Speechly Bircham

“We are making a major investment in the new office and would like to make a statement of our identity, confidence and that the firm is moving forward”

From this brief we chose and commissioned works of art by established artists as well as up and coming artists such as Martha Winter and Mickey Dell and works by international artists such as Francois Pont and Ralph Keigal.

 

Together with their existing artwork their collection which has been built up over the years containing works in media from photography to oil and sculpture to relief’s has been much enlarged while still remaining in harmony with the state of the art new offices.

 

  • Object – Source, select and supply artworks to complement existing collection and move to new offices.
  • Client – Speechly Bircham
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – City Of London
  • Status – Completed
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“Art Contact took note of our brief extremely well by contributing to the overall success of our new offices.”

Tim Raper

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Princess Grace Hospital – 5th Floor Patient Rooms

Princess Grace Hospital part of HCA Healthcare Group. Our association with HCA goes back nearly two decades during which time we have provided a comprehensive art programme to reflect the clients international reputation as a healthcare provider.

In this case we were asked to supply artwork to brighten up the rooms while being aware of the stringent requirements of the healthcare environment.

Over the years, in conjunction with HCA we have developed a range of display products ideally suited to the healthcare environment.

  • Object – Source, select and supply artworks for the private rooms on the 5th floor of Princes Garce Hospital
  • Client – HCA, Princess Grace Hospital
  • Sector – Healthcare
  • Location – Marylebone, London
  • Status – Completed
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BMA Members Lounge

‘Trees’
The brief was to produce substantial artworks that would have considerable impact on the space at the same time as creating a tranquil atmosphere.
Images of trees were chosen to help create the calm and the use of non-reflective acrylic panels giving the impact that the space required.

View other work by Gudawer Kalirai:

  • The Waldron Health Centre, New Cross
  • Nottingham City Hospital – ‘Nottingham Forest’
  • Roche Diagnostics – ‘Trees’
  • Object – To provide artwork for the member’s lounge that created a tranquil atmosphere while also making an impact on the vast space.
  • Client – British Medical Association
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location –BMA House, Tavistock Square
  • Status – Completed
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Chelsea Diagnostics

The brief for this project was to bring the natural botanical world into this urban healthcare centre. To provide a holistic and therapeutic environment and to create a peaceful atmosphere for the patients.

Art Contact sourced images of flora and fauna from three established photographers to create the right blend of imigary for the space.

 

Digital image files were printed onto a specialist wipe clean board. This utilitarian board was appropriate within this health care environment to comply with rigorous hygiene standards.

The feed back from this project following the opening has been extremely favourable having satisfied the brief in creating an extremely peaceful environment for staff and patients alike.

  • Object – Source, select and supply artworks for diagnostic centre
  • Client – HCA – Chelsea Diagnositic
  • Sector – Healthcare
  • Location – 280 Kings Road
  • Status – Completed
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Runnymede Hotel – Lock Restaurant

New Lock Restaurant at the Runnymede Hotel has been completed.

Padlocks and Keys have been mounted in a inventive way – like jewels in a velvet mount.

  • Object – Sorce, select and supply artwork for the Lock Restaurant at the Runnymede Hotel.
  • Client – Runnymede-On-Thames
  • Sector – Hospitality
  • Location – Runnymede, Surrey
  • Status – Completed
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Private Client – Garden Sculpture

This sculpture was commissioned for a Private Client who wished to surprise his wife for their wedding anniversary. The client requested an abstract figurative sculpture which had symbolic references to the anniversary. The two figures in the sculpture can be seen to be entwined in an embrace.

The sculpture ‘Accord’ by John Brown is made out Aluminium Resin and stands on a stone base on top of an oak plinth. The total height including the base is approximately 1340mm High.

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  • Object – Source, select and commission sculpture for private client
  • Client – Private Client
  • Sector – Residential
  • Location – Surrey
  • Status – Completed
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The Runnymede Hotel – Runnymede-On-Thames

Over a period of time Art Contact was commissioned to commission and supply artworks for various areas within the hotel.

A large panoramic view of the Thames by one of our photographers for the link corridor. The image, taken on the banks of the Thames just up the river from the Runnymede Hotel, is mounted onto an aluminium panel in order to create a strong contemporary look.

 

A series of paintings were also commissioned for various areas within the hotel depicting local scenes in Runnymede and on the Thames.

A tapestry of ‘River Birches’, in silk and copper wire. The brief was to ‘soften’ the travertine wall in the Left Bank Restaurant area. In keeping with the restaurants theme of ‘nature’, Art Contact commissioned the artist to create a 2400 x 1370mm tapestry which was mounted using 50mm diameter stainless steel tubes.

