City Club Presentation - Gareth Jones and Nils Norman

Thursday 10 December 2015 / 7pm / Free

 

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Based on an original scheme proposed in the 1970s for a national leisure complex in Central Milton Keynes, City Club is an ambitious proposal to animate the public spaces surrounding MK Gallery and the northern end of Midsummer Boulevard.

Please join artists Gareth Jones and Nils Norman as they present the findings of their Arts Council funded research into the Utopian vision behind Milton Keynes and its relationship to contemporary art.

There will also be an opportunity to view the latest plans for the MK Gallery expansion.

 

 

Gareth Jones (born 1965) is an artist who grew up in Milton Keynes. He studied Fine Art at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic and lives in London. His work spans drawing, sculpture, installation, exhibition making and printed matter. In 2003, he organised the exhibition Helmut Jacoby: Milton Keynes Drawings, which looked at the politics of public space through the prism of the hand-drawn visualisations of the unbuilt city, and in 2011 he staged a solo exhibition at MK Gallery that explored how identity is constructed through architecture, advertising and art. These themes will be developed in his forthcoming book about the city for Four Corners Books.

 

Nils Norman (born 1966) is an artist living in London. He works across the disciplines of public art, architecture and urban planning. Norman’s work merges utopian alternatives with current urban design to create a humorous critique of the discrete histories and functions of public art and urban planning. He has completed major public art projects, including a pedestrian bridge, bird screens, playgrounds and a landscaping project for the City of Roskilde, Denmark. He has exhibited at Tate Modern and Britain, completed commissions for London Underground, Bristol City Council, and is lead artist for a large infrastructural project in Cambridge.

 

 

Gareth Jones and Nils Norman have received support from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.