On Plon Air

An image with a pale yellow frame, the image shows and lilac hued background wall with a domestic air freshener made from glass with green gel in a wave pattern on the left , next to it is a abstract figure sculpture made of marble.

For Art Licks Weekend 2018, 12ø tests the framework of the sculpture park, synonymous with luxurious and blockbuster institutions, manipulating this cemented formula, trying to create a more dynamic version. How do you create a sculpture park, without the big production budgets, the large crew, macho artworks and of course, without your own park?

Featuring works by Ikra Arshad, Ellie MacGarry, Liam Fallon, Pester and Rossi and Eva Duerden, artists were invited to consider sculptural loopholes of making what would normally be a static monument now a transportable & accommodating work, for a travelling garden, opportunistically exploiting london’s parks. Refreshing their configuration each day, where the works aren’t there cemented in, waiting to be admired but instead following you around, dropping in & disappearing just as quickly

Taking its name from the art term en plein air, referring to a tradition of painting outdoors, we will curate outdoors taking advantage of being nomadic.

... after all it’s just big expensive stuff on grass, so why can’t we make our own?

A photograph of a park. In the foreground is the Art Licks Weekend Poster on an A board, and in the background are numerous works by commissioned artists.
A photograph of a park. In the foreground is a pastel coloured outline of a comet with turquoise , pink and yellow blobs painted on it, this shape is standing on two green colour garden sticks that are stucking the ground so that it stands upright.
A photograph of a park. In the foreground are numerous works by commissioned artists, to the right is a blue inflatable with various colour full strands coming off it and inside you can see two peoples legs at the bottom wearing primary colours.

 

A photograph of a park. In the foreground are two people one with lilac tied back hair and a red jacket facing towards to camera, the other has short brown hair and wearing all black, and facing away from the camera.
A photograph of a park. In the foreground are two works by commissioned artists, in the immediate foreground is a white metal frame with a staggered step shape, there is a yellow tube that is carrying water from the brown tub on the ground.
A photograph of a park. In the foreground are three people, each wearing a brightly colour suit with a hood , they are all greens yellows, reds and blues, they are all wearing backpacks with tubes of the same material coming out of the bags, this the