Ginkgo Projects is one of Britain’s leading specialist independent art and design consultancies working across the UK.
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Ginkgo produces, designs and implements creative urban and rural projects that connect people to their environment.
We combine elements of research, strategy development, partnership building, art curation and landscape design to create authentic and innovative projects.
Our clients come from both the commercial and public sectors and we welcome opportunities to develop partnerships and fresh approaches to creating new work.
Following its success at Colston Hall cellars, the spine-tingling Requiem for 114 Radios (co-commissioned by Ginkgo Projects) is now touring and will form part of ‘Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick’ – an exhibition of art inspired by the master film maker which runs from 5 July to 24 August 2016.
Shape Studio’s latest approved designs for a shelter at Charlton Hayes use an arrangement of triangles to create an interruption within the landscaped surroundings. The Shelter is constructed from a Richlite which is an incredibly durable and environmentally friendly material surprisingly made from paper.
Ginkgo is working with Alex Murdin and Mary Schwarz to develop a Cultural Masterplan for Cranbrook, a new settlement of 8,000 houses over the next 15 years in Devon.
Ginkgo is developing a public art programme for the Exe Riverside Valley Park in Exeter linked to the ongoing £30m programme of flood defence improvements.
Ginkgo is working with Alex Murdin of ruralrecreation a new art project for a major village housing extension around Hilperton in Wiltshire.
Ginkgo Projects working for Brookfield Multiplex have just completed a major art and therapeutic design for New South Glasgow Hospitals.
Ginkgo has recently written a publication ‘Creativity in Community-led Planning in Dorset’; guidance aimed at community leaders developing a Neighbourhood plan in Dorset. The guidance is relevant to communities all over the country.
Star of Caledonia is a new landmark to be created by Cecil Balmond and Charles Jencks to celebrate a historic border, the border between Scotland and England. The project has recently gained planning consent and we are seeking further funding for construction.
Ginkgo has been working with Toby Paterson and Collective Architecture on the second stage of their commission in Dunfermline.
Artists Caitlin Shepherd and Shape Studio have been commissioned to develop a combined approach to the provision of a shelter at Charlton Hayes and the development of community growing and edible planting within the green spine of the site.
A series of cultural interventions forming part of a legibility framework for Bower Ashton Campus, UWE.
Ginkgo worked with NHS Lothian over 10 years to develop and project manage a rolling programme of public art works for this major acute city hospital.