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New Consultancy digital content

Consultancy is delighted to be hosting two webinars in April, as well as a growing library of podcasts. Read more
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Behind the Scenes at 22 Bishopsgate

Take a first look at a film celebrating two signature commissions for 22 Bishopsgate managed by CAS Consultancy. Read more
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Fabienne Nicholas steps down after 14 years leading the Consultancy team

With Fabienne exploring new directions, Deputy Head of Consultancy Colin Ledwith will be taking on the leadership of the Consultancy team. Read more
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Larry Achiampong named as Artist in Residence

CAS Consultancy were jointly appointed by City of London and Hawkins\Brown to collaborate with the design team reimagining the public spaces around the historic Smithfield area Read more
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Behind the Scenes at 22 Bishopsgate

The CAS Team have been installing two major commissions by Karine Laval and Ryan Mosley at the the City of London's tallest tower. Read more
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CAS Consultancy delivering Public Art Framework for Wakefield

The Framework will provide a road map for the delivery of best practice art commissioning in the UK’s home of sculpture. Read more
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CAS Consultancy delivers for Private Equity client

CAS Consultancy has developed the company’s contemporary art collection since 2013 and has been working with contemporary artists to create a series of bold, site specific responses to the office, its people and the ethos of the business. Read more
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Consultancy appoints Sinta Tantra to deliver commission for 22 Bishopsgate

*Consultancy is delighted to announce the appointment of Sinta Tantra, who has been commissioned to develop a series of works for the City of London’s newest office tower, 22 Bishopsgate.

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Seven storey mural by Tod Hanson delivered for the LSE

Sited at the heart of the LSE campus, Spectra reflects the School’s position as a globally respected academic institution and a fixture of London’s architectural landscape. Read more
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Public Art Forum: Public Space and Culture After the Virus

A panel of distinguished speakers considered the future of the urban realm and the role of culture in supporting new behaviours and ways of considering social space. Read more
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The Artist’s Conversation: Catherine Yass with George Vasey

Catherine talks about her work from early pieces in hospitals to her 2019 commission for the Supreme Court celebrating 100 years of women in the law. Read more
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Responding to a changing world

At CAS Consultancy, our work in the public realm has placed social value at the forefront of everything we do – developing opportunities for artists to contribute not only to developing great art but equally importantly to building communities. Read more

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Reflections on our changing times

We are thinking about civic space when there is no public, how to connect communities and build audiences in virtual space instead. Read more
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CAS Consultancy commissions Vienna-based artist Angelika Loderer

CAS *consultancy works with Angelika Loderer to create a site-specific sculpture for a London-based corporate client Read more
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Major new artwork by Catherine Yass

Legacy, 2019 forms the centrepiece of courtroom 2 and features portraits of three female legal pioneers, including the first woman President of the Supreme Court Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE. Read more
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Claire Hooper awarded Private Equity Building Commission

This commission represents a departure for both artist and commissioner: Claire has never worked directly on rendered walls, while this is the first time the firm has commissioned site-specific work. Read more
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CAS Consultancy in Urban Land Institute’s ‘Including Culture in Development’ guide

Consultancy is proud to announce its involvement in the Urban Land Institute’s Including Culture in Development guide. Head of CAS Consultancy, Fabienne Nicholas, has been instrumental in this work with her contribution of a set of best practice case Read more

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Artist Vivien Zhang to deliver a signature artwork for Quintain’s Wembley Park development

Zhang is a Forbes 30 Under 30 list maker and a former award-holder at the British School at Rome Read more
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CAS Consultancy appointed to deliver the Royal Docks Cultural Placemaking Strategy

Working in collaboration with design and planning consultants Fluid, our work will develop a creative, sustainable and inclusive strategy for this historically rich and culturally significant part of London. Read more
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Artist collective Troika launch research initiative

