Projects
Saint David's 2
| Date: | 2008 - 2009 |
| Artist: | Various |
| Location: | Cardiff, South Wales |
Jennie Savage’s screening in Wyndham Arcade, as part of the Arcades project in collaboration with g39 gallery.
St David’s 2 is a £675 million development in the heart of Cardiff City Centre, due to be completed in 2009. Produced by ‘The St David’s Partnership’ (a joint venture between Land Securities, Capital Shopping Centres and Cardiff County Council), the scheme will create 967,500 sq ft (89,891 sq m) of retail-led mixed-use space, including a major John Lewis store, a string of small to medium sized shops, various public amenities, public spaces and a state of the art civic library.
More than 300 residential units fronting the Hayes will also be created, which will further extend the usage of the area beyond normal trading hours by bringing round the clock life and vitality to what will be effectively a new City Quarter.
In 2006 Safle, then CBAT The Arts & Regeneration Agency, was commissioned to produce a detailed strategy for the integration of Public Art within the scheme. Safle has since been appointed to realise a £1.5 million Public Art programme that will result in the commissioning of a number of exciting and innovative, permanent and temporary art projects over the next three years. These projects include a major signature artwork at a crucial new section of Cardiff’s public realm, an artist designed integrated lighting scheme within the external fabric of a new car park, seven multi-artform artist commissions to develop varied proposals for integrating site specific work throughout the internal and external areas and two integrated artist projects for the bulk head and floor at the internal intersection of the St David’s 1 and 2 shopping centres. There is also The Arcades Project, an artist-led investigation into Cardiff’s historic Victorian and Edwardian Arcades and the new St David’s 2 Arcade plus the engagement of four international photographers to develop a portfolio of work based around the city, its architecture and its residents.
All projects are currently underway and will be complete in line with the development’s completion deadline in 2009.