Archived Projects

Jan 1996 to Feb 1996

Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow City

Public Art Commissions for GOMA

Site-specific artworks were commissioned for particular locations within and on the exterior of the Gallery building. This gave the selected artists the opportunity to make work for the specific architectural context of the building.

Tagged as: Adrian Wiszniewski Andy Goldsworthy Glasgow Ian Hamilton Finlay Nikki de Saint Phalle

Jul 1995 to Feb 1996

Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow City

Craft Commissions for GOMA

Innovative furniture and tiling were commissioned for the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow. These commissioned pieces were designed to illustrate that innovative design can combine both aesthetic and functional qualities whilst addressing issues of access and mobility for museum visitors.

Tagged as: Alan Peters Danny Lane Edinburgh Ceramics Glasgow Mary Little Public art and traditional craft Robert Cooper Tim Stead Wales and Wales access

Mar 1996 to Jun 1996

Tollcross Park, Glasgow City

Sculptures for East End Leisure Centre

In collaboration with the Scottish Sculpture Trust, the Glasgow City Council wished to commission work for a water feature sculpture to be sited at the entrance to the East End Leisure Centre in Tollcross Park. Despite securing funding for the commission and following an appropriate selection process, the work was never commissioned for this site and the award amount was never claimed. Differences of opinion, issues of vandalism and maintenance all contributed to the Council’s decision not to proceed with the project.

Tagged as: Glasgow not realised park

Jan 1996 to Aug 1996

Easterhouse, Glasgow City

The Arts is Magic & Lochfield Park Co-op Partnership Sculpture Commission

A centre-piece sculpture was commissioned bringing a significant artistic focus to the park and demonstrating opportunities for artists to engage with communities and the city as a whole. The project also involved arts and education outreach workshops within the community through a partnership with John Wheatley College, the Glasgow School of Art, artists and educators.

Tagged as: Bevan & Mitchell Glasgow Grove Ken Mitchell Regeneration

Jun 1997 to Jul 1997

Whiteinch, Glasgow City

Whiteinch Housing Association Public Art

A “jewel-like” feature on the front of a new tenement development in Whiteinch, Glasgow. The designer Lynn Park worked with the architects and housing association to create a series of metal panels that were further enhanced with lighting design.

Tagged as: Glasgow Lynn Park new housing

Jun 1998 to Jul 1999

Glasgow, Glasgow City

Transformations on the Edge

This project represents a collaboration between artists and community through liaison with housing associations in Glasgow. It involved the integration of art into the local public realm in ways that were of relevance to those individual communities.

Tagged as: Glasgow community

Mar 1999 to Sep 1999

Possilpark, Glasgow City

The St Matthew's Centre

The St Matthews Centre is based in the Possilpark area of Glasgow where this project redeveloped the exterior landscape of the centre. Before March 1999 this outside area was in a state of semi-dereliction and decay. Artists were involved in the planning and realisation of key parts of this redevelopment. The artists worked with with the local community and architects to create a well-used community space. This space includes a contemplative seating area, a garden, an artist-designed feature wall, gate, railings and fountain.

Tagged as: Calum Sinclair Glasgow Mary Doyle Regeneration community garden

Jan 1999 to Nov 1999

Castlemilk, Glasgow City

Gateways and Landmarks

The Gateways and Landmarks project was part of “9 for 99”: a partnership project that sought to boost the perceived image of Castlemilk through the redevelopment of 21 hectares of land and the creation of a civic square. The intention was to develop a visual identity for Castlemilk, creating a sense of place through destination sites. The implementation of “9 for 99” created 21 training places for local unemployed people and the Gateways project proved to be a foundation for a longer-term public art strategy for the Castlemilk Environment Trust.

Tagged as: Doug Cocker Glasgow Kenny Hunter Michael Dan Archer Paul Grime Regeneration Rick Kirby community

May 1999 to Dec 1999

Glasgow, Glasgow City

Long Term Lighting Initiative

Four buildings earmarked for their architectural style and strategic positons within the city were subject to innovative artist-led lighting designs. David Bryant, working with NVA Ltd illuminated the buildings and structures using LED and fibre optic technology. The aim of this project was to improve the public perception of the built environment in darkeness. The context for Glasgow at this time was that of 1999 City of Architecture & Design – capitalised by NVA Ltd through this project.

Tagged as: David Bryant Glasgow Jonathan Spiers architecture lighting

Jan 2001 to Aug 2001

Castlemilk, Glasgow City

Reputations: Commission Plan

The Reputations project was a development phase Public Art and Social Interaction Programme based in Castlemilk. It was a project designed to set precedents in multi-agency working with artists of local, national and international calibre. The programme included commissioned temporary and permanent public artworks, public interaction and training programmes for artists and communities. The training programmes addressed notions of citizenship and identity within the premise of social inclusion. The Reputations Programme was intent on placing equal value on process, participation and product in the creation of new public art. A key aim of Reputations was to explore the impact of the role of the artist in wider terms than the physical environment but demonstrate how artists can work in different contexts whilst improving the social environment.

The Royston Road Project

The Royston Road project was a combination of artist-community collaborations and artist-residencies supporting the regeneration of two public spaces in the North of Glasgow.
Artists Graham Fagen and Toby Paterson worked as part of the design team with landscape architects, Loci Design to develop the two spaces into community parks: The Spire Park and Molendinar Park. Located at opposite ends of the “Royston Corridor” the creation of the parks involved local residents and community groups at the various stages of design, development and implementation of ideas. This involvement inspired an ongoing programme of arts and sporting activities and the forming of a community board motivated to continue the momentum generated by the redevelopment of the area.

