Outside the Box- Art in the Public Realm 25.09.2015
For this edition of Art Talks we focused on the programming of art outside the traditional context of gallery or museum space, specifically in London. We were in conversation with Kirsten Dunne Senior Cultural Strategy Officer at Greater London Authority, Nicola Lees former curator at Frieze Projects and Hannah Berry, curator of Bold Tendencies, Peckham.
Kirsten Dunne - Senior Cultural Strategy Officer at Greater London Authority. She have also launched the London Regeneration Fund for artist studios, creative workspace and production spaces.
Nicola Lees - An independent curator and former Curator of Frieze Projects. She was previously Senior Curator of Public Programmes at the Serpentine Gallery, London, where she oversaw interdisciplinary, time-based and performance projects, artist commissions, initiating Park Nights and the Serpentine Cinema series, and realizing the Serpentine Gallery Marathon.
Hannah Barry - Founder of the Hannah Barry Gallery in 2008, she has been influential in pulling the locus of contemporary art in the capital away from the East End and south to Peckham. Works with artists such as James Capper, Nathan Cash Davidson and Nick Jeffrey. Most notably, she set up the annual ‘Bold Tendencies’ exhibition, which has drawn more than half a million visitors already to this previously unfashionable corner of the city.
"There’s an air of possibility here. I think down here, around Peckham, people really celebrate making things." - Hannah Barry
http://www.hannahbarry.com
Image Credit : Hans Haacke, Gift Horse, 2015. Commisioned for the Mayor of London’s Fourth Plinth programme, Photo by Gautier Deblonde.