Land Securities Group are building the ‘Trinity Leeds’ new retail&leisure destination in the heart of Leeds city centre. The scheme will be completed and open in Spring2013. Land Securities has developed and owns a number of retail and business centres across the UK and has achieved success with the commissioning of Art internally and externally in many locations. www.landsecurities.com
‘Trinity Leeds’ is inviting creative practitioners, artists, artist collaborations, designers, organisations to take part and submit proposals for the following commissions that form part of the Art Programme. There are three key elements to the programme.
1) Commissioning of Permanent Artworks (these involve open commissions and short listed invitations)
2) Commissioning of Temporary Artworks
3) Shadow Placement Programme
Artist Briefs and drawing attachments for the open commissions can be downloaded from the links below and saved directly to your computer. If you are unable to access the links then please email and they can be sent by email zipped folder or *by special request on a CD that will be sent first class in the post from Antonia Stowe the Art Facilitator at Trinity Leeds. antonia@antoniastowe.com
Commission 1 – Holy Trinity Church Public Realm
To create a sculptural ‘object’ or group of ‘objects’ around Holy Trinity Church a historical character listed building amongst whose purpose could be to perch, play, sit, balance, stand, jump, run around and act as a barrier/bollards.
The commission brief and drawings can be saved to your computer as a ZIP file by clicking the link below;
Sculptural Objects Holy Trinity Church Design Brief Trinity Leeds
Deadline for submission= Friday 11th November 2011
Commission 2 – Rooftop Garden
To create a site-specific permanent artwork installation sited on the roof of ‘Trinity Leeds’ shopping centre.
The commission brief and drawings can be saved to your computer as a ZIP file by clicking the link below;
Rooftop Garden Artist Brief Trinity Leeds
Deadline for submission= Monday 14th November 2011
Commission 3 – Internal Seating
To commission an artist/designer to create nine internal seating/benches for their Trinity Leeds shopping centre. The seats will be located on different levels of the shopping centre and in different locations.
The commission brief and drawings can be saved to your computer as a ZIP file by clicking the link below;
Internal Seating Design Brief Trinity Leeds
Deadline for submission= Friday 11th November 2011
Commission 4 – Temporary Creative Interventions
As part of the Art Programme, Land Securities wishes to commission artists and creative organisations to interact with the ‘Trinity Leeds’ shopping centre building scheme from now until the opening in spring 2013 and beyond. Whoever you are and if you have a creative idea and a proposal put it together and send it in!
The commission brief and drawings can be accessed and will open up as a PDF file by clicking;
Temporary Creative Proposals Trinity Leeds
Deadline for first round submission= Monday 28th November 2011
THE commissioner would like to encourage, receive & prioritise proposals from creative practitioners/organisations/ who reside and work in the region but will not rule out commissioning proposals from practitioners who work outside the region.
Disclaimer: *By special arrangement the art facilitator will email zipped folders or send the CD’s first class in the post but is not responsible for the artist deadlines should the postal service not deliver on time! Please email antonia@antoniastowe.com