One Aldwych Hotel

Art Contact was engaged to undertake a full audit, including condition report, of One Aldwych Hotel’s wonderful art collection amassed over thirty years.

Several days were spent at the hotel collating and photographing 280 artwork hung throughout the hotel corridors and rooms including sculptures displayed in the public areas including works by Emily Young (limestone carved head of Dionysus), Andre Wallace (The Boatman with Oars) and Justine Smith (two pop-art paper mâché dog’s one decorated with Beano cartoons and the other English Pound notes).

The collection also includes works by Jaroslav Rossler, Keith Millow, Joost Beerents, Ronald Grierson and Enid Martin, Richard Bartle, Nick Malone, Arabelle Sim, Keith Grant and Philip Diggle to mention a few.

Art Contact were delighted to be engaged to start the process of bringing the artwork back to life by reviewing each artwork creating a detailed catalogue including replacement value and condition report being the first stage in developing a suggested care programme to maintain the collection.

  • Object – Audit of Art Collection including Condition Monitoring
  • Client – One Aldwych Hotel
  • Sector – Hotel and Leisure
  • Location – Aldwych, London
  • Status – Complete
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Curry Lover Lover

Curry Lover Lover required art to help improve the ambience of their restaurant – The Tamarind in Potters Bar. They had recently refurbished the restaurant and needed art to further enhance the ambience.

Art Contact sourced and selected the art which the client decided to rent rather than buy as it helped their cash flow following the refurbishment.

A large mirror was also included to bring more light into an otherwise slightly dark area in the restaurant.

The artworks were framed very simply in polished wooden frames and installed out of hours at the request of the client.

  • Object – Source & Supply Rented art for Restaurant
  • Client – Curry Lover Lover Ltd
  • Sector – Hotel & Leisure
  • Location – Potters Bar
  • Status – On-going
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Larimar

Art Contact was approached to source and supply suitable artworks for a sample room for a new hotel in the Philippines. Working entirely from architectural drawings and mood boards the artwork and framing was selected and agreed.

Once agreed the pictures were framed, packed for shipment and sent by air freight to their final destination in the Phillipines.

See below a selection of the pictures supplied.

  • Object – Source and supply artworks for sample hotel room in Manilla in the Phillipines
  • Client – Larimar
  • Sector – Hotel & Leisure
  • Location –  Manilla, Phillipines
  • Status – Completed
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Grove Hotel – Expressions of Movement

Following the great success of the previous exhibition Art Contact was again approached to organise another sculpture exhibition in the Grounds of the Grove Hotel near Watford.

In close collaboration with the hotel staff, the sculptures and exhibition locations were selected and Art Contact made the necessary arrangements for the installation of the exhibition including making the arrangements for any specialist equipment to be available.

The installation took about a week and the exhibition ran for about 6 months.

The time scale from the initial inquiry to the opening of the show was about 9 months.

A selection of the sculptures shown can be seen below.

The full catalogue can be downloaded.

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  • Object – To arrange another sculpture exhibition in the gardens and grounds of the Grove Hotel
  • Client – The Grove Hotel
  • Sector – Hotel & Leisure
  • Location –  Watford
  • Status – Completed
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Grove Hotel – Sculpture at the Grove

Art Contact were approached by the Grove Hotel near Watford to arrange a sculpture exhibition in the grounds of the hotel. In excess of 50 locations were identified in the grounds and Art Contact created a portfolio of suggested sculptures. In close collaboration with the hotel staff the final sculptures were selected and their proposed locations for the exhibition agreed.

Art Contact made the arrangements with the sculptors and specialist equipment suppliers. With the assistance of the hotel staff the exhibition was installed over a period of a week and ran for about 6 months.

The project took about 12 months to organise from the time we were first approached to the opening of the exhibition.

See below a selection of images of sculptures in the show.

The full catalogue can also be downloaded.

