ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY, GARTHDEE PUBLIC ART & THE RIVERSIDE CAMPUS PUBLIC ART STRATEGY EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

Ian Banks Director of Atoll Monday 5th March 2012

Image: Bradford Mirror Pool City Park www.atoll-uk.com

Key Experience

Architect: 1986-2012

Chartered Architect with 26 years post-qualification experience including a diverse portfolio of designing and project managing major capital projects and public art and architecture collaborations both cultural and commercial.

www.atoll-uk.com

ACE NW: 2000-04

Officer involved throughout NW. Helped support key strategic projects, Local Authority Arts Officers and regional GftA bids for public realm. Created public art guidebook and public art northwest website and public art funding guidelines with ACE NW for NWDA in 2002.

www.publicartnorthwest.org.uk

Beam: 2005-2012

In 2006 wrote the 4.5 million funding plan and commissioning strategy for the Northern Ways Icons of the North public art strategy for Beam and Arts Council England. www.thenorthernway.co.uk

A&AJ: 2005-2012

Key Experience: Deputy Editor of Art & Architecture Journal since 2004. Regular articles written (for A&AJ as well as other publications), as well as strategic development work undertaken to develop A&AJ National Conferences. www.artandarchitecturejournal.com

Atoll: 2005-12

Co-Author in last 6 years of combined urban design and public realm frameworks (with Gillespies LLP) for Carlisle, Lancaster and Bradford City Councils; (with Beam) for Halton, Derby, Craven and Markham Vale Councils; and sole author of independent public art strategies for Sunderland, Wearmouth-Jarrow, Lancashire, Cheshire East and Chester & Cheshire West , Preston, St. Helens and Burnley Councils and Isle of Man Government.

www.atoll-uk.com

Recent Atoll Projects

Ian Banks

Developed 2007 Public Art at the Waterfront Strategy for Widnes Waterfront EDZ and Halton Borough Council, resulting in the commissioning of Tonkin Lius 150k Future Flower with wind-generated and interactive LED lighting in 2010.

www.widneswaterfront.co.uk

Ian Banks

Created Cyclorama orbit of city community gateways, with project / site feasibilities and precedent studies as part of the 2008 public art strategy and gateway strategy for Preston City Council.

www.atoll-uk.com

Ian Banks

Completed Cultural Strategy with Taylor Young in 2008 for Weaver Valley Regional Park. Strategy included project identification, feasibility and economic appraisal. www.weavervalley.org.uk

Ian Banks

Developed in 2009 the Universala public art interpretation strategy for WearmouthJarrow UNESCO bid to celebrate St Bede and develop connected dual media and light installations between St Peters church, Wearmouth and St Pauls church in Jarrow. Solicited Lead Artists are Nayan Kulkarni, Jason Bruges, Amenity Space and Jo Fairfax.

www.wearmouth-jarrow.org.uk

Ian Banks

CreativityWorks award-winning Hiddenplace mini-festival co-curated with artist Noah Rose in 2009. Works of 7 young local artist included performance, film & mobile cinema and a graphic novel amongst others. Project involved mentoring artists.

www.hiddenplace.org.uk

Ian Banks

Commissioned by Atoll, and filmed over 1 year, artist Patricia MacKinnon-Day created Private Views Made Public, a time-lapse film that shared a unique viewpoint and moments of contemplation as they looked out across six spectacular landscapes along midCheshires Sandstone Ridge. The artist worked with six local people who owned spectacular private panoramic views of the six historical hillforts. www.mackinnon-day.com

Ian Banks

Design Team collaboration 2008-2010 with Landscape Architects Gillespies, and Engineers Arup on public art strategy for 24m Bradford Mirror Pool. Commissions for Janek Schaefer (sound installation), Wolfgang Buttress (sculptural light columns) and Haque Design + Research (interactive light projection & new media).

www.gillespies.co.uk

Ian Banks

Commissioned integrated street art completed in Sunderland with commissioned Berlin artists KAPOK developing through R&D, a prototype for urban accupuncture and pressure points via new lighting, sunlight reflectors and sound friggers with Lightfolio, Aurora lighting contractors and US sound artist Bill Fontana. Other commissions included SDNA TV video projections and Charlie Davidson street furniture. www.sunnisidepartnerhip.co.uk

Ian Banks

Acting as current Arts Strategist and Curator for the Shine Local Education Partnertship for Blackburn with Darwen delivering 4 Lead Artist % For Art programmes worth circa 1m over 8 new or refurbished BSF Schools all currently on site and valued at 100m. http://shine-lep.blogspot.com

Recent Clive Gillman Projects

Clive Gillman

Metroscopes uses the internet as a barometer for representing current thinking about a particular place. By sampling live information from across the globe the piece represents this thinking through a constantly changing active lighting display in Ropewalks Square, Liverpool. www.mg.u-net.com/metroscopes.htm

Clive Gillman

Drake Street Observatory aimed to look at the detail of Drake Street in Rochdale, to record the signs and structures of a topography at the end of one stage of its life. To do this not with false nostalgia but to map the street and its life and to represent this back to its inhabitants. www.mg.u-net.com/drakestreet/home.html

Clive Gillman

FACT Lead Artist working with the architect, Austin-Smith:Lord, to develop a number of features for the building. The subsequent approach was based on the theme of the selfreflexive building a building providing features that reflect its life and functions back to its inhabitants www.mg.u-net.com/fc.htm

Clive Gillman

In Route One for Huddersfield the purpose was to support the visitor in locating and enjoying the gallery. But to do so by using route-marking signage to create statements about the architecture, purpose and design of the gallery www.mg.u-net.com/routeone.htm

Recent Lightfolio Projects

Reg Gove

Clydebank Railway Bridge www.lightfolio.co.uk

Reg Gove

The Big Heids www.lightfolio.co.uk

Reg Gove

Abbortsford Steeple www.lightfolio.co.uk

Reg Gove

Argyle Road Underpass www.lightfolio.co.uk

ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY, GARTHDEE PUBLIC ART & THE RIVERSIDE CAMPUS PUBLIC ART STRATEGY EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

Ian Banks Director of Atoll Monday 5th March 2012