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‘Thoughts That Make Actions In The World’ by Chantal Oakes
1st-15th February 2008 ‘Thoughts That Make Actions In The World’ is a striking animation that was projected onto the windows of a disused shop unit in St. Johns Centre in response to Preston bus...
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‘The Preston Market Mystery Project’ by John Newling
November 2006 – June 2007 The Preston Market Mystery Project was developed through a series visits that artist John Newling made to Preston during 2006, in which he became intrigued with the city’s...
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‘Local Colour’ by Becky Shaw
August – November 2008 “The relationship between supply and demand fascinates me. What comes first, the climate that produces the desire for a certain colour, or the decision by the industry to create...
View Article‘The Family’ by Chris Davis
May 2007 -Dec 2008 The Family was as a creative evaluation of the In Certain Places programme, which was developed by artist Chris Davis, working alongside the Moores Family on the Brookfield estate in...
View ArticleIn The Shops Now!
1st July – 26th August In the shops! now was an artist residency scheme, in which four North West artists; Teresa and Dominique Hodgson-Holt, Martin Hamblen and Leo Fitzmaurice were offered the...
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‘Red’ by Teresa and Dominique Hodgson-Holt
1st July – 28th August, 2009 As part of the In The Shops Now! artist residency project, Teresa and Dominique Hodgson-Holt created an alternative shop in the St. John’s Arcade, where customers took...
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‘Heuristic’ by Martin Hamblen
1st July – 26th August 2009 As part of the In The Shops Now! artist residency scheme, Martin Hamblen worked ’9 to 5′, Monday to Friday constructing a ‘tunnel’ which ran through the middle of his shop....
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‘Archigram’ by Leo Fitzmaurice
1st July – 26th August As part of the In The Shops Now! project, artist Leo Fitzmaurice transformed a shop front into a modern day stained glass window which was illuminated at night.
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‘The Arcade’ by Magda Stawarska-Beavan
23rd April – 6th May 2010 The Arcade is a soundpiece created by artist, Magda Stawarska-Beavan, which brought the soundscape of Rynek Główny, the main square in Kraków, Poland, to the Harris Museum...
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Place Beyond Place
28th April, 2010 Place Beyond Place was a one-day symposium for urban planners, artists, public art commissioners, architects, urban designers and other people with an interest in cities. Inspired by...
View Article‘From The Docklands’ by Loraine Leeson
28th April, 2010 Click the “download on iTunes” button to the right of this post to download the podcast. As part of the Place Beyond Place symposium, artist Loraine Leeson presented her work of the...
View Article‘Re-visioning Black Urbanism’ by Paul Goodwin
28th April, 2010 Click the “download on iTunes” button to the right of this post to download the podcast. Paul Goodwin is a geographer, urban theorist and curator. He is an Associate Fellow at CUCR and...
View Article‘To Scatter’ by Susan Walsh
23rd April – 6th May 2010 “To Scatter” by Susan Walsh ‘Suddenly Sleep retreats like the undertow of a wave in which a child grasps at a half-glimpsed shell, as I do at this cluster of notes, just heard...
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The Monument and the Changing City Symposium – Book Now!
Wed 2nd March, 2011 10 am – 4 pm (9.30 am registration) University of Central Lancashire Ticket prices Full Price: £36 + VAT Students: £15 + VAT Tickets include refreshments and lunch. A limited number...
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Prof. Paul Gough For ten years Paul Gough has been Executive Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts, he is the RWA Professor of Fine Arts, and a founding Director of the UWE Research Centre PLaCe. His...
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Dr. Paul Gough ‘Certain Places, Uncertain Futures’: Rhetorical Topographies and Poetic Opportunities. In European cities memory and identity are inextricably linked through the ordering and naming of...
View Article‘Cenotaph’ or war memorial?’ – Tour of the Preston War Memorials, the Flag...
2nd March, 2011 The tour explains the design development of Gilbert Scott’s memorials between 1919 and their completion in 1926. The memorials, in the city square and the Harris, are placed in the...
View Article‘The Monument Project (Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice)’ by Chris...
2nd March, 2011 As part of the Monument and the Changing City symposium, Chris Meigh-Andrews made an illustrated presentation outlining the background, context, operations and functioning of his most...
View Article‘Flash@Hebburn: An Unintentional Monument’ by Charles Quick
2nd March, 2011 As part of the Monument and the Changing City symposium, artist Charles Quick presented Flash@Hebburn, a public art commission for Hebburn Riverside Park, South Tyneside. The talk...
View Article‘The Past and Possible Futures of Countermonument’ by Jonathan Vickery
2nd March, 2011 In this talk, presented as part of the Monument and the Changing City symposium, Dr. Vickery looks at the concept of ‘countermonument’ and considers some of its various forms, such as...
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