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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Shelf Life
Joseph Ingleby, 1990
Description
Exploring an uneasy ecological balance between nature and the man-made, this sculpture considers in a marine context the metamorphosis of a fish with a radioactive container. The eye is a canister lid, the gills behind are filters.
Earthscape Cosmography
Mair Hughes, 2019
Description
Earthscape Cosmography is a collection of objects and materials suggesting activities of foraging and sheltering, hearth-making and play, that reach across timescales. The starting point for the piece was my interest in Tim Ingold’s idea of the ‘taskscape’. Tim Ingold is an anthropologist whose writing has influenced a lot of...
aware kind dominant satiated satisfied the next on my hands and knees sobbing
paige silverman, 2025
Description
Gerroff!! (or User Feedback) sculpture group 1
Mick Peter, 2021
Description
Year made: 2021 Materials: Hi Macs and steel Dims: middle figure 225cm
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...
A Taste Of Honey
Joseph Ingleby, 1999
Description
Abstract organic sculpture for interiors exploring functional and natural associations and forms. Viewed through the mesh steel spoon the copper reflects a moire effect reminiscent of stripes on a bee.
Infinity Box
Amelie Moffat, 2025
Description
A wooden box that uses a mirror illusion to simulate an infinite background. The trick is achieved using a two-way mirror and LED lights. At the moment, there is a fabric display illustrating a woman slipping on a banana. The interior can be changed as the mirrors are detachable, so...