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  • Object – To arrange a sculpture exhibition in the gardens and grounds of the Grove Hotel
  • Client – The Grove Hotel
  • Sector – Hotel & Leisure
  • Location –  Watford
  • Status – Completed
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Runnymede Hotel – Lock Restaurant

New Lock Restaurant at the Runnymede Hotel has been completed.

Padlocks and Keys have been mounted in a inventive way – like jewels in a velvet mount.

  • Object – Sorce, select and supply artwork for the Lock Restaurant at the Runnymede Hotel.
  • Client – Runnymede-On-Thames
  • Sector – Hospitality
  • Location – Runnymede, Surrey
  • Status – Completed
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The Runnymede Hotel – Runnymede-On-Thames

Over a period of time Art Contact was commissioned to commission and supply artworks for various areas within the hotel.

A large panoramic view of the Thames by one of our photographers for the link corridor. The image, taken on the banks of the Thames just up the river from the Runnymede Hotel, is mounted onto an aluminium panel in order to create a strong contemporary look.

 

A series of paintings were also commissioned for various areas within the hotel depicting local scenes in Runnymede and on the Thames.

A tapestry of ‘River Birches’, in silk and copper wire. The brief was to ‘soften’ the travertine wall in the Left Bank Restaurant area. In keeping with the restaurants theme of ‘nature’, Art Contact commissioned the artist to create a 2400 x 1370mm tapestry which was mounted using 50mm diameter stainless steel tubes.

  • Object – Source, select and commission various artworks for the Runnymede Hotel
  • Client – Runnymede Hotel
  • Sector – Hospitality
  • Location – Runnymede-on-Thames, Surrey
  • Status – Completed
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Limberhurst Gallery – Sculptures at Limberhurst

In conjunction with Limberhurst Gallery a summer exhibition of interior and exterior sculptures was arranged at Limberhurst Arts Centre near Cambridge.

Works by the following 34 artists were exhibited:

Dan Archer, Patrick Barker,
Dorothy Brook, John Brown,
Dick Budden, Mat Chivers,
Alan Foxley, Mel Fraser,
Fiona Goldbacher, Lee Granjean,

Simon Hitchens, Peter Leadbeater,
Heidi Lichterman,
Pierre Diamantopoulo,
David and Dante MacIlwaine,
Malcolm Martin & Gaynor Dowling,
Bernard McGuigan, Adrian Moakes,
Nicholas Moreton, Louise Plant,
Jim Rattenbury, Kate Risdale,
Colin Rose, Teo San Jose,
Matt Sanderson, Andrea Schulewitz,
Matt Stein, Richard Thornton,
Lucy Unwin, Ronald Westerhuis,
Alan Wilson, Deon Winter,
Rachel Wood & Stephen Wright

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  • Object – To arrange a sculpture exhibition in the gallery and grounds of Limberhurst Gallery.
  • Client – Limberhurst Gallery
  • Sector – Hotel & Leisure
  • Location –  nr Cambridge
  • Status – Completed
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Bovis Lend Lease – Warrington, ‘Lewis Carroll’s Cat’

Commissioned on behalf of Bovis Lend Lease for the Golden Square Retail Mall, Warrington by Art Contact.

A 3-part ‘parallax’ installation along the East Street approach to the NW Knuckle. Commissioned in Anodised Aluminium to overall dimensions 3m (diameter) x 5m (spread).

This was a highly effective ‘parallax’ sculpture which seemed to assemble and de-assemble as approached along ‘East Street’. Parallax sculptures are designed to be seem ‘whole’ from one location, from all other positions they are in various stages of assembly.

  • Object – Source, select and commission sculpture for shopping centre
  • Client – Bovis Lend Lease
  • Sector – Retail
  • Location – Warrington
  • Status – Completed
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Bovis Lend Lease – Warrington, ‘Aurora’

Commissioned on behalf of Bovis Lend Lease for the Golden Square Retail Mall, Warrington by Art Contact.

