Archived entries for Public Art

Salisbury Arts Centre

I have been asked to respond to the exhibition ‘The View from Here’ at Salisbury Arts Centre This is what they say about my work.

Aidan Moesby works mostly with text. Its physical manifestation is as important as the words themselves, made into objects or created fleetingly for site-specific installations; isolated words and short phrases draw you up short, engage you in a dialogue, interrogate their context and throw you back on your own resources. Here he will be making a new work as a commissioned response to the other artists’ work and the setting of Salisbury Arts Centre, scattered words moving the viewer through the space physically, visually and psychologically, and in some indirect way substituting (perhaps usurping) the absent aural and written content of delGado and Bruch’s conceptual postcards

Newcastle Bridges Festival

The Bridges Festival was a major event in Newcastle over the weekend of 13th and 14th of August 2011. For my part I was working with Julia Barton who designed the Lost and Found garden on the Swing Bridge. I did all the participatory work – involving 4 community groups from Newcastle and 4 from Gateshead. We worked together to design potager beds – small scale kitchen gardens set around formalised patterns – ‘potage’ meaning for the pot from the french. Normally doing planting projects you have months to design, sow, bring on the plants so they are ready and prime for the event. We had 6 weeks. Amazingly it all came off. The 2 days of install were well worth it. The feedback from the public was a resounding ‘It should be like this all the time’ or comments along that theme. Needless to say the delicate construction and planting was more laboured than the tractor dominated dismantle – All trace of it was gone in a few hours – Lost and found and lost again. A wee bit of Brigadoon – but hey, let’s hope it’s next year and not next century when we do it again. Some shots of it are below. If you want more of an explanation go to Julia Bartons Blog

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