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Public Vote to Select a New Sculpture for Spitalfields
Eight finalists have been selected for the inaugural Spitalfields Sculpture Prize. You can help select the sculpture to be sited in Spitalfields´ Bishops Square at the Spitalfields Sculpture Prize Shortlist Exhibition
Spitalfields Sculpture Prize Shortlist Exhibition
View the scale models of the eight shortlisted designs and vote for your favourite at the free exhibition in the foyer of the Allen & Overy offices on Bishops Square, next to the planned site of the sculpture.
Exhibition & Public Vote
15 January to 12 February 2010*
Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm. Saturday & Sunday 10am to 4pm
Foyer of Allen & Overy LLP, One Bishops Square, Spitalfields, London E1 6AD
*Public vote closes at 4pm on 07 February 2010.
Online Voting
If you can´t make the exhibition you can also vote online at www.spitalfields.co.uk/vote
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Spitalfields Sculpture Prize Shortlist
There are no stock public art proposals among the shortlist - all of the chosen artists have proposed artworks that respond to the site´s urban and historic surroundings. The result is a diverse range of works that have contemporary relevance, from the technologically-inspired Citygate by Paul Friedlander to the sculpted stone plinth of Ryan Gander.
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Wenqin Chen´s work Bring Out is a 10-metre stack of polished, red egg shapes in stainless steel which embodies the vigor and vitality of the sculpture´s location. It is a witty and strongly visual abstract work.
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Cinimod Studio has developed a sculptural lighting installation inspired by the area's history of dressmaking and silk trading. A rainbow of light bounces between two huge needles, created by the light as it is shone from the eye of one through the mist produced by the other. At ground levels sits the giant cocoon of a silkworm, slowly shimmering in different colours.
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Paul Friedlander has imagined a contemporary take on the gateway to the City that existed up until the mid 18th century. Here Friedlander builds on his previous kinetic light sculpture work looking at waves, in this instance holding them static and captured in time to form the outside of the gate. A `clockface´ screen will sit within the gate.
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Ryan Gander`s work is inspired by Oscar Wilde´s The Happy Prince, where a statue is gladly stripped of his riches by a swallow to help people in need around him. Carved in stone, the sculpture will depict a pile of rubble, the heart, sword and helmet of the prince along with the swallow. 50 school children from around Spitalfields will be asked to choose the two most precious things in the city to include in the sculpture.
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Elpida Hadzi Vasileva wants to use a semi-transparent maze of woven metal sheets, using silver and copper threads like silk to create new vistas of Spitalfields. The public can wonder through its fragile, organic form and look at local landmarks in new ways.
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Tod Hanson has designed a large built sculpture of a huge tailor´s dressform. Built in brick to represent the historic trade of Brick Lane, the shape is also that of a kiln and a chimney sits at the very top. The shape and silk patterns created with different colour bricks make it an ode to Spitalfields´ longstanding connection with the textile industry.
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Nick Hornby proposes a large scale, multi-faceted sculpture that merges six different aspects of Spitalfields - from its famous Christ Church to the profile of the Spitalfields Woman on display at the British Museum. It is a consistently changing 3-D piece into which visitors can read different images as they circle it. Hornby´s work has previously featured at the Hayward Gallery and Tate Britain.
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Kenny Hunter´s Scapegoat sees a hand-sculpted goat sit atop a stack of packing crates. A symbol of the various waves of migration that have found sanctuary in the area and helped to shape it, the goat also ties in with the various religious symbols of those communities that have made their homes nearby.
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Spitalfields Sculpture Prize Public Vote
To view scale models of these exciting sculptures and vote for your favourite, visit the Spitalfields Sculpture Prize Exhibition in the foyer of Allen & Overy in Bishops Square, Spitalfields.
Alternatively, you can vote online at www.spitalfields.co.uk/vote
Remember the public vote closes at 4pm on Sunday 07 February 2010.
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