THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA

BOROUGH MILLENNIUM COMMITTEE - 6 MARCH 2000

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND LEISURE COMMITTEE - 9 MARCH 2000

REPORT BY THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES

MILLENNIUM BRONZE EXHIBITION: HOLLAND PARK

This report updates the Millennium Committee and the Environmental Health and Leisure Committee on the current status of the Bronze Exhibition.

FOR INFORMATION

1. OPENING

1.1 The exhibition will be officially launched on Monday 3 April. There will be a reception from 12.00-1.30 in a marquee on the Orangery Lawn. The marquee will have its open side looking out onto the Pye Fountain.

1.2 The opening ceremony will be performed by Professor Phillip King, C.B.E., President of the Royal Academy.

1.3 The Committee may like to note that one exhibit by Randall-Page will not be in situ by the launch of the exhibition due to a delay at his foundry. This work is due to arrive later in April.

2. SCULPTORS AND EXHIBITS

2.1 The final number of works in the exhibition has been closed at thirty. A and descriptions of their exhibits is attached in Appendix G. The Committee has before them a map showing the position of works around the park.

2.2 Sculpture at Goodwood as partners in the exhibition have provided twelve of the works. Other works have been enabled by foundries, agents and by loans from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Fabrication of one work, “Tortoises with Triangle and Time” by Wendy Taylor has been made with the help of the Royal Borough and Sculpture at Goodwood. If this work is sold the Royal Borough would receive back its initial investment for fabrication and have a percentage interest in profit from the selling price.

2.3 An agreement which can be used for other works if they are sold has been drawn up by the Curator. In general, the Royal Borough would receive a percentage of the sale price of any work after the fabrication price has been deducted.

3. TRANSPORT AND INSTALLATION

3.1 Transport

Works are being transported by Mtec Limited, a leading specialist sculpture transporter. To date there have been no major problems with the transportation of works.

The majority of works have now been delivered.

3.2 Installation

Installation is being managed by the Parks Service. The installation schedule was staggered between mid-February and March to allow for the preparation of each site. This work involved ground preparation, the fabrication of bases and stands and the supply of electricity and water where required. The site work is being undertaken by contractors under supervision of the Parks Service.

At the end of the exhibition all bases will be removed and the grounds returned to their original state.

Information plaques are being produced to place next to each work.

4. INSURANCE

4.1 Insurance has been arranged through the Borough’s Insurance Section.

5. EXHIBITION OFFICE

5.1 In a collaborative project between the Royal Borough and the School of Architecture and Design at the , M.A. architecture students were asked to provide a design for an exhibition office.

5.2 The students were given a brief outlining the uses to which the structure would be put, maximum dimensions, and cost. A specific site was identified in the park. The site is indicated to Committee on the map.

5.3 A model and plans of the most practical proposal is displayed here for Committee. This met the criteria set for the project and has the practical benefit of being fabricated before being delivered and then lowered into place, without entailing a great deal of on-site work.

5.4 The office will have an electricity supply and telephone lines. A screen will be in place which will display information about the exhibition and give internet access to a website about the exhibition and a link to the Sculpture at Goodwood website.

5.5 The structure has been designed to enable it to be easily removed and utilised by the Royal Borough in another capacity following the exhibition.

6. CATALOGUE AND PUBLICITY MATERIAL

2 6.1 The material produced for publicity and promotion of the exhibition has been designed by the company used by Sculpture at Goodwood. These designers are specialists in producing material involving large works of sculpture.

6.2 In summary the catalogue will consist of:

Foreword by the Chairman of the Millennium Committee Introduction: Wilfred and Jeannette Cass Article on Sculpture by Professor Norbert Lynton Sculpture and Culture in Holland Park by Louise Vaughan Article on bronze casting and techniques by Ann Elliott Text on sculptors and works in the exhibition Article on Sculpture at Goodwood by Ann Elliott The Friends of Holland Park Acknowledgements Size: 237 x 170 mm Cover: Softback, folded inwards, 100mm flaps perfect binding Pages: 176 150gsm Colour illustrations: 45 Black and White Illustrations: 40 maximum

Each work will be photographed in situ in the Park as this catalogue will become a work of record in perpetuity for the exhibition.

6.3 An initial print run of 5000 has been set. The catalogue will be sold for £10. As all works will not be in situ to be photographed by launch day, the catalogue will not be available until later in April.

6.4 A copy of the poster, leaflet and map will be laid round for the Committee to view.

7. ASSOCIATED EVENTS

7.1 A programme of continuous promotion will be required for this project as it will be in situ for a year.

7.2 An educational project involving Borough schools is being prepared and there will be a year round series of guided tours of the works.

