Awards: Round Three, July 2005: PLACE, Blackfriars Bridge

PLACE
Blackfriars Bridge, London

Client
Hames Levack Foundation Ltd.

Artist
Ettie Spencer

Project partners
Building Design
ICA
Barbican
RIBA
Arup Engineering

PROJECT Award
Talking Artists Award £2,500

Value of design phase
£4,600

Estimated value of construction phase
To be confirmed.

Project description
HAMES LEVACK works with artists to realise ambitious ideas in the public realm. They are currently working with artist Ettie Spencer in creating an installation entitled PLACE on the vacant pillars next to Blackfriars Bridge near Tate Modern. The installation is scheduled for Autumn 2005 and will span the width of the Thames. RIBA architects, Works Architecture, and engineers, Arup, will carry out detailed design work. Studies on viability are already underway. PLACE will be supported by an accompanying publication, a talks programme at the ICA and various workshops and activities with local groups. Ettie Spencer is exhibiting a related installation entitled disPLACE in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh this summer. The use of the tent form as a visual metaphor is used in both installations by way of reference to issues associated with homelessness, refugee status and displacement. By providing the very minimum of shelter, a tent represents a skin which protects us from the harsh outer world. Central to the concept however, lies the question; how is it possible to find a sense of ëplace', in today's increasingly dislocated, ëglobal' world? The PROJECT award will go towards the production of an interpretative commentary which will feature in ëBuilding Design' and in other arts, architectural and construction journals.

Further details

Peter Hames, Hames Levack Foundation Ltd.
Tel: 020 7493 7775; Email: [email protected]


Skip to content Back to Public Art Online main site Home The Scheme Awards • England • Northern Ireland • Scotland • Wales Evaluation News Contact Download Logo Using the Site Copyright Privacy	Awards: Round Three, July 2005: PLACE, Blackfriars Bridge PLACE Blackfriars Bridge, London Client Hames Levack Foundation Ltd. Artist Ettie Spencer Project partners Building Design ICA Barbican RIBA Arup Engineering PROJECT Award Talking Artists Award £2,500 Value of design phase £4,600 Estimated value of construction phase To be confirmed. Project description HAMES LEVACK works with artists to realise ambitious ideas in the public realm. They are currently working with artist Ettie Spencer in creating an installation entitled PLACE on the vacant pillars next to Blackfriars Bridge near Tate Modern. The installation is scheduled for Autumn 2005 and will span the width of the Thames. RIBA architects, Works Architecture, and engineers, Arup, will carry out detailed design work. Studies on viability are already underway. PLACE will be supported by an accompanying publication, a talks programme at the ICA and various workshops and activities with local groups. Ettie Spencer is exhibiting a related installation entitled disPLACE in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh this summer. The use of the tent form as a visual metaphor is used in both installations by way of reference to issues associated with homelessness, refugee status and displacement. By providing the very minimum of shelter, a tent represents a skin which protects us from the harsh outer world. Central to the concept however, lies the question; how is it possible to find a sense of ëplace', in today's increasingly dislocated, ëglobal' world? The PROJECT award will go towards the production of an interpretative commentary which will feature in ëBuilding Design' and in other arts, architectural and construction journals. Further details Peter Hames, Hames Levack Foundation Ltd. Tel: 020 7493 7775; Email: [email protected]