Town Hall Artworks: Artists Commissions

We are delighted to announce the seven artists commissioned for Town Hall Artworks 2012.

Bernd Behr
Bethan Lloyd Worthington
Corinne Felgate
Kristian de la Riva
Michaela Nettell
Sarah Baker
Toby Christian

Since 2009 Artsadmin has worked with Town Hall Hotel & Apartments, a five star hotel in Bethnal Green's Grade II-listed Old Town Hall building, to commission a major series of artworks by local artists.

The second phase of artworks will be installed between November 2011 and April 2012. Whereas the inaugural series of commissions focused on context, locality and history, the second phase will thematically explore works that convey the future, embracing exuberance, desire (material and sensual), and the notion of hotels as transitory and utopian sites of pleasure and hyper-mobility.

Artists commissioned for the first phase were Bálint Bolygó, Debbie Lawson, Peter Liversidge, Claire Morgan, Zoë Mendelson and walkwalkwalk, selected by a panel comprising 2007 Turner Prize shortlisted artist Zarina Bhimji, artist Frances Scott, rare architects Nathalie Rozencwajg and Michel da Costa Gonçalves, Artsadmin’s Director Gill Lloyd MBE, Manick Govinda, Nikki Tomlinson and Iwona Blazwick OBE (Director, Whitechapel Gallery) from an initial 176 applications.
More about the artists...

"Like Town Hall itself, each of these artworks combines the old and the new, embedded firmly within the history and culture of the East End whilst at the same time adding something exciting, innovative and absolutely contemporary to the building."
Peng Loh, Town Hall Hotel & Apartments

Town Hall Hotel and Apartments website