7.3 Merchandise associated with the exhibition and with the Borough Millennium Celebrations will be on sale from the office.

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7.4 A press release, Appendix H, has been prepared and is with the Press Office.

FOR INFORMATION

ROGER WOOD Executive Director, Education and Libraries

Background papers None.

BMC.0003.JMcE.

4 APPENDIX 1 “BRONZE” - LIST OF WORKS

Work Sculptor Medium Enabled by/on loan from Bronze head of the Stairs 2000 Ivor Abrahams bronze The artist Cochlea 1999/00 Edward Allington, bronze Sculpture @ Goodwood Both Arms 2000 Kenneth Armitage bronze The artist Horse Power 1999 Zadok Ben David, bronze & painted Sculpture @ Goodwood steel Back to the Beginning 2000 Jon Buck bronze Pangolin Editions Annunciation 1999/00 Andrew Burton bronze & granite Sculpture @ Goodwood Stairs 1991 Lynn Chadwick bronze The artist Head 1997 John Davies bronze Sculpture @ Goodwood John Bull 1999 bronze, painted and Sculpture @ Goodwood boulder The Two of us 1997-98 Steven Gregory bronze Sculpture @ Goodwood Caesura VI 2000 Charles Hadcock bronze Nautilus “The Now” 2000 Nigel Hall bronze (2 sections) Sculpture @ Goodwood Walking Man 1998 Sean Henry bronze, oil paint, steel The artist Mr. Fox and Mr. Crow 1995-99 Nicola Hicks bronze The artist, courtesy Flowers East Sun’s Roots 2000 Phillip King bronze Sculpture @ Goodwood Cyclops 2000 Bryan Kneale bronze coated steel The artist The Sense of Sight 1999 Christopher Le Brun bronze The artist, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd. Journey II 19XX Charlotte Mayer bronze Pangolin Editions Spatial Diagram 1993-94 Dhruva Mistry bronze The artist, courtesy the Yorkshire Sculpture Park Pyramid, Sphere and Cube 2000 David Nash bronze The artist, courtesy Pangolin Editions Space Emptied Out 1994 Eilis O’Connell stainless steel, corten Sculpture @ Goodwood steel and bronze Master of the Universe Eduardo Paolozzi bronze National Galleries of Scotland Kanagawa 2000 William Pye bronze Nautilus xxxxxxx 2000 Randall-Page bronze The artist, courtesy Pangolin Editions The Queen of the Night 1997-99 Michael Sandle bronze Sculpture @ Goodwood Stefano 1997 Keir Smith bronze Sculpture @ Goodwood Tortoises with Triangle and Wendy Taylor bronze Tortoises enabled by Sculpture Time 2000 @ Goodwood Frenhofer 1997 William Tucker bronze Sculpture @ Goodwood 2 Girls from 1908 (after Glynn Williams bronze The artist, courtesy Bernard Picasso) 19XX Jacobson Gallery 5 Natural History 2000 bronze A. B. Fine Art Foundry Ltd.

6 PRESS RELEASE

Bronze: Millennium Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture in Holland Park, April 2000 - 31 March 2001

The exhibition has been organised by the Council’s Millennium Committee, chaired by Councillor Bryan P. Levitt, as part of the Borough’s millennium celebrations. It will consist of 30 bronze works by leading sculptors, some of them specially commissioned. Ann Elliott, an associate curator of Sculpture at Goodwood, is the curator of the exhibition. The exhibition is funded by the Council, with generous support from Sculpture at Goodwood and a number of foundries. It will be a significant contribution to the presentation of contemporary sculpture with works from new and established sculptors.

Previous major sculpture exhibitions in Holland Park in the 1950s and 1960s were confined to a small area. However, these Millennium works of contemporary sculpture are distributed over the whole of the park so each can be enjoyed against an appropriate naturalistic setting.

The artists whose work will be shown are: Ivor Abrahams, Edward Allington, Kenneth Armitage, Zadok Ben-David, Jon Buck, Andrew Burton, Lynn Chadwick, John Davies, Laura Ford, Steven Gregory, Charles Hadcock, Nigel Hall, Sean Henry, Nicola Hicks, Phillip King, Bryan Kneale, Christopher Le Brun, Charlotte Mayer, Dhruva Mistry, David Nash, Eilis O’Connell, William Pye, Peter Randall-Page, Michael Sandle, Keir Smith, Wendy Taylor, William Tucker, Glynn Williams, Bill Woodrow.

The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art has also generously agreed to loan Eduardo Paolozzi’s Master of the Universe for the exhibition .

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