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Key Experience

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Architect: 1986-2012

Chartered Architect with 26 years post-qualification experience including a diverseportfolio of designing and project managing major capital projects and public art andarchitecture collaborations both cultural and commercial.

www.atoll-uk.com

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Officer involved throughout NW. Helped support key strategic projects, Local AuthorityArts Officers and regional GftA bids for public realm. Created public art guidebook andpublic art northwest website and public art funding guidelines with ACE NW for NWDAin 2002.

www.publicartnorthwest.org.uk

ACE NW: 2000-04

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In 2006 wrote the 4.5 million funding plan and commissioning strategy for the

Northern Ways Icons of the North public art strategy for Beam and Arts Council

England.

www.thenorthernway.co.uk

Beam: 2005-2012

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Key Experience: Deputy Editor ofArt & Architecture Journal since 2004. Regular articles

written (forA&AJ as well as other publications), as well as strategic development work

undertaken to develop A&AJ National Conferences.

www.artandarchitecturejournal.com

A&AJ: 2005-2012

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Co-Author in last 6 years of combined urban design and public realm frameworks (with

Gillespies LLP) for Carlisle, Lancaster and Bradford City Councils; (with Beam) for

Halton, Derby, Craven and Markham Vale Councils; and sole author of independent

public art strategies for Sunderland, Wearmouth-Jarrow, Lancashire, Cheshire East and

Chester & Cheshire West , Preston, St. Helens and Burnley Councils and Isle of Man

Government.

www.atoll-uk.com

Atoll: 2005-12

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RecentAtoll Projects

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Developed 2007 Public Art at the Waterfront Strategy for Widnes Waterfront EDZ and

Halton Borough Council, resulting in the commissioning of Tonkin Lius 150k Future

Flower with wind-generated and interactive LED lighting in 2010.

www.widneswaterfront.co.uk

Ian Banks

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Created Cyclorama orbit of city community gateways, with project / site feasibilities

and precedent studies as part of the 2008 public art strategy and gateway strategy for

Preston City Council.

www.atoll-uk.com

Ian Banks

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Completed Cultural Strategy with Taylor Young in 2008 for Weaver Valley Regional Park.

Strategy included project identification, feasibility and economic appraisal.

www.weavervalley.org.uk

Ian Banks

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Developed in 2009 the Universala public art interpretation strategy for Wearmouth-

Jarrow UNESCO bid to celebrate St Bede and develop connected dual media and light

installations between St Peters church, Wearmouth and St Pauls church in Jarrow.

Solicited Lead Artists are Nayan Kulkarni, Jason Bruges, Amenity Space and Jo Fairfax.

www.wearmouth-jarrow.org.uk

Ian Banks

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Ian Banks

CreativityWorks award-winning Hiddenplace mini-festival co-curated with artist Noah Rose

in 2009. Works of 7 young local artist included performance, film & mobile cinema and a

graphic novel amongst others. Project involved mentoring artists.

www.hiddenplace.org.uk

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Commissioned by Atoll, and filmed over 1 year, artist Patricia MacKinnon-Day created

Private Views Made Public, a time-lapse film that shared a unique viewpoint and moments

of contemplation as they looked out across six spectacular landscapes along mid-

Cheshires Sandstone Ridge. The artist worked with six local people who owned

spectacular private panoramic views of the six historical hillforts.

www.mackinnon-day.com

Ian Banks

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Design Team collaboration 2008-2010 with LandscapeArchitects Gillespies, and Engineers

Arup on public art strategy for 24m Bradford Mirror Pool. Commissions for Janek

Schaefer (sound installation), Wolfgang Buttress (sculptural light columns) and Haque

Design + Research (interactive light projection & new media).

www.gillespies.co.uk

Ian Banks

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Commissioned integrated street art completed in Sunderland with commissioned Berlin

artists KAPOK developing through R&D, a prototype for urban accupuncture and pressure

points via new lighting, sunlight reflectors and sound friggers with Lightfolio,Aurora

lighting contractors and US sound artist Bill Fontana. Other commissions included SDNA TV

video projections and Charlie Davidson street furniture.

www.sunnisidepartnerhip.co.uk

Ian Banks

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Acting as current Arts Strategist and Curator for the Shine Local Education Partnertship

for Blackburn with Darwen delivering 4 Lead Artist % ForArt programmes worth circa

1m over 8 new or refurbished BSF Schools all currently on site and valued at 100m.

http://shine-lep.blogspot.com

Ian Banks

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Recent Clive Gillman Projects

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Clive Gillman

Metroscopes uses the internet as a barometer for representing current thinking about a

particular place. By sampling live information from across the globe the piece

represents this thinking through a constantly changing active lighting display in

Ropewalks Square, Liverpool.

www.mg.u-net.com/metroscopes.htm

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Clive Gillman

Drake Street Observatory aimed to look at the detail of Drake Street in Rochdale, to

record the signs and structures of a topography at the end of one stage of its life. To

do this not with false nostalgia but to map the street and its life and to represent this

back to its inhabitants.

www.mg.u-net.com/drakestreet/home.html

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Clive Gillman

FACT Lead Artist working with the architect, Austin-Smith:Lord, to develop a number of

features for the building. The subsequent approach was based on the theme of the self-

reflexive building a building providing features that reflect its life and functions back to

its inhabitants

www.mg.u-net.com/fc.htm

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Clive Gillman

In Route One for Huddersfield the purpose was to support the visitor in locating and

enjoying the gallery. But to do so by using route-marking signage to create statements

about the architecture, purpose and design of the gallery

www.mg.u-net.com/routeone.htm

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Recent Lightfolio Projects

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Reg Gove

Clydebank Railway Bridge

www.lightfolio.co.uk

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Reg Gove

The Big Heids

www.lightfolio.co.uk

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Reg Gove

Abbortsford Steeple

www.lightfolio.co.uk

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Reg Gove

Argyle Road Underpass

www.lightfolio.co.uk

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ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY, GARTHDEE

PUBLIC ART & THE RIVERSIDE CAMPUS

PUBLIC ART STRATEGY

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

Ian Banks

Director of Atoll

Monday 5th March 2012