Loan Toolkit
SPG Loan is an online catalogue of sculptures available for placement in shared and communal spaces. The artworks were originally created for exhibitions and events and are now waiting in storage for a second life. Since 2018, Sculpture Placement Group has facilitated around 70 placements in schools, businesses, community groups, and universities.
The Loan Toolkit below provides artists and organisations with everything they need to plan and arrange a placement. All resources are free to download and use. Please get in touch if you have a query about the project.
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Standing Zip 2: Pyramid Selling (part of installation)
Mick Peter, 2015
Description
Year made: 2015 Materials: Dims: 104 x 230 x 100
Petrified Giant
Aimee Lax, 2018
Description
In 2017 Aimee Lax took part in a residency at Cove Park, Scotland, overlooking Loch Long. She was immediately struck by the soil, peaty rich-brown and shimmering with metallic-looking healthy bacteria. The fungus and lichen bright green and orange, as a result of the clean air. But lurking around the...
Radiotrophic
Aimee Lax, 2018
Description
In 2017 Aimee Lax took part in a residency at Cove Park, Scotland, overlooking Loch Long. She was immediately struck by the soil, peaty rich-brown and shimmering with metallic-looking healthy bacteria. The fungus and lichen bright green and orange, as a result of the clean air. But lurking around the...
Life Raft
Ellie Harrison, 2015
Description
Ellie Harrison’s crazy golf hole, Life Raft, was created as part of a set of nine designed by different artists for Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf – an interactive exhibition presented at the Venice Biennale in 2015 as a collateral event. Life Raft features a scale map of Britain, designed...
“You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Until Its Gone” No.1. Simon Kennedy
Simon Kennedy, 2007
Description
Background, history, commissioner of the work Made in London 2007. Part of installation “Naughty But Nice” B&B Gallery, Folkestone Kent. 2009. Exhibited, Ritterhof Space, Kreuzberg Berlin. Featured in Cabaret show, Berlin Wintergarten. 2011. Solo exhibition “Scream” at The Icecreamists, Covent Garden, London. Featured on German ZDF TV, ARTE channel. 2020....
“Scratching the itch”
Amelie Moffat, 2025
Description
This sculpture stands at approximately 7ft. It is made from metal, fabric and assorted found objects. The sculpture depicts a woman who stands to remove the weight that is trapped inside of her stretched-out head. These ribbons serve as a physical manifestation of the eggs that we lay in our...
Mallow
Jane Higginbottom, 2021
Description
Carved and painted stone based on the repeated forms of a mallow flower.
Notebook and Pencil
Daisy Richardson, 2017
Description
Background, history, commissioner of the work It was included in my solo exhibition ‘Dividing Time’, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow (2017). I received Open Project Funding from Creative Scotland to research and make the body of work that this is part of. Thematic/contextual information It was inspired by the futuristic office...
Socket
Joseph Ingleby, 1999
Description
Abstract organic sculpture for interiors exploring functional and natural associations and forms. Within the nautical and organic outer shell in rolled sheet steel nestles an architectural core or yolk of sheet copper.