1 May 2008
Book Launch: Celia Scott
We are pleased to announce the launch of Celia Scott, to be held at The Architectural Association.
The event will begin with a lecture, entitled Refiguring the Head, followed by the launch.
Come along!
Wednesday 7th May 2008
6 pm: lecture
6.45 pm to 9 pm: book launch
The Architectural Association
36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES
Please RSVP to mail@celiascott.com or 020 7485 2689
18 February 2008
More Praise for Platform for Art
Platform for Art: Art on the Underground has been reviewed in the March issue of Artists & Illustrators. Here is a quote from the review:
"London Underground's relationship with art dates back decades. In this book, every part of the relationship's progeny and process is detailed... A bevy of bright young things and new ideas."
Artists & Illustrators
9 January 2008
Bob and Roberta Smith shortlisted for Trafalgar Square fourth plinth
Make Your Own Damn Art and Art U Need: My Place in the Public Art Revolution author Bob and Roberta Smith's proposal has been shortlisted to fill the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar square.
After standing empty for the last 150 years, the plinth is now host to proposals from selected artists and has already made an extraordinary impact on the London art scene and has captured the public’s imagination.
Bob and Roberta’s piece, a giant eco-friendly sign which reads 'Faîtes L’Art, pas La Guerre (Make Art, Not War)' written in lights which are powered by the sun and wind, has received the thumbs up from Adrian Searle, The Guardian visual arts critic, Tom Lubbock, The Independent art critic and a favourable mention in The Times by Dalya Alberge.
"Only one of these designs seems worth realizing – that of Bob and Roberta Smith, aka the artist Patrick Brill"
Tom Lubbock, The Independent
Read the full article here.
"Bob and Roberta Smith’s wonderfully daft tower imagines just such an alternative history. With its solar panels, a wind generator, and the glitzy illuminated lettering enjoining us to ‘Faîtes l’art, pas la guerre’, it has a brazen vitality reminiscent of 1960s French nouveau réalisme. The sculpture has a low carbon footprint and promotes civic virtues, creativity, and language skills. The slogan itself could be a distant echo of May ’68. It is stupid, but oddly, uplifting. Man the barricades!"
Adrian Searle, The Guardian
Read the full article here.
Models of the proposed works by the six short-listed artists are on show from 8 January 2008 at the National Gallery, London.