Spitalfields Public Art 2007-08
Have your fill of new art installations located in various venues around Spitalfields
This month, five all new installations will be launched at Spitalfields as part of Spitalfields on-going commitment to supporting and showcasing the arts.
All five artists are from Britain, America and Australia and have strong connections to the Spitalfields community and incorporate a wide range of mediums including sound pieces, projected images and sculpture.
The works, located in Market Street and on Bishops Square, take many varied forms, ranging from Kerry Andrews' sound piece audible in and around the Charnel House, which captures the history and context of Spitalfields using layered recordings; Craft and Pegg's relief map of the little known civil war defences in Spitalfields, overlain with projected images and located near Spittal Square; Simeon Nelson's responds to the architecture in Market Street using his own motifs, which derive from interior detailing in local Huguenot houses; David Rhys Jones' sculptural steel forms display enigmatic or thoughtful photographic images from Spitalfields, whilst providing a playful 'walk-though' route in Bishops Square. Eleonora Aguiari's bright red Church from Phase One, located at the entrance to Bishops' Square, has gradually become identified with the area and has been selected to remain on site.
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How to get there
The closest tube stations are at Liverpool Street and Aldgate East. If on the bus the 15, 25, 40, 42, 67, 78, 100, 115, 205 and 254 all serve Aldgate.
