incertainplaces

This video podcast shows footage from 22nd November 2006 when artist John Newling presented his most recent work at the University of Central Lancashire for In Certain Places.

John Newling is a British artist with an international reputation and has installed works across Europe and the USA. Over the decades he has produced large scale works within the public domain such as major commissions for The Post Office and The Inland Revenue and his many exhibitions include a retrospective at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. In 2006, Newling won the Rouse Kent Public Art Award for his work ‘Chatham Vines’, in which he grew grape vines along the central aisle of a disused church.

John Newling is based in Nottingham where he is currently Professor of Installation Sculpture at The Nottingham Trent University. At the time of this lecture, he was working on The Preston Markets Mystery Project, a commission for In Certain Places .

Credits: John Newling

For more information about John Newling and the Preston Market Mystery Project please visit www.john-newling.com and www.lossofmystery.com

This talk was commissioned by Preston’s public art initiative In Certain Places. For more information please visit www.incertainplaces.org

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