Roche Diagnostics

A collection of contemporary art in which the subjects relate to nature, people and the area local to Burgess Hill.

The redeveloped building was decorated to a very high standard in a contemporary style, with attention to the smallest of details.

A brief was given to Art Contact to include ‘nature, people and the local area’ into the subject manner. These were included but not always in the most literal of senses, encouraging the staff and visitors to think about the works exhibited. Contemporary glassware was also commissioned including an illuminated plinth to light the glass works from beneath.

  • Object – Source, select and commission a collection of artworks for their new offices.
  • Client – Roche Diagnostic
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Burgess Hill
  • Status – Completed
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Association of British Insurers

A selection of historical stained glass panels were reused and modernised into a light box to fit the company’s contemporary space.

Art Contact also selected and supplied a number of abstract contemporary artworks for the meeting rooms and other spaces around the building.

  • Object – Restoration of stained glass panels and supply of display.
  • Client – Association of British Insurers
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – City of London
  • Status – Completed
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Taylor Wessing

Our brief was to incorporate existing artwork into the company’s contemporary offices, as well as to provide further artwork to complement the existing collection for the client facing areas on the 9th and 10th floors at New Gate Square.

As well as providing a full audit of their collection, Art Contact also sourced a variety of items producing an extensive portfolio from which the final items were selected.

The  existing collection and the new artworks were framed or re-framed as required to suit the decor of the new offices and installed as planned.

Object

  • Audit Collection, source select and supply artworks to complement the existing collection

Client

  • Taylor Wessing

Sector

  • Corporate

Location

  • City Of London

Status

  • Completed
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The Waldron Health Centre

The Waldron Health Centre, based in New Cross, groups 5 local GP practices along with ancillary community services (Pharmacy, Mother & Baby services, Community Youth Programmes, etc) into a building at the heart of the New Cross locality. The building benefits from a full-height atrium, clad in beech veneer, being he chosen location for  ‘New Cross’ montage which was commissioned for the 2nd Floor.

The montage, featuring local noteworthy architecture, highlights the rich mix of styles and forms that is the glory of urban London. The soft, pastel colourway was selected to harmonise both with the beech veneer of the atrium and with a dichroic film panel installation, installed as part of the build phase, on the 1st Floor.

In 2008 the Waldron Health Centre won the award for Better Primary Healthcare Building.

  • Object – Source, select and commission artwork for health centre
  • Client – Waldron Health Centre – NHS
  • Sector – Healthcare
  • Location – New Cross
  • Status – Completed
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“The PCT and its partners have been hugely impressed by Art Contact's abilities to deliver art projects in the health sector and would recommend them to any public sector bodies looking for a great value and hugely knowledgeable art consultancy service.”

Ben Maguire - Lewisham Primary Care Trust

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Exemplar

Digitally enhanced photographs of Forest with colours manipulated for the client in yellow,reds and purple to mach the interior of the reception area.

Mounted onto 3mm aluminium sheet and floated in frames with 10mm shadow gap around image in the tray frame.

Object – Source, select and commission artwork for ofices
Client – Exemplar
Sector – Corporate
Location – Bracknell
Status – Completed

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Voluntary Action – Sheffield

Commissioned on behalf of Voluntary Acton Sheffield for The Circle building by Art Contact. Concentric circles of perspex held within stainless steel framework and lit by computer-controlled LED’s producing a 11-minute lighting sequence.

Voluntary Action Sheffield commissioned Light Sculpture by Raphael Daden. Overall dimensions @ 2m x 150mm

  • Object – Source, select and commission light sculpture for exterior wall.
  • Client – Voluntary Action
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Sheffield
  • Status – Completed
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Coutts Bank

Art Contact was approached to augment their art collection to provide additional artworks for the client area at main Coutts in the Strand and also for the regional branch in Southampton.

A portfolio was produced following the brief and from this the artworks were selected. Once selected the artworks were framed and installed in both locations.

