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Permanent sculpture
Today's artists are finding new and challenging subjects, using new materials and often engaging more closely with the history of a proposed permanent site when creating permanent works of public art.

Land art
Using the raw materials of earth, sea and even the elements, land artists require scientific and geological knowledge as well as large-scale logistical planning skills to realise often ambitious and high-profile works.

Non-permanent works
Such art works may be installed in various sites and become, like touring works of theatre, different experiences each time; or they may be made with their eventual destruction or disappearance in mind.

Moving image
Some artists have experimented with the projected image as public art, getting rid of the screen altogether and allowing a backdrop of, say, a commercial or cultural building to become part of the work.

Text and technology
Artists have used text in a variety of ways, from poetic or commonplace words carved in blocks of stone, using traditional craft skills, to electronic information boards, or projections bristling with incongruous messages of hope and despair.

Interventions and events
Often critical or playfully anarchic, intervention art interrupts social systems or institutional structures, perhaps incongruously placing objects within a given context. Events may be staged with a community, the artist acting as a facilitator for ideas.

Architecture art
Artists are often involved in public building projects right from the start, to add ideas from their own particular perspective, adding to the creative relationship between client and architect, and producing work integral to the design.