New Public Art in Milton Keynes: Something & Son and Lucy Joyce

Thursday 23 March / 7pm / Free

 

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Join us to hear Something & Son and Lucy Joyce discuss their respective practices and the development of new works of public art for Oxley Park and Newton Leys.

 

Something & Son is a London based practice founded by Andrew Merritt and Paul Smyth working across art, design and architecture. Their work is rooted in a inquisitiveness and experimentation reflecting their varied backgrounds and shared passion for socially driven and environmental projects that tackle the challenges of our time. 

 

A keenness to collaborate has led them to work alongside many different professions including swift experts, mushroom men, scrapyard merchants, farmers, horticulturalists, scientists and sociologists in the realisation of their projects.

 

Andy and Paul are also co-founders of Makerversity in London and Amsterdam.

 

Recent lectures, talks and workshops have included the Serpentine Gallery, Kunst-Werke (Berlin), the Science Museum Dana Centre, Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute (Zurich), Institute of Contemporary Art, the Barbican, SALT (Istanbul) and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

 

http://somethingandson.com

 

 

 

 

Lucy Joyce has exhibited internationally. She was recently selected for The London Open at Whitechapel Gallery, 2015 and Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2015. She is currently working on a new Public Commission in Milton Keynes until mid -2017, she recently completed a Public Commission in North Woolwich, London this year (2016) and a public commission in Sittingbourne, Kent in 2015. Lucy co-leads the Youth Collective at Camden Arts Centre and is a visiting artist working regularly with the education programmes at South London Gallery and Tate as well as art schools and art departments both London and regionally based and was Artist in Residence at Tate Britain and Tate Modern in 2013-14. 

http://www.lucyjoyce.net

 

 

Public Art in Milton Keynes
Public art in Milton Keynes is about inviting the vision, creativity and skills of artists, to engage people freely with place, in a well-considered way. Over the last 40 years, Milton Keynes has developed an excellent reputation for public art development, with over 220 public artworks across the city. The Public Art Unit within Milton Keynes Council supports the commissioning of new pieces and the care and conservation of existing works.