Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries named Scotland’s Best Building

The building, designed by Richard Murphy Architects, has been awarded the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland’s (RIAS) Andrew Doolan Prize. Contained in the building is a public art commission produced by Ginkgo Projects with artist Toby Paterson for Fife Council.

Three Follies for Print Hall

Working with artist Juliet Haysom, we install three follies in the Print Hall development near Old Market, addressing ideas of erasure, reconnection, rebuilding and removal.

‘Conversations Between Floods’

As part of the wider Art on the Exe project Tania Kovats has been delivering a single edition newspaper to households and businesses bordering the Exeter Valley Parks exploring the politics, policies, impacts and potential solutions that surround flooding: a complex, long term problem in Exeter.

New Bridewell, Bristol

Recently completed, 14537/9431 is the public art commission for the New Bridewell student housing development on Nelson Street, Bristol. Artist Lilah Fowler reflects on technology and the contemporary landscape as having become inherently combined. The work refers to the changing terms of our sense of space created by digital culture, where landscape is embedded with, and shaped by, technology, and virtual tools create a parallel mental and physical interpretation of our world.

Art on the Exe

Artists Tania Kovats and Anne-Marie Culhane have each been commissioned by East Devon District Council to develop new work responding to the £31m programme of flood defence improvements currently under way in Exeter.

The new works created by the artists during 2017 aim to generate a wider conversation in Exeter about the impact and consequences of flooding in the city, and raise greater awareness and understanding of the surrounding issues.

The Tracks

An immersive tale of community, change and colour; The Tracks is a collaboration between Bristol Old Vic Young Company and Melksham Oak Community School exploring the positive influence change and new people can bring to a community. Commissioned by Ginkgo Projects, The Tracks forms the final part of the public art strategy produced by Ginkgo to develop a unique sense of place and identity in the new development on the land East of Melksham.

Requiem for 114 Radios – Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard

Co- commissioned by Ginkgo with Colston Hall and opening within the Colston Hall cellars, the spine-tingling Requiem for 114 Radios went on to tour forming part of ‘Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick’ – an exhibition of art inspired by the master film maker.

Kings Gate, Amesbury

Ginkgo have produced and are implementing a wide reaching art strategy for Kings Gate in Amesbury, Wiltshire for client Bloor Homes. The art strategy aims to enhance the sense of community and cohesion between “existing” Amesbury and the new Kings Gate development; drawing the two communities together through engagement and participation.

Urban Stage, Wapping Wharf, Bristol,

A new transitional space set between private courtyards and the public street has been created by KBHT for this residential development in Bristol.

New South Glasgow Hospitals

Ginkgo Projects completed a major art and therapeutic design programme for New South Glasgow Hospitals.

Constellation, Barnhill

Constellation by Alastair Mackie is composed of four bird baths commissioned by South Gloucestershire Council for a new housing development in Chipping Sodbury. The works articulate a pedestrian route connecting the development to the High Street. The vessels are made out of the carboniferous limestone that is geologically rich and quarried locally.

Verity-Jane Keefe with Novacast

In East Melksham, artist Verity-Jane Keefe has been working with local foundry, Novacast, to produce bronze pieces celebrating the town’s social and industrial past. The work which was developed from initial research by Wrights and Sites follows the disrupted historical walking routes linking the new areas of development and the old town centre.