Public Art Survey: Cardboard

Construction

Prize Winners Announcement

Cardboard Works

Prize Winners

The Royal Standard Turner Prize Extravaganza! Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool 2007.

In Turner Prize nominee Nathan Coley’s laborious durational work, ‘The Lamp of Sacrifice, 161 Places of Worship, Birmingham 2000’, the artist turned the second floor of Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery into a workshop, in which he constructed cardboard models of the city’s 161 places of worship for the duration of the exhibition, As It Is. Through this active and time consuming process, Coley was attempting to investigate the complex relationship between social and architectural structure within the urban system, with ‘an interrogation of the seen and unseen systems’ present within the built environment. Participants in Public Art Survey: Cardboard were assigned one piece of public art from within the city of Liverpool to recreate using only their imagination and the materials in the kits provided. For Coley’s Birmingham exhibition, the artist allowed a prolonged period of time in which to painstakingly maintain accurate proportions for each model; at this event however we had only four hours. At the end of the evening the models were be appraised by a panel of The Royal Standard curators and myself, and a winner will be announced. The winner will then be presented with the complete collection of cardboard models.