  • Object – Review and refresh artworks for client area in London and Southampton.
  • Client – Coutts
  • Sector – Offices and Corporate
  • Location –  London & Southampton
  • 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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European Bioinformatics Institute Internal Artwork

Dichroic Glass installation by Chris Wood, incorporating language relevant to the work in EBI.

‘It was decide to create an artwork using Dichroic glass, as the technical nature of the material is particularly suited to the scientific context’.

Tensioned cables running floor to ceiling supporting a series of dichroic glass fins with high impact polystyrene infils as shown. The overall dimensions of the glass arrangement is 1400 x 700mm.

  • Object – Source, select and commission light sculpture for EBI
  • Client – European Bioinformatics Institute at The Wellcome Trust
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Hinxton Hall, Cambridge
  • Status – Completed
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European Bioinformatics Institute – External Sculpture

EBI commissioned a sculpture on the approach to their building at Hinxton Hall. After an extensive selection process Colin Rose won the commission to complement his sculpture ‘You’ situated nearby

6 sided ‘Starball’ by Colin Rose, in mirror polished stainless steel.

6 sided ‘Starball’ by Colin Rose, in mirror polished stainless steel. 1.5m diameter

View another sculpture by Colin Rose – ‘You’

  • Object – Source, select and commission sculpture for EBI
  • Client – EBI at The Wellcome Trust
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Hinxton Hall, Cambridge
  • 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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Bonelli Erede & Hengeler Mueller

A collection of art by artists from England, Italy and Germany was curated by Art Contact, for the German – Italian law firm’s offices in central London.

Our brief for this project was to use international artists, particularly from Germany and Italy.

 

We chose works which related loosely to law, such as books by Veronica Bailey. The international theme was brought in through works by Piere Imhof and Irma Irsara.

The contemporary artwork was selected to re-enforce both the corporate identity and to support the minimalist interior design of their new offices.

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  • Object – Source, select and supply artwork for offices
  • Client – Bonnelli Erede Pappalardo & Hengeler Mueller
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – City of London
  • Status – Completed
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“This is to thank you for the great job you performed on finding a very good solution for the artwork within our offices. We are extremely happy with the outcome and we have received many praises from our colleagues and clients about the art displayed in our meeting rooms and in our lobby. We would also like to thank you for the way you handled our request, which has always been very proactive and solution oriented. On a more personal note, working with you has been a real pleasure and good fun too, and we look forward to having further opportunities to work together”.

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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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Kaleidoscope Centre – ‘Quaggy River’

Manifestation Frieze, in 41 panels, commissioned for Ground Floor glazing at The Kaleidoscope Centre (for Families of Special Needs) Rushey Green (London).

Project commissioned on behalf of Lewisham Primary Care Trust by Art Contact.

The 2-tone design, using frosted and dusted film, is based (loosely) on the Quaggy River, a water course that runs through the Borough of Lewisham, from Bromley to the River Thames at Deptford.

Manifestation on Glazing to Courtyard Garden, each panel @ 850 x 350mm

  • Object – Source, select and commission manifestations for glass walls in public area
  • Client – Kaleidoscope Centre
  • Sector – Healthcare
  • Location – Lewisham
  • Status – Completed
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“Art Contact managed a number of individual artists to ensure the project was delivered on budget and on time in readiness for the successful opening of the building.”

Ben Maguire - Lewisham Primary Care Trust

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Galliard Homes – Show Apartment

Art Contact worked closely with the interior designer to source the right artwork to complement the building and his designs.

The resulting selection from chandeliers to framed pictures can be seen in the series of photographs below.

  • Object – Source, select and supply artworks for show apartment
  • Client – Galliard Homes designer MCW
  • Sector – Residential
  • Location – London
  • Status – Completed
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Nottingham City Hospital – Diagnostic Centre

There were some very unsightly windows looking out into a brick light well. This was very unsightly when viewed from within the unit. Our brief was to brighten this up while still allowing light to pass through. This was acieved by installing images where the glazing was within the window to create the illusion that the view outside was of trees.