  • Object – Source, select and commission various artworks for the Runnymede Hotel
  • Client – Runnymede Hotel
  • Sector – Hospitality
  • Location – Runnymede-on-Thames, Surrey
  • Status – Completed
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Bromley College – Tree of Knowledge

Art Contact were appointed by Bromley College for a public art commission. The sculpture, entitled ‘The Tree of Knowledge’ made out of galvanised steel stands high at 5 metres.

The writing which embellishes the sculpture was inspired by a workshop held between the artist and the students and staff of Bromley College.

  • Object – Source, select & commission sculpture for College garden
  • Client – Bromley College
  • Sector – Education
  • Location –  Bromley
  • Status – Completed
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Lord North Street Ltd

A selection of black and white photographs.

Scenes depicting London at night and marine life

  • Object – Source, select and commission artwork for offices
  • Client – Lord North Street Ltd
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Marylebone, London
  • Status – Completed
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Gardiner & Theobald LLP

Having met Kevin Arnold from G&T to view the new site for site specific artworks, our rational behind the new commission was to take into account the work that Gardiner & Theobald specialise in, so in a loose way, we chose works which reflected their business in construction and consultancy.

Two artists were commissioned to fulfil the brief, firstly Brazillian ceramic artist Valeria Nascimento who created a wall sculpture ‘Ordered Chance’ which was constructed from ceramic cubes to represent Gardiner & Theobald’s position both in the locality and also in the construction industry. Secondly, a wall panel was commissioned from the light artist Chris Wood.

  • Object – Source, select and commission artworks for new offices
  • Client – Gardiner & Theobald LLP
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – London
  • Status – Completed
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Private Client – Garden Sculpture

The clients brief was to commission a young up and coming artist for a site specific sculpture.

The artist constructed three figures, depecting the clients three children, in powder coated steel.

  • Object – Source, select and commission Sculptures for garden of private residence.
  • Client – Mr & Mrs Jackson
  • Sector – Private Residence
  • Location – Surrey
  • Status – Completed
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Crystal Centre, Chelmsford

The Crystal Centre is a new-build residential and outreach facility for the ‘elderly with dementia’ developed at Broomfield Hospital (Chelmsford) by the North Essex Mental Health Partnership Trust.

In the two Reception Areas, the ‘blue waters’ of the seascape vistas reference the ‘clear thinking’ ethos of the Centre.

Through the various activities and therapies available at the Centre, the patients will be working towards the same ‘clearer thinking’. However, within the Day Unit, the images were carefully chosen to stimulate patients’ memories and assist them in recalling experiences from normal family life.

  • Object – Source, select and supply artworks for dementia centre
  • Client – Crystal Centre
  • Sector – Healthcare/residential
  • Location – Chelmsford
  • Status – Completed
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PPD Development

Art Contact’s brief from MEPC- Granta Park and PPD was for a sculpture to be sited infront of the new PPD building. They wanted something clean and modern, and abstract in style. Virginia Grub of Art Contact, selected three artists who she felt would be perfect for the space. Each artist presented their brief to PPD and Granta Park, from which one artist was chosen to develope their concept further.

Title: ‘Family’
The work dipicts a Father,Son/Daughter and Mother figure, placing the work slightly leaning towards each other to show a family nurturing their young.
This is composed of three sculptures. Each sculpture is fabricated in grade 316 stainless steel with satin brushed effect finish.
The talest piece is 4m high, then 2.5m to 2m high.

  • Object – Source, select and commission sculpture for outside new offices.
  • Client – PPD Development
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Granta Park, Cambridge
  • Status – Completed
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Private Client – Bolton’s Estate

A selection of commissions by contemporary artists in a variety of media from leather to metal mesh to graffiti on canvas specially selected by Art Contact for a private client in West London.

Leather wall piece in black and white and the metal mesh artworks are both by well established British Artists.

The Diptych Graffiti Commission by well known British graffiti artist.

  • Object – Source,select and commission various artworks for a private residence
  • Client – Private Client
  • Sector – Residential
  • Location – Bolton’s Estate, London
  • Status – Completed
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Majedie Investment Plc

Art Contact were invited to view and value Majedie’s exiting 19th Century antique maps. Majedie also engaged Art Contact to consult on the best solution to preserve these maps.

We advised the client to encase the delicate maps in a specially designed perspex box to include the existing batten frame work. These maps are now well preserved for the next 100 years.

  • Object – Conservation and Display of a collection of old maps.
  • Client – Majedie Investment Plc
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – City of London
  • Status – Completed
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Financial Institution – Bankside

Art work supplied for a financial institution for their new offices at Bankside.

Art Contact had worked with this organisation for some years and in 2009 we were asked to select artwork to complete this development.

A wide variety of artists were chosen to complement the design and to reflect the diverse nature of the organisation.

  • Object – Source, select and supply artworks for offices in Bankside
  • Client – Financial Institute
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Bankside, London
  • Status – Completed
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Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital – Bolsover Street

The brief is to develop and implement an art strategy that is relevant to the work of the hospital and the quality of care and expertise offered by RNOH specialists which also integrates with the approach taken to interior design.

