We’re a small, friendly and dynamic team with highly specialised knowledge and decades of experience ranging from the commercial gallery sector to large-scale infrastructure projects.
We’re approachable, resourceful, imaginative, detail focussed and collaborative. We understand the immediate and long-term value of culture in shaping and animating equitable urban spaces and within design teams and across project specialisms to curate and produce art commissions and creative programmes of the highest quality. We undertake rigorous research and work with community to provide context specific public art and cultural strategies with a focus on the creative economy and innovative, inclusive and sustainable growth. Our diverse range of clients and collaborators include local authorities, major landowners, developers, business improvement districts, universities and healthcare providers, architects and community, cultural and third sector organisations. We recognise that no two projects are ever the same and work with our clients to deliver projects and programmes that are as unique as their commissioners.
Art Producer andCommunications Lead
Art Producer andStrategies Lead
Head of Consultancy
Art Producer and Collections Lead
Colin has considerable depth and breadth of experience in the development of nuanced, collaborative cultural placemaking built around creative partnership and extensive experience in initiating and delivering complex, high-profile public art commissions.
Urban Regeneration Mixed-use development Healthcare Education
Over a 25-year career in the cultural sector, he has developed and delivered cultural placemaking and public art strategies, delivery frameworks and partnerships, visual art exhibitions and major art commissions for transport infrastructure, urban regeneration areas, housing and mixed-use developments, hospitals and schools across London and the UK. Selected projects include: Wakefield District Public Art Framework and establishing the Public Art Steering Group; The Royal Docks Cultural Placemaking Strategy; Smithfield Public Realm Design Development with Hawkins/Brown for the City of London Corporation; The City of London Arts Initiative; The Crossrail Art Programme Cultural Strategy and subsequent delivery management of ten simultaneous Crossrail art commissions; Melbourne Metro Tunnel Cultural Strategy; Greenwich Peninsula Public Art Strategy, Heathrow Terminal 2 Central Court Commission concept development and Cambridge Biomedical Campus Cultural Placemaking Strategy.
Contact our Head of Consultancy
colin@contemporaryartsociety.org
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