Projects
Channel 4 Big Art Project
| Date: | 2008 |
| Artist: | Rafael Lozano-Hemmer |
| Location: | Cardigan, Wales |
Internationally renowned artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is
invited by Cardigan to create an interactive artwork as
part of Channel 4’s Big Art Project.
Artist impression of Rafael's proposed artwork, Turbulence.
The Big Art Project is an ambitious public art commissioning initiative from Channel 4, supported by Arts Council England and The Art Fund, to inspire and create new public art across the UK. Progress is being filmed for a major Channel 4 series to be broadcast at the end of November 2008.
Cardigan was one of seven UK sites selected to take part in The Big Art Project, nominated by members of the public. In 2005 people across the country were invited to nominate sites they felt would benefit from an art installation. More than 1,400 nominations were received. The seven sites selected were Beckton, Belfast, Burnley, the Isle of Mull, Sheffield, St.Helens and Cardigan.
Since then a Steering Group, made up of Cardigan residents, working with Safle and the Big Art Team has chosen artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer who proposed a new work for Prince Charles Quay. The work, titled Turbulance, is a direct response to the turbulent nature of the Teifi Estuary in its twice daily tidal cycle, as well as the close and historic relationship between the town, its residents and the river.