Loan Toolkit

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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Mallow

Jane Higginbottom, 2021

Freestanding On a plinth

Description

Carved and painted stone based on the repeated  forms of a mallow flower.

City: Hastings

PRISM

Simon Whatley, 2025

Freestanding

Description

A unique, interactive sculpture / play structure created in late 2025. Inspired by my longstanding admiration for the work of architects Sir John Soane and Aldo Rossi, PRISM was designed to be an intriguing, joyful and memorable sequence of spatial and multi-sensory experiences for younger children.   PRISM was exhibited...

Old Ghosts (sign writer)

Mick Peter, 2021

Freestanding Outdoors

Description

Year made: 2021 Materials: Hi Macs, Steel, Painted ply, rope  Dims: Sign 4m long

City: Glasgow

Life Raft

Ellie Harrison, 2015

Freestanding

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...

City: Upminster

A Moment

louise gibson, 2012

Freestanding Wall hung/Wall based

Description

750 x 220 x 510mm Total weight approx. 56 kilos Underskirts, resin Photography: © Christopher Lewis Cook

City: Edinburgh

Digitalis Gargantua

Aimee Lax, 2018

Freestanding Hung from above

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...

The Offering

Aimee Lax, 2018

Freestanding

Description

Nice Capture (Relief 2)

Kate V Robertson, 2022

Hung from above

Description

Cast concrete wall mounted relief sculpture. Cast of polystyrene packaging.

City: Glasgow

Radiotrophic

Aimee Lax, 2018

Freestanding

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...

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