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The Peterhead Creative Communities Project

Biography: Sans façon

August 2006

www.sansfacon.co.uk

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Ongoing projects

2006

Urban Parterre, permanent public art commission, Bristol.

Lead artist, Peterhead, Scotland.

Contribution to the design implementation team, setting up an art strategy, commissioning of temporary and permanent artworks, organising an international conference about the role of artists in the built environment to discuss best practice.

Millennium Promenade, public art commission, Bristol.

Lead Artist, Building Schools for the Future programme, Durham.

Sidekick, Curating artists Craig Barrowman, Martine Myrup, Kevin Pollock for Sideshow, Nottingham.

Commissions

2005

Limelight, temporary installation for Radiance, Glasgow light festival.

PROJECT, regeneration proposal, art and landscape commission, Peterhead, Scotland.

You Are Here, temporary installation, National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

The distance between us, public art commission, Birmingham.

Series of installation on billboards and hoardings, photographing aspects of a changing place and positioning the pictures on the exact location where the images have been taken, capturing and preserving elements of the city to represent a moment in history.

Parks & People, public art commission, Newcastle.

Research and proposal into urban vegetation and the social use and function of public parks.

2004

Depósito elevado, temporary installation for Madrid Abierto.

Covering a 1940’s concrete water tank with vinyl mirrors, transforming a banal urban object into an event.

Cultivated wilderness, permanent installation, Glasgow.

Re-use of one of the last traces of the Gorbals as an expansion to the brief of a barrier.

In collaboration with Matt Baker.

Viewing Platforms, permanent installations, Devon.

A series of interventions in a wetland area, playing with the different experiences and senses involved across the site.

2003

Sea view, temporary installations, Tyne & Wear.

Taking on tour the experience of Fish Quay through drive-in cinema and sound piece in 5 sites across the Tyne and Wear area.

2002

Private view, temporary installation, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland.

Arrangement of everyday elements in the gallery space to bring a sense of place from Dun Laoghaire seaside.

En passant, temporary installation, Sacy-le-petit, France.

3 installations exploring the sense of place of a 1700s village mansion usually closed off from the public.

2001

Stirring The City, curation and design of exhibition, The lighthouse, Glasgow.

Launching the Gorbals Artworks Programme.

2000

Samples, documentation and temporary installation, Glasgow.

200 random 15x15cm samples of everyday surfaces collected in the flats and shops of a 1960s estate previous to demolition.

Projects & competitions

2005

Sand Garden, International Garden festival, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France.

2005

Kielder Observatory, RIBA Art & Architecture competition, Northumberland.

2004

True stories, Installation/set design.

Work exploring the relation between stories and people.

In collaboration with Nick Bone, Magnetic North Theatre company.

Weeds

Research about unwanted urban vegetation.

2004

Terra Incognita, temporary installation, Glasgow.

Research and design of an alternative audio guide to walk through an everyday city transformed by a series of new sound environments and through uncommon routes.

A Millennium Award from the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.

Glasgow Landscape, map, Glasgow.

Mapping of Glasgow city centre using topographical language, showing the city as a volume and thus changing the hierarchy of urban reading.

2001

Desire lines, map, Glasgow.

Mapping of the desire lines in Queen Elizabeth square, in the Gorbals, recording an unofficial public space before another tabula rasa.

Views of the West Coast of Scotland, temporary installations, Argyle and Bute, Scotland.

A series of light installations in response to the setting of the residency in a National park and set between 2 military bases.

Rabin Peace Square, architecture and urban competition, Tel Aviv, Israel.

A public square as a place of trust, a void of collective security to testify a desire.

In collaboration with Rolf Demmler & Ulysses Sengupta.

2000

Europan 6, architecture and urban competition, Manchester.

Regeneration of 1960’s estate: inversion of the existing hierarchy by turning the structures of tower blocks into public spaces and densifying the horizontal domestic scale.

In collaboration with Rolf Demmler & Ulysses Sengupta.

Shed, temporary installation, Glasgow.

Transplantation of a railway shed along the Settle-Carlisle Railway- formerly used as workers halts, now disused and unclaimed - , in front of the Glasgow School of Art

1999

Détournements, research and digital images

Research on the residual spaces along and under motorway structures.

Exhibitions

2002

Private view, solo exhibition, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland.

En passant, solo exhibition, Sacy-le-Petit, France.

Traces, group exhibition, RK Burt, London.

2001

“CATS” Dundee Contemporary Arts, group exhibition, Dundee.

Stirring the City, group exhibition, The Lighthouse, Glasgow.

2000

Royal Scottish Academy, group exhibition, Edinburgh.

1999

Clear @ Home, group exhibition, Glasgow.

Publications and catalogues

2005

The distance between us, catalogue.

Without touching the Ground, catalogue for Viewing Platforms.

2004

Glasgow Landscape, topographic map of Glasgow. Essay by Ross Birrell.

La fabrique du lieu, by Jean Noël Blanc with Francis Nordemann. Photographic contribution.

2003

C.I.P. 02, catalogue. Essay by Gemma Tipton.

2002

En passant, catalogue. Essay by Paul Fournel, limited edition of 50.

2001

Views of the West Coast of Scotland, artist book. Produced by Book Lab™, assisted par Cove Park, essay by John Calcutt.

Sans façon, self published.

2000

Desire line, published by Glasgow School of Art, group publication.

Residencies

2004-05

LOCALE, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen.

2002

Sacy-Le-petit, Picardie.

2001-02

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Creative and Technical Skills Training Programme, Scotland.

2001

Cove Park, Outside the Box, Scotland.

Charles Blanc

Master in Architecture, Advanced Architectural Design, Strathclyde University, Glasgow

DPLG, Ecole d'Architecture de St Etienne, France.

Tristan Surtees

BA Hons, Glasgow School of Art.

HND, Leeds College of Art and Design.