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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Will-o-the-Wisp
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...
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...
Naked Truths 2018
Louise Gibson, 2018
Description
Steel bath, resin, mattress foam, resin, lacqueri)690x715x1610mmii)660x900x1190mm photography @erikastevenson
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...
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.
Gerroff!! (or User Feedback) sculpture group 1
Mick Peter, 2021
Description
Year made: 2021 Materials: Hi Macs and steel Dims: middle figure 225cm
Outside the box of triangulation at the end of the low hanging fruit
Elke Finkenauer, 2015