Friday 24 June 2011

London 2012 Festival

English Flower Garden: Paul Cummins

'Ceramic artist Paul Cummins will create a quintessentially English flower garden made of 10,000 individual ceramic blooms, on a potter’s wheel. This amazing creative feat will then be ‘planted’ in several outdoor locations around England. Part of Unlimited: the largest commission for disability arts in the UK.'

This is one of the many events/commissions going on in relation to the London 2012 Festival.

'The London 2012 Festival is the finale of the four-year Cultural Olympiad, taking place from 21 June to 9 September 2012.
Complementing the sport events at the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Festival will be the biggest party the UK has ever seen, with a huge range of events from leading artists from all over the world. '

These are the so far announced events in the art and heritage/museums catergories;
ART
• Adain Avion: Marc Rees, Wales
• A Bigger Picture: David Hockney, Royal Academy, London
• BP Portrait Awards: Next Generation, National Portrait Gallery, London
• BT Road to 2012, National Portrait Gallery, London
• Caution: Sinead O’Donnell, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
• Column: Anthony McCall, Birkenhead
• Martin Creed, UK wide
• Olafur Eliasson, new commission
• English Flower Garden: Paul Cummins, UK wide
• Forest Pitch: Craig Coulthard, Selkirk
• Lucian Freud, National Portrait Gallery, London
• Global Alchemy: Rachel Gadsden, Cambridge and London
• Hang on a minute, lads, I’ve got a great idea: Richard Wilson, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
• Damien Hirst, Tate Modern, London
• Anish Kapoor, Olympic Park, London
• London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Posters, Tate Britain, London
• Metamorphosis: Titian 2012: National Gallery, Wayne McGregor, Royal Ballet, London
• Tino Sehgal, Tate Modern, London
• Rachel Whiteread, Whitechapel Gallery, London

HERITAGE & MUSEUMS
• BP Portrait Awards: Next Generation, National Portrait Gallery, London
• BP Shakespeare's Theatre of the World: British Museum, London
• BT Road to 2012, National Portrait Gallery, London
• Golden Threads: Bradford Museum, Bradford
• Local Global: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton
• London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Posters, Tate Britain, London
• The Olympic Journey: The Story of the Games, Royal Opera House, London
There are also events in the catergories Free, Carnival, Comedy, Dance, Film, TV & Digital, Literature, Theatre & Performance.


[i am going to try and add links to each event]

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