Advance Press Release - February 14th 2003

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Artranspennine03 is a transregional exhibition of publicly sited contemporary art to be held across the North of England from 23rd May - 16 August 2003. For those who may not remember, Artranspennine was established with a large scale exhibition during the summer of 1998. ATP98 was organised by The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds and Tate, Liverpool and was always intended as the first in a series of such blockbuster shows. For a variety of reasons no subsequent ATP exhibition has ever been mounted and in this sense the Artranspennine brand had become vacant.  

Curated by Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson this is the second in the Artranspennine series. And whilst the budget for the show has been slashed from £3million in 1998 to a mere £30 in 2003 the show will, in all other regards, follow in the footsteps of its predecessor.   With an opening exactly 5 years to the day that ATP98 opened, and presenting the very best in contemporary public art, this show will bring together 50 artists working in public sites between Liverpool and Hull.

The projects being shown include:- a web campaign for the adoption of .eccles as a top level domain; a set of deely-boppers mounted on a foam head in a Pudsey living room; a silent auction in a Liverpool branch of Oxfam; a showing of personal memorabilia at the Huddersfield Ukrainian club; a demonstration of remote control beer cans in the Rochdale canal; the placement of 300 cream buns on a pink carpet in Macclesfield; a project to encourage Americans to leave the USA and seek economic, social or cultural asylum. 

Also being shown is a film of giant ants traversing the transpennine region; a performance for one on the banks of the Humber; paper aeroplanes launched from tall buildings in cities between Liverpool and Hull and the sound of bleating sheep broadcast from a mobile pirate radio station driving up and down the M62.
Artranspennine encompasses the celebratory and the mundane. One artist is commemorating the 150th anniversary of George Cayley’s historic first manned flight over Yorkshire. Another has agreed to stay at his home in Manchester and wait for the phone to ring – 2 hours a week for the twelve week duration of the show.

Curators Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, “We’re very excited. The show is gonna be a whopper! Art of the most inventive and subversive nature will be sneakig into public sites all over the North of England. No one asked us to organise the second edition of this show but given the brilliant ideas that the artists have come up with we know that its going to make a lot of people very happy. And that includes the public.”The artists selected for ATP03 are:

Philip Barnes, Richard Bartle, Dave Beech, Emma Bolland,
Brass Art, James Brown, Pavel Büchler, Matt Butt,
Lucienne Cole, Stuart Croft, Mike Dawson, Gillian Dyson,
Oliver East, Stuart Edmundson, Tim Etchells, Leo Fitzmaurice,
Ryan Gander, Stefan Gec, Jason Green, Astrid Greenberry,
Pippa Hale, Tony Hall, Duncan Hamilton,
Kerry Harker, Shelley Heath,Andy Hewitt & Mel Jordan, Clare Hope,
John Hornsby, James Hutchinson & Rachel Goodyear,
Hilary Jack, Tony Kemplen, Pippa Koszerek, Laurence Lane,
Kwong Lee, Rita McBride & Glen Rubsamen, Jim Medway,
Lee Merrill, Paul Needham, John Newling, David Osbaldeston,
Anneke Pettican & Spencer Roberts, Graham Parker,
Magnus Quaffe, Charles Quick, Paul Rooney, S5 Curator,
Jen Southern, Thomson & Craighead, David Titley,
Martin Vincent, Gavin Wade, Watson & Wakeman and Lawrence Weiner

For more information contact the press office at press@artranspennine.org.uk or
call 07939 566569 or 07932 781536.

Artranspennine03
- Revealing the Transpennine Region

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We are delighted to announce that the media sponsor for Artranspennine03 is Flux Magazine.

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