Tagged as: Collaborative Glasgow Graham Fagen Regeneration Toby Paterson artist-in-residence park

Dec 2001 to Jan 2002

Blochairn, Glasgow City

Artist-Designed Public Garden, Blochairn

The aim of this project was to create an artist-designed public garden within a new housing development in Blochairn, Glasgow. It was thought that the garden could be a positive and social space becoming an attractive focal point for the community. The intention was a collaboration between the Housing Co-Operative, the architects and an artist, with public art agency, Visual Art Projects (VAP) leading the project development.

Despite a successful funding application to the SAC the project did not take place but remains an attractive idea for development at a later time. What is described here are the intentions of the original application.

Tagged as: Glasgow garden not realised

Oct 2001 to Sep 2002

Pollokshields, Glasgow City

Hidden Gardens

Located in the centre of Glasgow The Hidden Gardens is a place of sanctuary dedicated to peace. It has been achieved through an artist-led programme of regeneration involving collaboration with environmnental arts charity organisation, landscape architects, an international team of architects and the local community.

Within this public space artworks are integrated into the overall garden design combined with landscaping and planting.

The entire project is significant in its attention to community consultation, cultural diversity and inclusion. The impact of such considerations can be seen in the smallest of details. For example, in some areas of planting there is a mixture of Asian and Celtic flowers, trees and shrubs.

Tagged as: Alec Hamilton Finlay Angus Farquhar Collaborative Divya Bhatia Gerry Loose Glasgow Julie Brook Regeneration Stephen Skrynka garden

Jul 2002 to Jan 2005

Castlemilk, Glasgow City

Reputations

This project builds on previous public art projects in Castlemilk to realise a series of 18 public artworks: five permanent landmark works, ten temporary/artist placement works, two longer term process-based works and one documentation project for the whole Reputations programme. Reputations was curated by Jason E. Bowman and Rachel Bradley on behalf of the Castlemilk Environment Trust.

Tagged as: Glasgow Regeneration

Oct 2005 to Jan 2006

Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow City

The Saltire Centre

Letter cutting artist Gary Breeze was commissioned to design, manufacture and install a sculptural series of 13 stone blocks within the external courtyard area. This carved stone installation reflects the ideals of the Saltire Centre as a place of learning and culture and acts as seating and an informal meeting place as well as a work of art. The blocks feature engraved stanzas from a Latin poem by Horace together with translated texts in English and modern Scots dialect.

Tagged as: Gary Breeze Glasgow art in the learning environment civic sculptures

Jan 2006 to Jun 2006

New Victoria Hospital and New Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow City

Integrated Art Schemes - Research & Development

Mainstreaming the arts into primary and secondary healthcare settings lies at the core of this project. Artists have been brought into conversation with architects in order that the physical and emotional qualities of the built environment are linked. The desire is that this connection facilitates a therapeutic experience for all users of each new hospital.

This project offers an insight into the different approaches of artists and architects in relation to hospital environments.

Tagged as: Ally Wallace Art in Healthcare Commission Plan Glasgow Thomas A Clark hospital

Apr 2006 to Sep 2008

Easthall, Easterhouse, Glasgow City

Changing Glenburn Park

The Glenburn Public Art Project (also known as “Changing Glenburn Park”) was devised as an artist-in-residence programme supporting the work of Karla Black over a period of six months. During that time Karla worked with various community groups in the research and development of a series of designs for a piece of of contemporary public art. This collaboration involved residents travelling with Karla to visit the gardens of Mount Stuart, Culzean Castle and Little Sparta

Tagged as: Glasgow Karla Black artist-in-residence community park residency

Jul 2002 to May 2008

Castlemilk, Glasgow City

Reputations

This project looked to build on previous public art projects in Castlemilk to realise a series of 18 public artworks: five permanent landmark works, ten temporary/artist placement works, two longer term process-based works and one documentation project for the whole Reputations programme. Reputations was curated by Jason E. Bowman and Rachel Bradley on behalf of the Castlemilk Environment Trust.

During the process, work of two of the artists were commissioned. These were by artists Edwina fitzPatrick and Esther Shlev-Gerz.

See alos: Archive: Reputations: Commission Plan

Tagged as: Andrew Sabin Angel Bergara Anne Elliot Asier Perez Gonzales Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir Catriona Grant Christina McBride Edwina fitzPatrick Elizabeth-Jane Grose Esther Shalev-Gerz Glasgow John Newling Louise Brookes Mandy McIntosh Moti Roti Muf Regeneration Sarah Tripp Shelley Ouellet Wochenklausur

Feb 1997 to Apr 1997

Brunswick Lane, Glasgow City

Merchant City Commission

The proposal was to commission an artwork as part of a wider environmental improvement scheme to redevelop Brunswick Lane. This project referred only to the completion of the artwork. The proposal was to add value to the redevelopment of a small, but important, thoroughfare in Glasgow’s city centre with the artwork being a significant landmark in the city-scape.

Visual Art Projects (VAP) developed a collection of ambitious, yet physically small, artworks within the Merchant City under the ‘Urban Icons Project’ and this proposal formed part of this programme. The project was supported under the wider ‘Artworks for Glasgow’ scheme, a strategic city wide programme of commissioning artists to work on public sites in the city.

The timing of the piece coincided with Douglas Gordon’s award of the Turner Prize and was the artists first permanent work outwith the gallery context.

Tagged as: Douglas Gordon Glasgow

Glasgow, Glasgow City

New Stobhill Hospital

Tagged as: Andreas Karl Schulze Donald Urquhart Glasgow Kenneth Dingwall Olwen Shone Thomas A Clark health