Re:Public - towards an art for the public realm

Artists including Will Alsop, Ekkehard Altenburger, Assael Architects, Futurecity, Nicolas Deshayes, MAKE Architects, Bruce McLean, Mark Titchner, Alison Turnbull, Mark Wallinger, Richard Wilson, Clare Woods, and Oliver Marsden

The commissioning and selection processes for public art have certainly changed, the reception of works is more critical and the audience generally more discerning, sophisticated and demanding. But what happens when an artist is commissioned to make a public work away from the privacy of the studio or the relative safe haven of a gallery; how does it affect the creative process and how does it affect the artist’s future work?

The exhibition is sited within the Futurespace gallery in Grosvenor Waterside, a residential development by St James Urban Living in Westminster. Itself the site of award winning public art and signature architecture projects resulting from a cultural strategy by Futurecity. Artists in the exhibition such as Ekkehard Altenberger, Richard Wilson and Clare Woods/MAKE Architects have permanent public works within the Grosvenor Waterside development and other artist in the exhibition have worked on Futurecity art & architecture projects

Re:Public Private View: Tuesday 27th July 6 – 8.30pm