Barking Town Centre Artscape
Biography: Simon Watkinson
34 High Street
Gosforth
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE3 1LX
Tel: 0191 213 5665
Fax: 0191 226 8928
Mobile 07710 124 696
E-mail [email protected]
Selected Recent Projects & Awards
2005/6
Sudell Cross, Blackburn, Lighting Commission,
Blackburn and Darwen Borough Council, (in development)
“Turning Stones” Telephone House, Southampton, Linden Homes (in development)
Monmouth Welcome Centre, Design Team Member (with Alec French Architects), Monmouth, Artwork Wales/Monmouth County Council
Chantry Bridge, Design Team Member, Southampton, Southampton City Council
Panel Member, Southampton Urban Design Advisory Panel, Southampton City Council
Lead Artist, Barnstaple Town Centre Regeneration, PROJECT/NDDC/DDC
“Ice Harvest”, Abbey Road, Barking, London Borough of Barking & Dagenham
”Sweetheart Wings”, Sustrans, Art and the Travelling Landscape, Wansbeck
2003/4
Creative Team consultant, Art@thecentre Slough Borough Council
“Music Roll”, Grange Road, Middlesbrough, MTCC / Commissions North
“A show of Hands”, Princesshay, Exeter, Land Securities / SWPA
“Heat & Work”, Trinity Way, Salford, Salford City Council / CITE (Due for install October 2004)
“Departure Gate”, ProjectBlue1, Newcastle upon Tyne
“Parallel Plotter” Poole District Council/ Environment Agency Winner of Pride of Poole 2004 Award
“Haven”, Commission, Leicester Cultural Mapping Project, Leicester City Council
“Map”, 3D Sculptural map commission (in collaboration with Tod Hanson)
Grainger Town Partnership / Newcastle City Council
2002
“Ingekomen Stukken” exhibitor, Stroom, Den Haag, Netherlands
Encore 10 X 10 Award, Northern Arts
“Headcubes”, Monument Lighting Project, Newcastle upon Tyne (Newcastle City Council)
“Counterweight” Millennium Gala Theatre, Design Commission, Durham (Durham City)
2001/2
“Curtain Call”, Theatre Royal Lighting scheme, Newcastle upon Tyne (Newcastle City Council)
“Threshold / The Night has a thousand eyes”, Lighting projects, Bolton M.B.C.
2000/1
“Dumb Waiter” Sitooterie, Millennium Project, Belsay Hall, English Heritage
“Electrolyte 2” Interchange Centre, Commission, (Nexus / City of Sunderland)
“Diecase Matrices” Fakenham Town Centre Development (Commissions East / North Norfolk D.C.) Winner of 2001 Design Award BCSC
" Artist/Advisor, Public Art & Lighting Strategy, Newcastle upon Tyne
(Public Arts / Grainger Town Partnership)
1995 – 7
Participant at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (entire two year period), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Participant in Rem Koolhaas & OMA Masterclass, (Designing “Point City”) Berlage Institute
Tunnel Installation, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
Lift Installation, Pulitzer Hotel, Amsterdam
Rotterdam Kunststichting Award
Dutch Government Awards (NUFFIC) 1995 & 1996
“Turtle” Projects for Uni Dufour, Musee d'art & d'histoire, Geneva, ( StArt / Darier Hentsch & Cie. )
Further Experience
• Gordon Matta-Clark lecturer, Serpentine Gallery, London 1993
• Bartlett Travel Scholarship (2 month research period in Japan) 1991
• Northern Arts Artist's Award 1993
Referees
Matthew Jarratt, Head of Commissions North, at Arts Council (North East), Central Square, Forth Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PJ Tel 0191 255 8500
Chris Oldershaw, Executive Director, Tyne & Wear Partnership, c/o Strategic Support, Civic Centre,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8BN Tel 0191 2328520 ext 26759
Qualifications Ba Hons(Fine Art) 1st Class / Master of Fine Art
