Ian Hunter was commissioned by Rossendale Borough Council and the Bacup and Stacksteads Estate Management Board to consult and carry out work on this improvement scheme for a local housing estate. The project incorporated features and benches sculpted in stone and wall, pavement and bench carvings. Ian Hunter worked in close collaboration with landscape architect Nick Bishop, faciliting the integral involvement of local residents and school children, enabling their individual expression in the proposed works. Client: Rossendale Borough Council. Award value £2,275.\n
Tom Wood was selected through an open competition to collaborate with Allen Todd Architects on the refurbishment of the bar area of the Square Chapel in Halifax. The Square Chapel has been repaired and restored incorporating innovative contemporary design and is an important arts venue in the town centre. Client: Square Chapel Building Trust. Award value £4,500.
David Pearl. working with architects Colwyn Foulkes & Partners, produced designs for a large contemporary stained glass scheme for this aids hospice in Brighton. Pearl states 'Properly used stained glass become inseparable from the intentions and the fabric of the architecture....' Regretfully, due to financial constraints, the designs were not implemented. Client: West Sussex County Council. Award value £4,500.
Jeff Bell designed and considered locations for architectural glass in the refurbishment of Ipswich Central Library. Bell worked with Suffolk Council Architects Department on designs to make glass a key feature of the buildng. Client: Suffolk County Council. Award value £4,000.
Ray Smith identified opportunities for specially-created works of art and craft for the new Dawlish Leisure Centre in Devon. Working with John Dann and Graham Hughes of Teignbridge District Council Architects Department, Smith was able to incorporate his ideas into the fabric of the biulding in an integrated an unobtrusive fashion. He designed a work of 'floating' figures within the brickwork, a wall sculpture in the bar area as well as interior and exterior signs. Client: Teignbridge District Council. Award value £4,000.
Peter Fink collaborated with landscape architects LDC Ltd on the Dundee Wharf walkway in the Isle of Dogs, London. The walkway is the first of several bridges commissioned by the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) for the Docklands area and extends the pedestrian and cycle routes from the City and Limehouse basin. Fink worked with the design team on the detailed design solutions of the walkway, with a particular emphasis on lighting. Completed in 1994. Client: LDDC. Award value £4,000.
David Watkins worked with Ron Smith of Peter Currie Architects on the design of external areas of this public housing development in North London. Watkins proposed an arbour, seating, screens and planting. The housing development was completed in 1995. Although designs were completed and fees paid, the artist's ideas were not incorporated into the development due to lack of funding. Client: Peter Currie Architects. Award value £5,000.
John O'Connor and Louise Barber collaborated with Niall Phillips Architects on the conversion of a disused tea blending factory for Artspace artists' studios. O'Connor and Barber also coordinated and commissioned works of art for this new centre named Spike Island. The project was completed in 1997. Client: Bristol City Council. Award value £8,000.
Susanna Heron collaborated on the design of a prominent public courtyard within the overall development of a derelict site in Shoreditch, East London, to become a new college campus. Heron worked with Hampshire County Architects and Perkins Ogden Architects to create a sunken garden incorporating water, sculpture and planting, to allow daylight into the Resources Centre in the courtyard at lower ground level. This project won the 1998 Art and Work Award. The project was completed in 1998. Client: Hackney Community College. Award value £5,750.
Richard Wilson collaborated with Ellis Williams Partners to integrate lighting within the structure of the Baltic Flour Mill to animate its silhouette after dark, softening the static and imposing silhouette into a welcoming beacon. The Baltic Flour Mill was being developed into a new contemporary art complex and this project formed part of the 1996 Year of Visual Arts. The design work was completed in 1998. Client: Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council. Award value £5,000.
Morag Morrison and Anya Gallacio worked to develop a design framework for integrating public art into the urban regeneration of King's Cross in London. Several built environment consultants were appointed by London Borough of Camden to work on the scheme. The development is a four year programme of physical improvements to local estates and it was intended that appointed artists would help to draw together key elements of the urban fabric using landscaping, lighting and signage. The project was completed in 1997. Client: London Borough of Camden. Award value £10,000.
Katherine Clarke worked in collaboration with Muf Architects to propose design solutions for the environmental and urban regeneration of Southwark Street in London. Through the use of video the team engaged with local people, with the aim of visualising their desires for the streets and public space in their area. The project was completed in 1996. Client: Southwark Urban Design Initiative. Award value £4,375.
Richard Deacon, Anya Gallacio and Tadashi Kawamata worked with John Miller architects on a series of sculpture commissions exhibited on the Gallery lawn during renovation of the building. The artists' interventions reflected the gallery as a dynamic space of creation and ideas and the importance of architecture in defining public spaces. The project was completed in 1998. Client: Serpentine Gallery. Award value £10,000.
Grenville Davey collaborated with Simpson Associated Architects on the concept, planning and design framework for the redevelopment of Manchester city centre, following a bomb blast in 1996. Davey worked to improve the quality of the spaces and buildings and identify appropriate opportunities for the inclusion of art therein. The project design stage was completed in 1998. Client: Manchester Millennium Ltd. Award value £10,000.
Nicky Hirst worked with Jonathan Darke of Stillman Eastwick-Field architects on the refurbishment and extension to the staff and patient facilities at this hospital in North London. The project was completed in 1999. Client: The Royal Free Hampstead (NHS) Trust. Award value £4,800.
Ron Haselden worked with Lynn Kinnear of Kinnear Landscape Architects on this new play environment and public arts space within the regenerated grounds of an inner-city London school. Haselden considered the historical and physical nature of the site creating an accessible space for sculpture, play and public arts and forging new links between school and commnity. The project was completed in 1998. Client: Canonbury Infant and Junior Schools. Award value £5,000.
Brian Kennedy and David Grant collaborated with architect Andrew Gault of Consarc Design Group on a large scale urban regeneration project in Lisburn including restoration of canal locks, a new riverside park and canal basin with mooring and a performance hall. The artists also advised on the design of a new arts centre and the introduction of contemporary art into the building. The project was completed in 2001. Client: Lisburn Borough Council. Award value £4,000.