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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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
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...
Fake Gold Ring
Janie Nicoll, 2008
Description
The sculpture is a copy of a ring found by the artist, and plays with the notions of value, scale and context. This sculpture was created for the exhibition ‘Meddle With The Devil’, at the Park Gallery, Falkirk as part of a year long residency undertaken by the artist at...
A Brief History of Privatisation
Ellie Harrison, 2011
Description
This interactive installation was created in 2011 for Harrison’s first solo exhibition in London at Watermans Arts Centre, also named ‘A Brief History of Privatisation’. It features six second-hand electronic massage chairs arranged in a circle, which are used to re-enact the history of UK public service policy over the...
