploaded: March 5, 2012
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Eastside Projects: After Dinner Shu Fa at Cricket Pavilion and Pacha Kuti X
Eastside Projects open two new exhibitions this month: Yangjiang Group's 'After Dinner Shu Fa at Cricket Pavilion' and David Rowan's 'Pacha Kuti X'.
Date uploaded: February 29, 2012
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Neville Gabie's TwelveSeventy
Neville Gabie - Artist in Residence on the Olympic Park during 2011 - will present his film TwelveSeventy over three nights
Date uploaded: February 27, 2012
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Edible Eastside
Edible Eastside is a visionary initiative to transform a derelict brownfield site into a vibrant and contemporary urban garden for people to learn to grow plants and food.
Date uploaded: February 27, 2012
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Still Walking: a first-of-its-kind walking festival in Birmingham
Still Walking, a first-of-its-kind walking festival in Birmingham by artist and historian Ben Waddington takes place between March 15th and April 1st 2012.
Date uploaded: February 27, 2012