The art work will support the internal approach to way finding and therefore needs to incorporate the principle colour schemes planned for the facility.

The long and illustrious history of the hospital and the dedication of its staff should be represented and where possible the art should include the opportunity to distract visitors by providing access to the ‘story’ of the RNOH.

In answer to the brief Art Contract developed a series of story walls to inform visitors about the RNOH together with a series of graphic images printed onto acrylic and floated on the walls with hidden fixings.

  • Object – Source, select and commission various graphic works for the RNOH
  • Client – R.N.O.H
  • Sector – Healthcare
  • Location – Bolsover Street, London
  • Status – Completed
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Whittington Hospital

A number of locations requiring art were identified and suitable artists were proposed and designs accepted.

The design and production of the pieces were all completed on time and on budget despite various ongoing problems with the build schedule outside our control resulting in several redesigns of several of the pieces.

Friezes were installed on the 2 and 3rd floors, a large montage was installed in the main reception and a colourful mural on the ground floor.

Outside a parralax sculpture was designed and installed depicting the Hospital’s logo of the Cat and the ‘W’ which assembled and then dis-assembled as the designed viewing point was passed.

  • Object – Sorce, select and commission artworks for previously identified locations though out the public areas of the hospital.
  • Client – NHS Trust
  • Sector – Healthcare
  • Location – London
  • Status – Completed
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Limberhurst Gallery – Sculptures at Limberhurst

In conjunction with Limberhurst Gallery a summer exhibition of interior and exterior sculptures was arranged at Limberhurst Arts Centre near Cambridge.

Works by the following 34 artists were exhibited:

Dan Archer, Patrick Barker,
Dorothy Brook, John Brown,
Dick Budden, Mat Chivers,
Alan Foxley, Mel Fraser,
Fiona Goldbacher, Lee Granjean,

Simon Hitchens, Peter Leadbeater,
Heidi Lichterman,
Pierre Diamantopoulo,
David and Dante MacIlwaine,
Malcolm Martin & Gaynor Dowling,
Bernard McGuigan, Adrian Moakes,
Nicholas Moreton, Louise Plant,
Jim Rattenbury, Kate Risdale,
Colin Rose, Teo San Jose,
Matt Sanderson, Andrea Schulewitz,
Matt Stein, Richard Thornton,
Lucy Unwin, Ronald Westerhuis,
Alan Wilson, Deon Winter,
Rachel Wood & Stephen Wright

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  • Object – To arrange a sculpture exhibition in the gallery and grounds of Limberhurst Gallery.
  • Client – Limberhurst Gallery
  • Sector – Hotel & Leisure
  • Location –  nr Cambridge
  • Status – Completed
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Roche Diagnostics

A collection of contemporary art in which the subjects relate to nature, people and the area local to Burgess Hill.

The redeveloped building was decorated to a very high standard in a contemporary style, with attention to the smallest of details.

A brief was given to Art Contact to include ‘nature, people and the local area’ into the subject manner. These were included but not always in the most literal of senses, encouraging the staff and visitors to think about the works exhibited. Contemporary glassware was also commissioned including an illuminated plinth to light the glass works from beneath.

  • Object – Source, select and commission a collection of artworks for their new offices.
  • Client – Roche Diagnostic
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Burgess Hill
  • Status – Completed
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Association of British Insurers

A selection of historical stained glass panels were reused and modernised into a light box to fit the company’s contemporary space.

Art Contact also selected and supplied a number of abstract contemporary artworks for the meeting rooms and other spaces around the building.

  • Object – Restoration of stained glass panels and supply of display.
  • Client – Association of British Insurers
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – City of London
  • Status – Completed
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Taylor Wessing

Our brief was to incorporate existing artwork into the company’s contemporary offices, as well as to provide further artwork to complement the existing collection for the client facing areas on the 9th and 10th floors at New Gate Square.

As well as providing a full audit of their collection, Art Contact also sourced a variety of items producing an extensive portfolio from which the final items were selected.

The  existing collection and the new artworks were framed or re-framed as required to suit the decor of the new offices and installed as planned.

Object

  • Audit Collection, source select and supply artworks to complement the existing collection

Client

  • Taylor Wessing

Sector

  • Corporate

Location

  • City Of London

Status

  • Completed
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The Waldron Health Centre

The Waldron Health Centre, based in New Cross, groups 5 local GP practices along with ancillary community services (Pharmacy, Mother & Baby services, Community Youth Programmes, etc) into a building at the heart of the New Cross locality. The building benefits from a full-height atrium, clad in beech veneer, being he chosen location for  ‘New Cross’ montage which was commissioned for the 2nd Floor.

