Artist book documenting the Wrights and Sites’s public art project commissioned as part of Sea Change programme, a national initiative to support the rivitalisation of British seaside towns in 2010. Includes found material, photographs and conversations exploring the context of regeneration in contemporary art practices. Includes press release leaflet.
Artist/Author: various | Editor: Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles | Reference: P1545 | ISBN: 9781906496425 | Type: Publication
As the Creative City model for urban regeneration founders on the rocks of the recession, and the New Labour public art commissioning frenzy it triggered recedes, the authors take stock of an era of highly instrumentalised public art making.