Dichroic glass light sculpture by Chris Wood, consisting of 24 rails, each 2m long, with 9 dichroic glass elements 100 x 100mm on powder-coated stainless steel rails, installed within the roof cupola at the SE Knuckle.

As well as creating interest in the cupola, Aurora also displays a colourful pattern on the floor below which is constantly changing dependant on the direction of the light from outside.

  • Object – Source, select and commission artwork for shopping centre
  • Client – Bovis Lend Lease
  • Sector – Retail
  • Location – Warrington
  • Status – Completed
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Bovis Lend Lease – Warrington, ‘Swift’

Commissioned on behalf of Bovis Lend Lease for the Golden Square Retail Mall, Warrington by Art Contact. Multi-elements in stainless steel are suspended over the escalator void in the Transport Interchange Hall.

‘Swift’ a suspended installation representing a swift in full flight was commissioned in anodised stainless steel to add interest to the void in the roof space above the escalator in the Transport Interchange Hall.

 

  • Object – Source, select and commission sculpture for shopping centre
  • Client – Bovis Lend Lease
  • Sector – Retail
  • Location – Warrington
  • Status – Completed
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Limberhurst Gallery – Through the Eyes of the Artist

Through the Eyes of the Artist – an exhibition of sculpture by 32 contemporary sculptors.

The show featured internal and external sculptures by the following artists:

Dan Archer, Dorothy Brook,
John Brown, Joanna Burchell,
Stephanie Carlton-Smith,
Alan Foxley, Mel Fraser, Lee Granjean,
Melanie Guy, Peter Hayes,

Sue Kafka-Ellis, Eleanor Long,
James Mayberley,
David & Dante MacIlwaine,
Malcolm Martin & Gaynor Dowling,
Adrian Mokes, Peter Newsome,
Jim Rattenbury, Louise Plant,
Mark Richards, Kate Risdale,
Colin Rose, Matt Stein, David Undery,
Ronald Weisterhuis,
Dennis Westwood, Julian Wilde,
Alan Wilson, Martha Winter,
Chris Wood & Stephen Wright

  • Object – To arrange a sculpture exhibition in the gallery and grounds of Limberhurst Gallery.
  • Client – Limberhurst Gallery
  • Sector – Hotel & Leisure
  • Location –  nr Cambridge
  • Status – Completed
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Crowne Plaza Hotel

Use of minimalist art and Perspex box framing add bright contemporary style to the new Crowne Plaza Hotel in Marlow.
Working closely with Design Coalition and the Hotel’s owner, Art Contact commissioned five artists to produce a series of paintings and works on paper.

 

All works were produced and installed within a tight deadline to be ready for the opening.

A very large painting by Ian Wilkinson was installed in the conference room. Other works include a series of 12 photographs by Anne Hardy and a bronze sculpture for the downstairs bar.

  • Object – Source,select and supply artworks for the public areas of the hotel.
  • Client – Crowne Plaza Hotel
  • Sector – Hotel
  • Location – Marlow
  • Status – Completed
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Limberhurst Gallery – Through the Lens of the Artist

Through the Lens of the Artist was an exhibition of photographs arranged by Art Contact at the Limberhurst Gallery. There were 7 photographers exhibited some being very well established and others that were just starting out.

 

The photographers exhibited were:

Justin de Villeneuve
John Swannell
Charlie Waite
Den Philips
Noel Myles
 Rosy McGuire
Tolly Nason

  • Object – To arrange a exhibition at Limberhurst Gallery
  • Client – Limberhurst Gallery
  • Sector – Hotel & Leisure
  • Location –  nr Cambridge
  • Status – Completed
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Prague Hilton Hotel

Hilton Hotel, Old Town, Prague

Brief was to commission a number of both figurative and architectural paintings in the constructive style.

Commissioned on behalf of David Collins.

  • Object – Source, select and commission artwork for Prague Hotel.
  • Client – Hilton Hotels
  • Sector – Hospitality
  • Location – Old Town, Prague
  • Status – Completed
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