Big Things on the Beach - Public art in Portobello, Edinburgh http://www.bigthingsonthebeach.org.uk Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:13:04 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bigthingsonthebeach.org.uk/content/view/101/40/ Miles Thurlow has been awarded the third and final commision of 2010, due to be launched in July. Miles is a Newcastle-based artist who is Co-Director Co-Founder of Workplace Gallery. He is currently Head of Sculpture at Northumbria University and has recently completed permanent commissions in Sunderland and Gateshead. See his work at: www.workplacegallery.co.uk (http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk) Commissions - Imagine Porty Prom Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:54:26 +0100 http://www.bigthingsonthebeach.org.uk/content/view/99/40/ Michael Pinsky has just been awarded the 2010 light-based commission for Big Things on the Beach at Portobello. Michael Pinsky uses the mediums of video, performance, mapping and programming to respond site-specifically to physical and sociological space. The context of a place is crucial, providing both the content and sites for his work. Michael will be in Portobello in mid August to meet the people and research the place of Portobello and develop ideas for his planned artwork, launching March 2010. See his work at: www.michaelpinsky.com (http://www.michaelpinsky.com/) Commissions - Imagine Porty Prom Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:58:51 +0100 http://www.bigthingsonthebeach.org.uk/content/view/98/40/ The Public Art House will be re-opening its doors to the public again this spring! Come visit to see displays about the project and commissioned artists and get creative in adding your opinions about Porty Prom.Watch this space for opening times from March 2010...56 Kings Road, Portobello, Edinburgh, EH15 1DX. Commissions - Imagine Porty Prom Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:33:22 +0100 http://www.bigthingsonthebeach.org.uk/content/view/96/40/ Artist duo Grennan Sperandio have recently been awarded the first of the Imagine Porty Prom art commissions! Well-known for their artworks in comic book form and more recently through television and community action projects (their work can be seen at www.kartoonkings.com (http://www.kartoonkings.com)), for the past nineteen years Grennan Sperandio have transformed and presented the narratives of friends’, relatives’ and strangers’ lives into oddly familiar objects and events. Since 1995, they have developed comic book, animation and community projects in conjunction with museums and broadcast, web and publishing companies in New York, Boston, London and Gateshead. The pair are perhaps best known for working with Chicago chocolate factory workers to design and produce their own chocolate bar as part of the influential 'Culture in Action' exhibition organised by Mary Jane Jacob in Chicago in 1993. Simon Grennan has been engaging local people to help them to create a temporary sculpture that captures the spirit of Portobello:“We’re out and about in Portobello in October and November getting to know what it’s really like. We’re asking people we meet to answer a simple question – If Portobello was a character,... Commissions - Imagine Porty Prom Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:33:56 +0100 http://www.bigthingsonthebeach.org.uk/content/view/97/40/ Susan Grant was appointed Public Art Participation Worker in August 2009. She is based at the Public Art House on the prom, working with Big Things on the Beach to commission artists and engage the local community in 'Imagining Porty Prom'. Contact her with any queries here (mailto:susan@bigthingsonthebeach.org.uk) Roberts Knight Leeds Metropolitan University (RKL) consultants have recently been appointed Public Art Consultants for Big Things on the Beach and will be working with the group, residents of Portobello and the City of Edinburgh Council to research and author a public art plan for Portobello prom. Their website can be seen here (http://www.rkl-consultants.org.uk/) Commissions - Imagine Porty Prom Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:49:07 +0100