Coloured glass canopy for Home Office building
Glass canopy: coloured acrylic film bonded between layers of glass, installed in metal frames on roof of building.
2003-2005-
About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Home Office, 2 Marsham Street
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About the artist
Liam Gillick was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire and studied at Goldsmiths College (1984–1987). His many solo exhibitions including Literally at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003 and The Wood Way, at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2002. In 2009 he represented Germany at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Numerous public projects and interventions include Ft. Lauderdale Airport in 2002; the new Home Office government building in London in 2005; and the Lufthansa Headquarters in Frankfurt in 2006. Gillick regularly contributes to art journals and has taught at Columbia University, New York, since 1997.
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Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- grid, abstract, government building
- Materials & Techniques
- acrylic film, glass (glass as material), canopy, coloured
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Details
- Artist
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Liam Gillick (1964 - )
- Title
- Coloured glass canopy for Home Office building
- Date
- 2003-2005
- Medium
- Glass canopy: coloured acrylic film bonded between layers of glass, installed in metal frames on roof of building.
- Acquisition
- Commissioned by the GAC on behalf of Bouygues UK Limited for the Home Office
- GAC number
- 18003/3