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East Bank Art for London Sculpture Week 2024
24/09/2024 12:30-13:30
East Bank Art for London Sculpture Week 2024
24/09/2024 12:30-13:30
Welcome to East Bank Art for London Sculpture Week 2024! Join us in person at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park for a celebration of sculpture at East Bank. Immerse yourself in the creativity of talented artists showcasing their unique pieces. You will be guided by the Director of East Bank, Stratford Waterfront Public Art Curator and LLDC's Head of Landscape & Public Realm. Don't miss this exciting event where art comes to life!
East Bank is the UK’s newest cultural quarter at the heart of the Park. It is comprised of V&A East; Sadler’s Wells East; London College of Fashion, UAL; UCL East (University College London) and the new BBC Music Studios. The scheme, driven with significant backing and funding from the Mayor of London and support from HM Government and the four boroughs.
London Sculpture Week
London Sculpture Week
This year for London Sculpture Week, we bring together two Mayor of London initiatives. The Fourth Plinth and East Bank’s public realm commissions spanning central and east London. In east London visitors can enjoy three public art commissions across East Bank. Lemon Meringue by Michael Landy has been installed along the waterfront at East Bank and celebrates traditional and newly invented Cockney Rhyming Slang in a series of large fluorescent signs. Lubna Chowdhary’s Temporal Trace, inspired by the South Indian ritual of “Kolam”, is a large-scale permanent drawing of fluid lines and dots across the waterfront. Artist duo A.A. Murakami, have created the sculpture In Mountains Shadow, composed of overlapping mesh screens designed to slow the wind.
In Trafalgar Square you will find Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times and Instant) by Teresa Margolles. The sculpture is made up of plaster casts of the faces of hundreds of trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people. These casts were created by applying plaster directly onto people’s faces, creating a portrait of the trans community and shows the solidarity between transgender and gender non-conforming people from across the globe.
Join Tamsin Ace (Director of East Bank), Louise Trodden (Public Realm Curator for Stratford Waterfront) and Ruth Lin Wong Holmes (Head of Landscape & Public Realm) for an fascinating introduction to East Bank, the art commissions for Stratford Waterfront and the Art in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Programme
Programme
Key artworks commission by London Legacy Development Corporation as part of the Mayor of London's East Bank project:
Lemon Meringue - Michael Landy
Temporal Trace - Lubna Chowdhary
In Mountains Shadow - A.A. Murakami
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Biography
Tamsin Ace, Director of East Bank
Tamsin became Head of Cultural Programming at LCF in 2021, leading its inaugural cultural offer on the East Bank in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. During her time at LCF Tamsin developed the new culture strategy, built a new programming team and led curation for the launch season. This included a dynamic programme of co-curation projects, live performance and exhibitions, highlighting world-class research, teaching and ideas of the LCF community and further building LCF's reputation as a pivotal cultural destination for fashion innovation and sustainable practice. Tamsin was previously Director of Creative Programmes and Collections at the newly renovated Museum of the Home, where she also introduced a new cultural strategy and creative methodology as part of the organisation’s transformation programme. Prior to this role Tamsin spent 12 years at Southbank Centre, eventually becoming Head of Public Programming. Tamsin's responsibilities included curating an ambitious programme of annual festivals and special projects. Tamsin led several innovative festivals including Imagine Children's Festival, Winter/Summer Festivals and Unlimited. In her time at this organisation, her work saw her collaborate with a wide range of partners and collaborators which ranged from hundreds of schools, high-profile artists, and commercial partners.
Louise Trodden, Independent Art Curator & Producer
For the last twenty-five years Louise has focused on how art can be part of London’s public spaces. She has worked at many different scales from infrastructure projects, regeneration schemes, public buildings and housing developments to small-scale community programmes. As well as collaborating with artists, communities and clients to develop new projects, she has advised some of London’s strategic organisations including the Olympic Delivery Authority, GLA and various local authorities. Recent projects have been with the London Legacy Development Corporation and the East Bank Partners, HS1, Chase Farm Hospital and the Tideway Tunnel. She has previously been Head of Art in the Open, Open City, and a Commissions Manager for Modus Operandi Art Consultants.
