We are artists how can we help…

Client Design for London and Olympic Park Legacy Company

muf architecture art with Vicki Lewis and Mary George

We are artists, is an ongoing research project initiated in response to the curatorial strategy to ‘home grow’ public art and enable art practice to actively inform policy making in an area that is highly contested.  The first phase of the project began with a chaired dinner debate that led to an artist manifesto for the area and briefs for four temporary commissions for Hackney Wicked Festival. These commissions were selected by anonymous peer review by all the 32 artists who submitted a proposal.  The second phase was the ‘Art Boot Camp’ a temporary program of workshops with local children on a local land-banked development site to introduce children to the local artists’ habit of appropriation and reuse of slack spaces.