The montage, featuring local noteworthy architecture, highlights the rich mix of styles and forms that is the glory of urban London. The soft, pastel colourway was selected to harmonise both with the beech veneer of the atrium and with a dichroic film panel installation, installed as part of the build phase, on the 1st Floor.

In 2008 the Waldron Health Centre won the award for Better Primary Healthcare Building.

  • Object – Source, select and commission artwork for health centre
  • Client – Waldron Health Centre – NHS
  • Sector – Healthcare
  • Location – New Cross
  • Status – Completed
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“The PCT and its partners have been hugely impressed by Art Contact's abilities to deliver art projects in the health sector and would recommend them to any public sector bodies looking for a great value and hugely knowledgeable art consultancy service.”

Ben Maguire - Lewisham Primary Care Trust

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Exemplar

Digitally enhanced photographs of Forest with colours manipulated for the client in yellow,reds and purple to mach the interior of the reception area.

Mounted onto 3mm aluminium sheet and floated in frames with 10mm shadow gap around image in the tray frame.

Object – Source, select and commission artwork for ofices
Client – Exemplar
Sector – Corporate
Location – Bracknell
Status – Completed

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Voluntary Action – Sheffield

Commissioned on behalf of Voluntary Acton Sheffield for The Circle building by Art Contact. Concentric circles of perspex held within stainless steel framework and lit by computer-controlled LED’s producing a 11-minute lighting sequence.

Voluntary Action Sheffield commissioned Light Sculpture by Raphael Daden. Overall dimensions @ 2m x 150mm

  • Object – Source, select and commission light sculpture for exterior wall.
  • Client – Voluntary Action
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Sheffield
  • Status – Completed
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Coutts Bank

Art Contact was approached to augment their art collection to provide additional artworks for the client area at main Coutts in the Strand and also for the regional branch in Southampton.

A portfolio was produced following the brief and from this the artworks were selected. Once selected the artworks were framed and installed in both locations.

  • Object – Review and refresh artworks for client area in London and Southampton.
  • Client – Coutts
  • Sector – Offices and Corporate
  • Location –  London & Southampton
  • Status – Completed
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Bovis Lend Lease – Warrington, ‘Lewis Carroll’s Cat’

Commissioned on behalf of Bovis Lend Lease for the Golden Square Retail Mall, Warrington by Art Contact.

A 3-part ‘parallax’ installation along the East Street approach to the NW Knuckle. Commissioned in Anodised Aluminium to overall dimensions 3m (diameter) x 5m (spread).

This was a highly effective ‘parallax’ sculpture which seemed to assemble and de-assemble as approached along ‘East Street’. Parallax sculptures are designed to be seem ‘whole’ from one location, from all other positions they are in various stages of assembly.

  • Object – Source, select and commission sculpture for shopping centre
  • Client – Bovis Lend Lease
  • Sector – Retail
  • Location – Warrington
  • Status – Completed
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Bovis Lend Lease – Warrington, ‘Aurora’

Commissioned on behalf of Bovis Lend Lease for the Golden Square Retail Mall, Warrington by Art Contact.

Dichroic glass light sculpture by Chris Wood, consisting of 24 rails, each 2m long, with 9 dichroic glass elements 100 x 100mm on powder-coated stainless steel rails, installed within the roof cupola at the SE Knuckle.

As well as creating interest in the cupola, Aurora also displays a colourful pattern on the floor below which is constantly changing dependant on the direction of the light from outside.

  • Object – Source, select and commission artwork for shopping centre
  • Client – Bovis Lend Lease
  • Sector – Retail
  • Location – Warrington
  • Status – Completed
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European Bioinformatics Institute Internal Artwork

Dichroic Glass installation by Chris Wood, incorporating language relevant to the work in EBI.

‘It was decide to create an artwork using Dichroic glass, as the technical nature of the material is particularly suited to the scientific context’.

Tensioned cables running floor to ceiling supporting a series of dichroic glass fins with high impact polystyrene infils as shown. The overall dimensions of the glass arrangement is 1400 x 700mm.

  • Object – Source, select and commission light sculpture for EBI
  • Client – European Bioinformatics Institute at The Wellcome Trust
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Hinxton Hall, Cambridge
  • Status – Completed
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European Bioinformatics Institute – External Sculpture

EBI commissioned a sculpture on the approach to their building at Hinxton Hall. After an extensive selection process Colin Rose won the commission to complement his sculpture ‘You’ situated nearby

6 sided ‘Starball’ by Colin Rose, in mirror polished stainless steel.

6 sided ‘Starball’ by Colin Rose, in mirror polished stainless steel. 1.5m diameter

View another sculpture by Colin Rose – ‘You’

  • Object – Source, select and commission sculpture for EBI
  • Client – EBI at The Wellcome Trust
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Hinxton Hall, Cambridge
  • Status – Completed
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