 

Acrylic window installation commissioned by Nottingham City Hospital (NCH) for the Diagnostic Unit.

Digital photography by Gudawer Kalirai sandwiched between 2 sheets of 5mm clear UV-resistant acrylic, installed with angle brackets within the glazing bars of the bay. Commissioned on behalf of the NCH by Art Contact.

Overall dimensions @ 4.5m x 2m

  • Object – Source, select and commission artwork to resolve window issue in Diagnostic Unit.
  • Client – Nottingham City Hospital
  • Sector – Healthcare
  • Location – Nottingham
  • Status – Completed
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Kaleidoscope Centre – ‘Object Trouve’

Six ‘objets trouve’ mosaic plaques by Steve Wright at The Kaleidoscope Centre (for Families with Children of Special Needs) Rushey Green (London).

Project commissioned on behalf of Lewisham Primary Care Trust (PCT) by Art Contact. Each school plaque made from ‘objets trouve’ collected by the school’s pupils, using designs from each school, and set into concrete by Steve Wright.

 

The plaques were displayed within the courtyard of the Kaleidoscope Centre visible through the glass walls looking into the central courtyard.

Dimensions of plaques @ 600mm x 50mm Support plinths (by Arthur de Mowbray, using Lewisham-sourced green timber) @ 350mm x 1000mm.

  • Object – Commission artwork for the internal courtyard.
  • Client – Kaleidoscope Centre
  • Sector – Healthcare
  • Location – Lewisham
  • Status – Completed
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“Art Contact managed a number of individual artists to ensure the project was delivered on budget and on time in readiness for the successful opening of the building.”

Ben Maguire - Lewisham Primary Care Trust

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Advent Software

Advent Software invited Art Contact in to manage an art program which included commissioning fine art prints for the first floor sales office and a wall mural for the break out area; printing and framing corporate marketing material for the general offices and producing a large acrylic Advent Software brand map for the main Reception.

Art Contact worked closely with a large-format printing team to print both client supplied graphics and commissioned images for display in various ways.

On the curved wall in the breakout area a large street art painting was commissioned.

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  • Object – Commissioning Fine art prints for the sales office, as well as wall murals for the break out area.
  • Client – Advent Software
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – London
  • Status – Completed
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Nottingham City Hospital – Cardiac Centre

Textile installation commissioned by Nottingham City Hospital (NCH) for the Trent Cardiac Centre.

Three modules, each an 10mm aluminium rod frame encased in hand-knitted enamelled copper wire, with additional glass beads and baubles, hung off a suspension arm with a counter-balancing scroll; the 3-part installation hangs on 4mm stainless steel wire from a roof gantry in the building’s core light-well; commissioned on behalf of the NCH by Art Contact.

Cloud Nine in situ, showing module with counter-balancing scroll. Dimensions: modules @ 2m x 1m; overall @ 3.5m x 7.5m.

Within the Link Corridor a photographic frieze has been commissioned which has been created from a digital image printed onto acrylic and installed so that it floats off the wall.

7 Panels @: 1000 x 1000mm; 1000 x 1000mm; 500 x 1000mm; 500 x 1000mm; 250 x 1000mm; 750 x 1000mm; 1000 x 1000mm

A number of other artworks by other contemporary artworks were also commissioned for this important development.

  • Object – Source, select and commission artworks for the Trent Cardiac Centre.
  • Client – Nottingham City Hospital
  • Sector – Healthcare
  • Location – Nottingham
  • Status – Completed
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Wellcome Trust – ‘You’

The Wellcome Trust’s Sanger Institute is one of the premier centre of genomic discovery and understanding in the world. It leads ambitious collaborations across the globe to provide the foundations for further research and transformative healthcare innovation.

Our brief from the client to reflect the overall research programme at Genome Centre now referred to as The Sanger Institute in an abstract form. ‘You’ by Colin Rose was commissioned being 3 Elements read as one in Mirror polished stainless steel.

