Artist Placement Group (1976)
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The Artist Placement Group is now at a cross-roads. For the past nine years it has been grant-aided by the Arts Council. Aid was terminated in 1975 on the grounds that the Artist Placement Group should be self-supporting. (It should be noted that since 1966 the Artist Placement Group has obtained £18,320 in fees for artists plus £12,260 in materials and facilities; this sum is one third more than that contributed by the Arts Council.) There is little doubt that the Arts Council has found the Artist Placement Group’s speculative character, its “intangibility” and the uncertainty of its “results” hard to assimilate. Predictably, non-art organisations have been more willing to accept the open-brief concept than organisations within art. The founders of the Artist Placement Group identified a need and fulfil a role which the Arts Council should itself have identified and should be fulfilling (the Arts Council is a mediating mechanism between artists and the public). In relation to the ambition of the Artist Placement Group’s programme the funds available to implement it have always been puny, thereby producing a vicious spiral situation. The Artist Placement Group has developed a very direct method of achieving a rapprochement between the artist and the society from which he is alienated, and has accumulated a fund of practical experience of value to the whole art community.
The Artist Placement Group Bibliography
> (1966). Art Placement Group. (APG), 11 pp. booklet.
> John Latham. (1969). APG since 1965 ... from various papers. Control, (5), pp. 18-20.
> (January 1971). Aert and economics. Catalyst, p. 4.
> Naseem Khan. (2 August 1971). Artist on the Shop Floor. The Guardian.
> (1971). Offer for Sale. (APG Research Ltd), 22 pp.
> (1971). Inn 70: records of an exhibition located in the period 1970/71. Hayward Gallery, London.
> Guy Brett. (14 December 1971). How Professional? The Times.
> S. Braden. (12-18 November 1971). Exhibitions: APG. Time Out, (Part 1); (19-25 November 1971). Time Out, (Part 2).
> Peter Fuller. (18 December 1971). Inn 70: the Artist Placement Group. Arts Review.
> (1972). Artist Placement Group. (APG), 16 pp. prospectus.
> Peter Welton and David Sless. (January 1972). An open letter to APG. Studio International, p. 7.
> Johan Steivensoon. (February 1972). Art in Industry (letter). Studio International, p. 45.
> Jurgen Harten. (April 1972). An open letter to the Bishop of Carlisle. Studio International, pp. 146-148.
> Anthony Tucker. (1 May 1974). Artist Placement Group. The Guardian.
[A more recent and thoughtful account of the Artist Placement Group entitled “Rate of Return” was written by Claire Bishop and published in Artforum, October 2010.]
Artist Placements (APG)
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Ian Breakwell Stuart Brisley Roger Coward Hugh Davies Andre Dipper Gareth Evans Barry Flanagan/ x Alan Sekers David Hall Leonard Hessing John Latham Georges Levantis Ian Munro David Parsons Lois Price Jeffrey Shaw Marie Yates * |
British Rail 1973. Department of Health, 1976. Hille Co Ltd, 1970. Peterlee Development Corporation, 1975. Inner Areas Study, Birmingham. Department of the Environment, 1975. Department of Health, 1976. Esso Petroleum Co Ltd, 1971. British Steel Corporation, 1969-70. The Scott Bader Co Ltd, 1971. Scottish Television, 1970.* British (European) Airways, 1970.* ICI Fibres Ltd. 1970. National Coal Board, 1970. Clare Hall Hospital, 1970.* Proteus-Bigging, 1973.* Scottish Office, 1976. Ocean Fleets Ltd, 1974-5. Brunel University, 1970. Post Office, 1970. British Rail, 1973. Milton Keynes Development Corporation, 1970.* The National Bus Company, 1975. Brunei University, 1970.* |
John A. Walker has written several books including John Latham: The incidental person— his art and ideas, Middlesex University Press (1995).
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