SPEAKING OF ART:

In 2005 Atoll were asked to curate 10 talks and debates informing art and architecture to help inform Preston's regeneration, and was commissioned by the Harris Museum & Art Gallery and UCLAN, and is now hosted on their In Certain Places website:

Above: Grand Gestures: The Temporary Spectacle in Public Art                                    19 Jan - Lewis Biggs & Clive Gillman

1. PUBLIC ART AT THE COAL-FACE

10 Nov - Louise Wyman/English Partnerships & Geoff Woods/Working pArts

2. WORKING THE SITE: ART COLLABORATION AND PROCESS

8 Dec (Vernon Lecture Theatre) - Cathy Newbery/IXIA & Nayan Kulkarni 

3. GRAND GESTURES: THE TEMPORARY SPECTACLE IN PUBLIC ART

19 Jan - Lewis Biggs/Biennial  & Clive Gillman

Above: Grand Gestures: The Temporary Spectacle in Public Art                                    19 Jan - Lewis Biggs & Clive Gillman

4. THE ROLE OF ARTIST AND CURATOR

9 Feb - Peter Sharpe/Kielder  & Nick Coombe/Stickland Coombe

5. THE ART OF GOOD DESIGN

9 March - Robert Powell/Public-Arts and Walter Jack/Walter Jack Studio

6. PUBLIC ART AS A PHYSICAL GAMING ENVIRONMENT

13 April - Taylor Nuttall/Folly and Maria Stukoff 

7. ROMANTIC DETACHMENT' IN THE NORTH

11 May - Adam Sutherland/Grizedale  and Bedwyr Williams

8. ART, REGENERATION & COMMUNITY

8 June - Community Representative/Alison and Chris Davis/Alison

9. THE ICONIC BUILDING AND COSMIC ART - The search for a meaningful and shared language in the city

13 July - Libby Raper/Culture NW and Charles Jencks 

Above: The Iconic Building and Cosmic Art                                                                  13 Jul - Charles Quick, Libby Raper and Charles Jencks