 

Mirror polished stainless steel was used to reflect the surroundings and the people passing through the main walk way throughout the day. The three elements make up the world ‘You’ as seen throughout the day in the reflection which holds the key to our DNA.  The work is subtle and yet has a significant meaning to the site.

‘You’ – Three spheres sculpture by Colin Rose for the Wellcome Trust. Size: 2m, 1.5m and 0.8m diameter

Project commissioned on behalf of the Wellcome Trust for the Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge (now referred to The Sanger Institute) by Virginia Grub (Art Contact).

  • Object – Source, select and commission an important work of sculpture by Colin Rose for the Wellcome Trust.
  • Client – Wellcome Trust
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Sanger Institute, Cambridge
  • Status – Completed
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“Virginia Grubb has been particularly helpful in assisting our selection of appropriate artists and the commissioning of their work through to instalment.”

David Scott - Project Director Wellcome Trust

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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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Albion Riverside – Show Appartment

Black & White at Albion Riverside

Abstracted images of water reflect the river location in the 7th-Floor penthouse show apartment at Battersea’s highly prestigious Albion Riverside development.

Working closely with the interior designers, Robert Branchdale (Art Contact) selected a series of artworks in black and white – original etchings for the dining area and digital photography for the main living area – to complement and enhance the stylish atmosphere of the penthouse.

  • Object – Commissioning artwork for the 7th floor penthouse show apartment
  • Client – Albion Riverside
  • Sector – Residential
  • Location – Battersea, London
  • Status – Completed
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Queen Charlotte’s Hospital

The brief was to be bright, child-oriented, durable and within a set budget. Working with Emily Allchurch of Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, Robert Branchdale of Art Contact commissioned the sculptor Chris Plowman to create four works in sheet steel, based on collage artwork carried out by young patients in the pediatric outpatients unit.

A set of steel sculptures by Chris Plowman has just been installed at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital in London. They stand on four granite plinths between the main entrance of the Maternity Unit and the main entrance of the Pediatric Outpatient Unit.

The works depict Jungle Animals, Farmyard Animals, Birds and Fish. The sculptures succeed brilliantly in providing a bright, charming and optimistic identity to an otherwise undistinguished outdoor space.

  • Object – Source,select and commission works of sculpture for Queen Charlotte’s Hospital
  • Client – Hammersmith NHS Trust
  • Sector – Healthcare
  • Location – Chelsea, London
  • Status – Completed
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Land Securities – Landflex

Use of art at Land Securities flexible office developments in Fulham and Soho has helped create the right atmosphere for some important lettings.

Landflex is an innovative solution responding to the challenge of matching office accommodation to the requirements of dynamic business plans. By offering unparalleled degrees of choice, underpinned by complete price certainty and coupled with excellent service Landflex gives customers flexibility and control over all aspects of their office accommodation.

In Soho Square Art Contact’s challenge was to deliver a big-impact art work for the main internal atrium, nine meters in width, within a limited budget. Ian Wilkinson’s 30-piece pop art installation succeeds brilliantly.

At the Landflex flagship – the Empress State Building – Art Contact has provided a (flexible) rental of abstract art by Bert Irvin and Neil Canning, giving a focus of colour and energy in key public areas.

Lettings at Empress State since the art was installed include Transport For London and the Metropolitan Police.

  • Object – Source, selection & rental of artworks
  • Client – Land Securities
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Fulham and Soho, London
  • Status – Completed
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Office of Government Commerce

A panel in 12mm stained glass by Graham Jones has been completed for OGC’s new offices.

OGC wanted a piece of modern glass for the Reception area of their new building. After a site meeting and specification briefing from the client, Graham Jones produced a total of 3 options in sketch form and a final choice of image was adapted from one of these. As part of the brief Graham was aware of the style of two large prints by Neil Canning chosen through Art Contact to hang in adjacent areas of the Reception and he incorporated approriately sympathetic colour and line into his glass designs. (The Canning prints’ Nile’ and ‘Thermal’ were the last available in now sold-out editions and have undoubtedly increased in value since installation.)

