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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Fell
Alex Allan, 2020
Description
Sculpture created in preparation for a larger, permanent public work in Danderhall, Midlothian. This work was used to explore mix ratios, pigmentation and aperture with regard to the final work. This work could be placed indoors or set into a suitable place outdoors.
Unhooking A Torment Must Begin Somewhere
Jill Gibson, 2016
Description
Unhooking A Torment Must Begin Somewhere The work, a chain link comprised of several interlocking links connected by a hook and eye is a deeply personal piece. It is part of an ongoing series examining familial relationships. In a sense it continues to be a catharsis; the materials emblematic and...
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...
Filter and Propulsion
Joseph Ingleby, 2019
Description
Abstract organic sculptures for interior display. Combining natural and industrial forms they address nature and its vulnerability to environmental change, particularly in a marine context.
Gasoline Leaf
Joseph Ingleby, 1999
Description
Abstract organic sculpture for interiors exploring functional and natural associations and forms. Considering nature and environmental balance, the automobile language of rolled steel metamorphoses into a leaf.
Tangled
Saskia Jae Singer, 2019
Description
Inspired by Psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott’s Squiggle Theory, my work is deeply motivated by the role of the subconscious and places importance on carefree aspects of squiggles and mark-making. My practice is predominantly ‘playing’ with materials, process and primitive techniques, it utilises the ‘formlessness’ of the squiggle: the subconscious guiding the...
A Case Of Alchemy 2012
Louise Gibson, 2012
Description
1. L 600 B 260 H 390mm 2. L 600 B 210 H 390mm total weight approx. 50 kilos Leather, polyester resin and the Artists collected personal objects/material. Photography © Christopher Lewis Cook
“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....