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Address
Field House, Yorkley Wood, Nr
Lydney, Gloucestershire
GL15 4TU, U.K
E-mail
andrewdarke@phonecoop.coop
Websites
www.viewsvistasandreverie.org
www.atlasplace.clara.net
www.clearhorizons.fsnet.co.uk
Sculpture
Other Artists
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Consultancy
/ Design Collaboration
2005-6 Initiates “Views, Vistas and Reverie - Period 2” collaboration with
the Forestry Commission.
This will establish a best practice project on FC land for the design and
siting of mobile telecoms infrastructure in landscape .
2004-5 Telecoms Infrastructure Study commissioned by the Countryside
Agency.
www.viewsvistasandreverie.org
2004 Set up and co-leads Telecoms Mast Working Group with the Forest of
Dean District Council – to reduce impacts of siting of masts on both
environment and communities.
2000-3 Appointed as Lead Artist for Goresbrook Park renewal scheme,
Barking, East London. £1m.
2003 Phase II Goresbrook Park out to tender
2002 Phase I work on Goresbrook Park completed. 200K.
2000-1 Goresbrook Park Masterplan.
1999-2000 Appointed as Design Team Artist to assist with new factory
development for Dezac Group in Cinderford, Gloucestershire £2.5m
1999 Designed new colour scheme for repainting a cable bridge over
Coventry Canal for East Midlands Electricity.
Other Projects
2006 Ongoing - large scale cleaved wood sculpture and wind
kinetic sculpture.
1999 “Cleaving Air” - Trio of cleaved oak and sweet chestnut wind mobiles.
Commissioned by Richard and Monique Paice.
Other Work
Founding member of 'Art & Place'
artists group which began after the ‘Landscape and Sculpture Symposium' in
Manchester in 1989. A central purpose of the group was the detailed
examination of the many problems and issues which face artists who work in
public spaces.
A new group PLACE has now evolved which is generating ideas and
proposals ranging across the areas of art and the environment. See PLACE
résumé.
Trustee of the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, Gloucestershire 1987-99
Exhibitions include:
Group shows
2006 Taurus Crafts, Gloucestershire “Building
Bridges – Burning Bridges”
2004 Bourton House, Gloucestershire “Curiouser and Curiouser”
2003 Hampton Court, Leominster “Open to the Elements”
2003 Millers Farm, Blakeney, Gloucestershire “Second Nature”
2001 Malmo Connection, “River, Estuary, Ocean” at Galleri 21, Malmo, Sweden
2000 Sofiero Royal Castle, Helsingborg, Sweden
1999 Re.production, Stroud Valleys Artspace
Public Collections
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Kirklees Metropolitan Council
Huddersfield Art Gallery
The Forestry Commission
Hackney Health Authority, London
Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Islington Health Authority, London
Gloucestershire County Council
National Garden Festival, Ebbw Vale, Wales
Residencies
2000 - Sofiero Royal Castle,
Helsingborg, Sweden
Publications
September 2005
“Views, Vistas and Reverie – A Photographic Survey of the Intrusion of
Telecommunications Infrastructure in the Landscape of the Forest of Dean” by
Andrew Darke is published.
February 2004 “A13
Artscape” – London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
December 2002
“The Scope for
Undergrounding Overhead Electricity Lines” - A Report by the UK Centre for
Economic and Environmental Development for Friends of the Lake District by
Richard Cowell. PLACE is acknowledged for its help.
June 2001 “Landscape Research” Vol 26, No.1 publishes
polemic by Tim Hall and Iain Robertson - “Public Art and Urban
Regeneration: advocacy, claims and critical debates” - includes a number of
references to “ECOS” article. (see below)
February 2001 “Aspire to Clear Horizons” and “Clear
Horizons” documents become available on the Technical Indexes Ltd. Planning
CD-Rom
May 2000 “5½
miles of art” Coventry Canal Public Art Trail.
August 2000
“alias”
artist led initiative advisory service publication documenting a pilot
project includes information on PLACE’s contact with the service. Book
commissioned by South West Arts, produced by Stroud Valleys Artspace
Other Achievements
Active member of Forest Artists
Network in the Forest of Dean
Participated in the 'Visions for Cities Initiative' in Birmingham in 1993.
Proposals were generated for 'unloved spaces' by teams consisting of
architects, planners, artists and architecture students.
Founder member of the Kirklees Art Space Society which resulted in the
opening in 1984 of Eastthorpe Gallery and studios Mirfield, W. Yorks.
Now, here is a resume of PLACE
A number of artists came together as a result
of attending the international "Landscape & Sculpture" symposium, Manchester
Polytechnic, 1-3 September 1989. Six artists including Sue Hilder, Ute
Kreyman, Anneke Pettican and John Sexton formed the group Art & Place
shortly afterwards. PLACE evolved from this group in 1994. Anneke Pettican
worked with PLACE until 2001. Dr. Richard Cowell - Research Fellow at the
Department of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University and Pam Day
have collaborated closely with PLACE since 1997.
* The group is a forum for debate and exchange on a variety of
issues surrounding art, public art, aesthetics, society, infrastructure,
architecture and the environment.
* The group works on ideas, papers for publication, exhibitions, open
meetings and initiatives in these fields.
* New responses and approaches are sought.
* Work is presented by the
group, and others, for discussion and constructive criticism.
* Visits are made to sites of interest.
Note: all members have not necessarily been involved in all PLACE projects.
PLACE is an unincorporated association.
Here is the
2006 realisations of
PLACE
September 2006
PLACE and representatives of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural
England (CPRE), Council for National Parks (CNP), Friends of the Lake
District (FLD) and the National Association for Areas of Outstanding Natural
Beauty meets the director of Ofgem (Office of Gas and Electricity Markets)
to discuss issues around “undergrounding” parts of the National Grid.
August 2006 “Planning” magazine (the journal of the Royal Town Planning
Institute) prints a letter from PLACE demonstrating the inaccuracy of an
earlier article. The letter is critical of the current approach of the
mobile phone industry to environmental issues.
April 2006 PLACE “Open Meeting” hosted by Andrew Darke at Field House,
Gloucestershire. Six people gave presentations on a wide variety of
subjects.
February 2006
PLACE receives full support from CPRE for its “undergrounding” initiative
for a section of the National Grid lying within the Peak National Park.
January 2006
Arts Council Grant of £4,500 for “Views,
Vistas and Reverie - Period 2” collaboration with the Forestry Commission.
This will establish a best practice project on FC land for the design and
siting of mobile telecoms infrastructure in landscape .
This curriculum
vitae contains only the activities of the artist since 1999. For the whole
c.v., please contact the artist. Thank you.
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