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Exhibition History

2008  Fillmore Center Plaza public art commission. Collaboration with Sculpturesite Gallery: Axis Architects: Laramar Group. Fillmore Neighbourhood, San Francisco, USA.

Phoenix Parkway. Site specific gateway feature for historic site, Corby. Collaboration with Wilson Bowden Developers: CORUS: SGP Architects and Masterplanners

2007  Landscape Institute Award. Breaking Boundaries, Ashford. Collaboration: Whitelaw Turkington (Landscape Architects)
Rootstein Hopkins Award. Drawing

The Clicker. Bronze.The Friends of the New Walk. Leicester. Collaboration with Munro & Whitten, Landscape Architects

Strange Meeting. 3m x 3m x 3m. Marble. Beijing City Space Sculpture Exhibition. China

By Hook or by Crook. Bronze/ oak/ steel. Commissioned by Tesco Ireland for the site of  Pierce Engineering, Wexford, Ireland.

Lead Artist-Kent County Council. Collaboration, Jacobs and Whitelaw Turkington, (Landscape Architects), Ashford ring road project. On-going project into 2008.

2006  Pound Mill. Stainless steel, corten and concrete. Site-specific urban regeneration of the historical site, “Meeting of the “Two Rivers”, Staines. Spellthorne Borough Council

Morton Palms. Phase 2.State of the art Business Park in Darlington. Commissioned by Commissions North, Newcastle upon Tyne. Collaboration with Red Box Design, Architects and funded by City & Northern (Developers). http://www.commissionsnorth.org/showcase/portfolio/276

Early stages. FX Stone Beijing. Both sections of the marble sections of the sculpture have been completed and awaiting assembly. Picture by Sally Liu Breaking Boundaries. Lead Artist appointed by Kent County Council to collaborate with Whitelaw Turkington Architects on urban regeneration project in Ashford Kent. Works will include developing site sensitive sculpture, paving, seating, features and other works within the proposed new Elwick Road/West Street district, Ashford

2005  NZ323135. 5 meter tall cor ten & stainless steel. Commissioned by City & Northern (Developers) in collaboration with Red Box Design (Architects), and Wardell Armstrong, (Landscape Architects): Newcastle upon Tyne in collaboration with Arts Council, Commissions North. Morton Palms Business Park Development, Darlington, Co, Durham. Unveiled by Rt. Hon. Alan Milburn MP

The Great Artistic Metropolis. Exhibitor and delegate. Oxford House, Bethnal Green Landor conference hosted by Art & Architecture Journal

Bowes Moor. 3-meter tall, wall-based sculpture. Commissioned by Systems Engineering Innovation Centre, Holywell Park UK. Celebration of collaboration with B.A.E. and unveiled by Mr. Ron Dennis, C.O.E McLaren/Mercedes

Sculpture & Design: Symposium. Faculty of Arts & Architecture, University of Brighton: Plenary panel member and exhibitor. Supported by the Henry Moore Foundation.

A view of the sculpture once it had been assembled onto a granite base. FX Stone. Beijing. Picture by Mr. Chen.

Another view of the sculpture in the stone yard. Picture by Sally Liu.
2004  The Klansman. 4-meter tall steel and glass sculpture. Commissioned by EMAAR and Air Emirates for the Burgh Dubai, Dubai, U.A.E. Assistance from Carillion PLC

England representative. Stone & Steel Sculpture symposium. Dubai. Sponsored by EMAAR, Air Emirates and Systems Engineering, Dubai

Dal Fabrro's Chariot. 30 feet tall corten & stainless steel sculpture for Beetham Towers, Liverpool. Sculpture selected as Tate Liverpool’s audit of Public Sculpture, City of Culture 2008. Commissioned by Beetham Organisation and collaboration with Carillion PLC, Aedus Architects Ltd and PlanArt Ltd. Beetham Tower, Old Hall Street, Liverpool, UK. Art & Architecture Journal.

Sentinel.  3.5-meter tall sculpture. Cor ten & stainless steel. Selection via international jury panel for Sculpture by the Sea. Invited Artist. International Sculpture Exhibition, Bondi coastline, Sydney, Australia. Sponsored by Kodak, Sydney Water, Waverley Council, SXS.

Sculpture within the Urban Environment. Conference. Keynote speaker  “The first Ten years” collaboration with Cass Sculpture Foundation, UK, at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Australia.

2003  The Signaler. 24 feet tall, corten & stainless steel. Commissioned by Highland Metrobrook PLC. Collaboration with REID International (Architects): John Rowan & Partners: The Rushes, Loughborough, UK

The Navigator. 18 feet tall cor ten & stainless steel sculpture. Commissioned by Ipswich Borough Council, The River Action Group, Commissions East, and Arts Council for Orwell Riverside Development, Ipswich, UK

John Atkin, Sculpture & Drawings. Solo exhibition of drawings and sculptures relating to the Orwell Riverside Project. Publication launch, “The Navigator”, ISBN 0-906688-40-X

1st Guilin International Sculpture Exhibition, Guilin. China. Competition selection, juried panel, and sculpture retained for permanent outdoor sculpture collection

Railway Rumble. Internal entrance lobby commission, commissioned by Conran & Partners. Great Eastern Hotel, Liverpool Street, London

Other selected project partners on recent successful commissions include:

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Contact John Atkin:
11 Robin Hood Lane
Kingston Vale
London
SW15 3PU
Tel: 0208 5498551
Fax: 0208 5498551
E-mail: john@johnatkin.net
www.sculpturesolutionsinurbandesign.co.uk
www.johnatkin.net

Big pictures:

John Atkin and fellow sculptor "Yoshi" at the Great Wall and the Birds Nest. Picture by Sally Liu

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