Just how 'public' is Public Art? How much influence do you have over what lands up where you live? What do everyday people really like? The Big Art Project asks all the big questions about Public Art.
Winner of the last Big 4 competition – Hannah Gourlay's Time to Breathe (Photo: Dave King)
New BIG 4 revealed
January 2011 sees the unveiling of ‘Time to Breathe’, the latest commission for the BIG 4, Channel 4’s ongoing public art project outside the headquarters on Horseferry Road, London.
‘Time to Breathe’, the winning artwork from the BIG 4 design competition in 2010, was designed by artist Hannah Gourlay, a fashion and textiles graduate. Hannah wanted to create a brief moment of calm for passersby – a time for reflection, relaxation and renewal. Her concept will see the 4 softly breathe, inhaling and exhaling slowly, at a similar pace to yogic breathing and at night illuminated with a gentle gradient of colour from white to dark pink, which will increase and decrease at the same pace.
Antony Gormley: Angel of the North, Mark Wallinger: Ecce Homo and Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty
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Tony Cragg: Declination and Luke Jerram: Sky Orchestra
Photo credits (clockwise from top left):
Anthony Gormley Angel of the North (courtesy Gateshead Council, ©the artist and Jay Joplin/White Cube)
Mark Wallinger Ecce Homo (courtesy Anthony Reynolds Gallery, © the artist)
Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty (© Estate of Robert Smithson/licensed by VAGA New York NY. Courtesy James Cohan Gallery NY. Collection DIA Center for the Arts NY. Photo: G Gorgoni)
Luke Jerram Sky Orchestra (courtesy Luke Jerram Photo: Thierry Grobet)
Tony Cragg Declination (courtesy Lisson Gallery and the artist)