Troika are the first artists to be commissioned to develop work as part of the West Cambridge public art strategy, which was developed by CAS Consultancy in 2017. Read more
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CAS Consultancy acquires new work for Inflexion’s Marylebone offices

New acquisitions include works by Caroline Achaintre, Marie Lund, Victoria Morton, Ruairiadh O’Connell, Tyra Tingleff and Jorinde Voigt, continuing the collection’s focus on abstraction and elegance of materials. Read more
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Aspen Digital Art Award recipient Xavier Solé Mora launches winning artwork for the Aspen Collection

Inspired by our perception of risk and an etching by Francisco Goya, 'Fools' Feast' presents a gentle choreography of floating hippos that disguises the danger they pose in the wild. Read more
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*consultancy starts academic year with exciting public art strategy

The Royal College of Music is seeking a major public-facing work for the entrance to its new museum and recital space. Read more
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CAS Consultancy completes two permanent public artworks in North West Cambridge

Artist duo Winter & Hörbelt have created a pavilion in the landscape and a Pixel Wall that distorts our images of the surroundings. Read more
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The Making of Dame Millicent Fawcett

CAS Patrons visited AB Foundry in East London to learn more about Gillian Wearing's commemoration to women's suffrage in parliament square, a commission managed by the Contemporary Art Society Consultancy. Read more
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New public artwork to be commissioned for Angel Central

The Contemporary Art Society has compiled a handpicked list of critically acclaimed UK artists that work in a range of mediums Read more
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Radical Cambridge Choirs join together in a performance by artist Melanie Manchot

During her residency Manchot worked with university researchers to explore what it means to be part of a new community in Cambridge. Read more
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Open Eddington: Public Art for North West Cambridge

Last month the North West Cambridge Development opened its doors to the public, with a programme of events celebrating the near-completion of Phase One of the project. Over the course of one day, 4,000+ visitors descended on the new Read more

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The Art World View – ABCs of Cultural Placemaking:

Cultural placemaking has moved beyond a ‘nice to have’ and into pole position for ensuring economically viable, healthy, sustainable communities. Read more
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Alison Wilding RA and Adam Kershaw selected to create a memorial to British victims of terrorism overseas

Managed by the CAS Consultancy for the DCMS, the memorial is composed of three elements: water, land and air, come together in the work which is titled ‘Still Water’. Read more
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Fabienne Nicholas invited by Sadiq Khan to become a Mayor’s Design Advocate

CAS Consultancy’s developing strand of cultural strategy work, as well as extensive expertise in the public realm, gives Fabienne a unique blend of experience to contribute to the Mayor’s vision. Read more
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Aspen Online Art Award relaunched for 2017 as the Aspen Digital Art Award

The value of the award has doubled from £5,000 to £10,000 allows a greater range of work to be commissioned. Read more
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Growing the Aspen Collection in New York

The Consultancy team have acquired over 20 new works by New York Artists for Aspen Insurance, working with their architects to showcase the expanded collection in a new space. Read more
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New work commissioned for Angel Court, City of London

We are near to unveiling our new commissions for Angel Court, a new office development designed by Fletcher Priest Architects in the City of London for Stanhope Plc and Mitsui Fudosan. Featuring some of the most exciting artists working Read more

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The Art World View: Art collecting is not just for individuals

It can set a company apart, create office harmony, and build brand identity Read more
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Aspen Art Day – A Private View

Students from Bishop Challoner secondary school paintings were produced in response to Aspen’s art collection, which is managed by CAS Art Consultancy Read more
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Jesse Wine commission for The Crown Estate’s Princes House

Sketched in intense blue pigment on white glazed ceramic tiles, the artwork captures architectural fragments of the historical facade of Princes House. Read more
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Expanding Aspen’s international art collection

CAS Consultancy have selected over 20 new artworks for Aspen’s offices in Singapore and three offices in the USA: Hunt Valley, Rocky Hill and Houston. Read more
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The Art World View: The Beauty of Data