Because of computer printing technology, a small sketch can be faithfully and accurately reproduced up to the scale of the finished 12mm thick glass panel, which measures 1.2 x 2.3 m., so the client is accurately aware of how the finished piece will look. However, the artist himself works on the etched and coloured surface, thus giving the free and personal touch of the artist to the finished work. As examples; the white touches in the top left of the work were adjusted and toned down by Jones once the work had been hung, in reaction to seeing the work actually in situ. Several areas of beautiful surface texture emerged during the process of manufacture of the panel and were left incorporated in the design.

  • Object – Source, select and commission artwork for new offices
  • Client – Office of Government Commerce
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Central london
  • Status – Completed
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BT Gatwick – BCO Award Winning Scheme

BT has won the “Fit out Workplace (Major Projects)” award, both on the National and Regional levels, for its new offices at City Place, Gatwick. Works commissioned by Art Contact are an important aspect of the interior, and we are delighted to have contributed to BT’s success.

Two major installations by David MacIlwaine were installed together with a panel work by Ian Wilkinson.

‘Water Curtain’ is a suspended mobile sculpture above the reception/street area running parallel with the front glass wall of the building. Shapes of light gathering and mirror acrylic are suspended at different heights by a number of cables. ‘Fire Piece’ consists of a rectangular white aluminium frame 3m x 5.5m, strung with translucent nylon mesh as a support structure for 6mm diameter light gathering acrylic rods in red, orange and blue. In addition, a series of abstract perspex installations by Ian Wilkinson were commissioned by Art Contact for the main reception area.

  • Object – Source, select and supply sculpture for Atrium and other artworks
  • Client – BT
  • Sector – Commercial
  • Location – City Place, Gatwick
  • Status – Completed
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"Art Contact's strength is in their ability to fully understand the brief, to make the best use of available budget and put forward the most relevant and exciting work from emerging artists."

Malcolm Brown, Brand and Identity Manager, BT Group Communications

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British Telecom – Leavesden

“Flight” by Diana Edmunds is a suspended multi-element mobile sculpture, now installed in three locations in the new Leavesden offices: the main entrance atrium, and additionally in 2 locations in the Concourse area.
The work is made of light edge acrylic, with stainless steel weights and cables. There are 150 elements, 4-5 per cable, each to dimensions 70cm – 120 cm.

The scope of the work emerged as a result of detailed collaboration between the Diana Edmunds, Rachael Brown of Building Design Partnership, and Virginia Grub of Art Contact.
Rachael Brown comments; “The sculpture is a very successful interpretation of our requirements for Leavesden and has made a significant contribution to the atmosphere of the Street.”

  • Object – Source, select and commission sculpture for Atrium
  • Client – British Telecom
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Leavesden
  • Status – Completed
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"The sculpture is a very successful interpretation of our requirements for Leavesden and has made a significant contribution to the atmosphere of the Street."

Rachael Brown of Building Design Partnership

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British Telecom – Oswestry

Glass and Bronze at BT Oswestry

Glass panels by Graham Jones, an external bronze abstract by Dennis Westwood and paintings by Charlotte Cornish at BT’s latest Workstyle offices.

Graham Jones’ impressive piece for the reception area consists three panels of 12mm toughened glass, each measuring 1.43m x 2.7m, etched on one side and colour enamelled on the other.

The second consists of two screens, slumped glass in front and 12mm toughened pre-sandblasted glass, acid-etched, behind. It both affords light and provides privacy to the internal theatre area.

Dennis Westwood’s external bronze provides a powerful contrast. Entitled ‘Infineum II’ it is cast in silicon bronze and stands 1.4 metres high on a granite base. It is sited to be viewed both from the external approach and from within the atrium.

  • Object – Source select and supply commissioned glass screen and other artworks for offices
  • Client – British Telecom
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Oswestry
  • Status – Completed
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"Art Contact's strength is in their ability to fully understand the brief, to make the best use of available budget and put forward the most relevant and exciting work from emerging artists."

Malcolm Brown, Brand and Identity Manager, BT Group Communications

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