Sculpture and Sport a Celebration for 2012

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS:

Paralympic Sculpture Exhibition: Open University Library, Milton Keynes
18th January - 14th March 2012

Manches LLP, Oxford Office:
3rd January - February 2012

Deloitte London Head Office:
8th September 2011 - February 2012

Visit an exhibition of the full collection in 2012

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford:
19th March - 20th May 2012

Victoria Art Gallery, Bath:
26th May - 1st July 2012

Bloomsbury Art Fair, London:
6th July - 8th July 2012

Oxo Tower Gallery, London:
31st July - 13th August 2012

Granary Square, Kings Cross Central, London:
29th August - 9th September 2012

Past Previews

(Note: If you would like to host a preview of the collection please contact riann@artattheedge.org)

CircleBath, Peasedown St John:
11th February - 24th March 2011

KPMG Head Offices, Canada Square and Salisbury Square:
25th March - 25th May 2011

The Bristol Gallery:
6th June - 26th June 2011

Life-size Judo at CircleBath, Peasedown St John:
1st August - end of November 2011

Heathrow Airport, Terminal 5:
3rd July - 30th September 2011

GlaxoSmithKline, Brentford London:
23rd July - September 2011

Loughborough University:
4th October - 30th November 2011

Heathrow Airport, Terminal 5, BA First Class Lounge:
26th October - end of December 2011

Nikki Taylor’s Wire mesh sculptures on display at Terminal 5’s Royal Suite Atrium:
January - end of February 2012

The Project

Art At The Edge CIC, with the full support and encouragement of the Bath and North East Somerset Council and Future Bath Plus, has commissioned a collection of 30 bronze sculptural studies of different Olympic and Paralympic sports. These will be shown in Bath in the summer of 2012 at the Victoria Art Gallery. In addition, there will be a city-wide sport themed sculpture trail featuring 10 life-sized sculptures in dramatic settings. The launch of the sculpture trail will coincide with the Olympic Torch coming to Bath on May 22nd, 2012. During this period Bath will also be hosting the Fringe Arts Bath 2012 visual arts festival (see www.fringeartsbath.co.uk)

This public art event will celebrate sport and Bath’s links to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The University of Bath is hosting the British Paralympic team’s preparations for 2012 and Team Bath has been and will continue to be the training facility for Olympic and Paralympic medal winners.

In order to promote the project, parts of the collection will be previewed in a number of venues outside of Bath (including Bristol, Heathrow and London). The full collection will also be exhibited at the Ashmolean, Oxford and the Oxo Tower Gallery, London.

The project’s cultural legacy will be two permanent sculptures honouring Bath’s Olympic heroes and six “Art in the City” sculpture sites, which will facilitate future sculpture exhibitions.

The profits from the project will be used to support disadvantaged and disabled young people through the life changing work of the Youth Sport Trust and the British Paralympic Association. 

Art at the Edge is a community interest company limited by guarantee.

The collection is fully funded and has begun to generate income through sales

A generous donation from the Roper Family Charitable Trust combined with residual funds raised by a previous public art project provided the necessary finance. 

There is a total of thirty 1:5 scale studies of Olympic and Paralympic sports, cast in bronze as limited editions by Pangolin Editions, Europe’s leading sculpture foundry. 

The sculptors have been selected from across the UK to contribute different approaches and styles and to reflect a cross-section of contemporary British sculpture.  Each sculptor chose a different sport and was given the opportunity to liaise with a representative of their chosen sport’s national governing body to gain insight into its character and dynamics.

Twenty nine sculptures are already completed and the 30th sculpture has been selected via an open sculpture competition.
All sculptures are for sale as limited editions. Prices range from £2500 to £5000. Already, even before our exhibition programme has started, 10 have been sold. 

In addition, we have launched a Lottery. Ticket cost £10 and winners can choose any sculpture from the collection as their prize.

Plans for the public art event in Bath have been agreed

In 2012, from May to July, the full collection of 30 bronze studies will be on display at the Victoria Art Gallery. During this same period 10 additional life-sized sculptures will be on display in Bath’s public spaces as part of a visually exciting city-wide sport themed sculpture trail. 

The life-sized sculptures and the sculpture trail is a work in progress

All of the sculptures for the sculpture trail either already exist or are being worked on but the sites where the sculptures will be displayed still need to be prepared.

Three of the sculptures will be scaled-up versions of the sculptural studies in the collection.

Seven sculptures will be the work of additional Guest Artists who have been invited to produce sculptures for the project.

Three of the sculptures will depict Olympic heroes who trained at the University of Bath: Mark Foster, Jason Gardener and Amy Williams. 

The sculptures will be displayed in 10 different locations across Bath, six of which are the “Art in the City” legacy sites, which will become the permanently designated areas for public sculpture exhibitions in 2013 and beyond.

The “Art in the City” legacy sites will be located in Parade Gardens, Queens Square, Sydney Gardens, Victoria Park, Green Park and Saw Close.

A sculpture trail map will be produced providing the ideal vehicle to communicate to the public information about our Supporters and their organisations.

We need to raise a minimum of an additional £80,000 to deliver this phase of the project.

Current Location of Sculptures:

Manches LLP, Oxford

 

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Deloitte, London

(please contact riann@artattheedge.org to arrange viewing)

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