SJames Situations

Situations is an arts organisation dedicated to commissioning and producing compelling and imaginative new forms of public art. For over a decade we have been supporting artists to make extraordinary ideas happen in unusual and surprising places, directly engaging in people’s lives and offering alternative ways in which to see, hear and connect to each other. We believe that artists are charismatic agents of change. We invest in their process, challenge established studio or theatre-based artists to step into the public realm and nurture emerging artistic, producing and writing talent. (www.situations.org.uk)

Our growing portfolio of projects also feeds an on-going public programme of events, discussions, publications and debates called Public Art Now, which seeks to improve the conditions for, and skills to produce, new forms of public art nationally and internationally.

We commission and produce both temporary and long-term public artworks such as Theaster Gates’ first major UK project Sanctum; the 100-year-long Future Library in Oslo by artist Katie Paterson; Michael Sailstorfer’s Folkestone Digs which sparked a gold rush on the South East coast and Alex Hartley’s Nowhereisland for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

Situations is an Arts Council England National Portfolio organisation and is generously supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, John Ellerman Foundation and the University of the West of England, Bristol. For further information please see our website:

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