The way in which artists are embracing data helps us understand the fundamentals of our world just that little bit differently. Read more
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Melanie Manchot named as the new Artist-in-Residence on the North West Cambridge Development

Manchot will work with the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at the university to explore the future of personhood, friendship, shelter and community Read more
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Imagine a Memorial for the 21st century

Join us to take part in activities exploring ideas of conflict, resilience, friendship and support, while contributing to discussions about the purpose of a contemporary space for memorial in Walworth, South London. Read more
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The Art World View: Women in Art are in Business

Diversity, or the lack of, is a hot topic across business and the arts. But in the art world there is slow but steady change occurring. Read more
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Virtual World created from our digital fingerprints commissioned for the £5,000 Aspen Online Art Award 2016

Users’ metadata are used to create particular landforms with their own plants and weather systems in an interactive online artwork, with its implications for anonymity rights and freedom of expression. Read more
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Yelena Popova wins NWCD Health Centre commission

Popova's practice encompasses painting, video and installation, and all her work is tied together by an interest in exploring the concept of balance, whether in politics, representation, or in our relationship with machines. Read more
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Aspen Art Collection opens up

CAS Consultancy hosted the annual Place to Be and Aspen Art Day, which engages school children with the art collection held at their Fenchurch Street offices. Read more
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First permanent artwork for the North West Cambridge Development installed

Ruth Proctor’s We Are All Under the Same Sky, installed at North West Cambridge Primary School, references no matter where on earth we are we have one thing in common. Read more
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2016 Aspen Online Art Award Shortlist Announced

The shortlist includes investigations into the boundaries between physical and virtual space, traditional animation techniques and the application of motion graphics in projection mapping and holographic installations. Read more
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CAS commissioned artists nominated for major 2015 international awards

Three North West Cambridge Development residency artists have been shortlisted for major international awards this year for their work produced at the site. The Habitation Artist Residency Programme is managed by the Contemporary Art Society with InSite Arts.

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New Publication Features the Contemporary Art Society’s Consultancy Work with Aspen

Global Corporate Collections, a new 700 page publication by Deutsche Standard EDITIONEN, sheds light, for the first time, onto 80 corporate art collections considered to be among the best in the world. Presented in print Read more

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Anonymous Dancers take over the Internet for Aspen Online Art Award 2015

The performers’ movements will represent the actions we repeatedly use when we go to visit both online and physical sites Read more
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Anonymous Dancers to take over the Internet for the £5,000 Aspen Online Art Award 2015

The performers’ movements will represent the actions we repeatedly use when we go to visit both online and physical sites Read more
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Consultancy News: June 2014

Expanding on our work with Aspen curating their global art collection we recently set up the Aspen Online Art Award. Working in partnership with universities across Britain a shortlist of eight artists was identified by a selection panel. The winner, Yi-Chun Lin from London College of Communication will receive a commission prize of £4,000 to produce a new work for Aspen’s extensive contemporary art collection – and its first online artwork. Read more
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Artist Yi-Chun Lin Announced as Recipient of Aspen Online Art Award

Yi-Chun Lin has been announced today as the recipient of the Aspen Online Art Award 2014. Launched by Aspen in association with the Contemporary Art Society, this unique award is the first student award for commissioning online art in the UK. Read more
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Aspen Online Art Award

Contemporary Art Society’s Consultancy is working with Aspen to deliver the UK’s first student award for online art. Working in partnership with universities across Britain, Aspen’s Online Art Award is one to watch. Read more
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North West Cambridge Art Programme Event: Deep time, earth to solar system: artists in discussion

As part of the Festival of Ideas the first Artists in Residence for the University's North West Cambridge development: Karen Guthrie, Nina Pope, Tania Kovats and Hannah Rickards discuss and exchange ideas that have emerged from their research within the departments of Archaeology, Astronomy and Earth Sciences. Read more
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