Bristol-based pub­lic art com­mis­sion­ers Field Art Projects and Situations have been appoin­ted to pro­duce new pub­lic art­works for the sea­side town of Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset. Launching in September 2010, Wonders of Weston will fea­ture art­works by six inter­na­tion­ally acclaimed con­tem­por­ary artists: Ruth Claxton, Tim Etchells, Lara Favaretto, Tania Kovats in asso­ci­ation with Grant Associates, raum­laborber­lin and Wrights & Sites.

Responding to the chan­ging for­tunes of our coastal towns since the decline and rise again of the British sea­side hol­i­day, each of the artists has developed an art­work which will cre­ate a new talk­ing point or meet­ing place for North Somerset’s primary resort.

Alongside the six new art­works, they are invit­ing nom­in­a­tions for the Seventh Wonder of Weston. Will it be the derel­ict Birnbeck Pier or the newly rebuilt Grand Pier; the best fish and chips in the South West; a spe­cial place from which to con­tem­plate the Bristol Channel, or even a neighbour’s tea cosy col­lec­tion? To nom­in­ate your Seventh ‘Wonder of Weston’ go to www.wondersofweston.org

The pro­gramme with be pro­duced by Situations and will launch on the week­end of 25–26 September 2010.

FIELD ART PROJECTS — Wonders of Weston.

Situations