27. Work Notes

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1977 Royal College of Art Abbey Minor Scholarship / Florence (Ghiberti / Brunelleschi)

“What is obtained from architecture, at all levels, is graduated experience. I would regard this as a fundamental problem. …the attempt to fuse all forms of visual imagery with architecture and architectural concepts. It also poses the question – an immensely important one – of whether the essential act of contemplation of a work is at all possible outside that graduated experience… / What is envisaged is people working outside the context of highly structured institutions but – this is essential – possessing the identity of the one to which they belong, engaged in work involving interested specialists in other fields and thus breaking down the mutually destructive isolation and exclusivity now common to both. … This would go some way to re-define the role of experimentation.”
– Peter de Francia: ‘Mandarins and Luddites’, Royal College of Art Inaugral Lectures, 1973

LINK: https://davidpattenwork.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/peter-de-francia-1973.pdf

LINK: https://davidpattenwork.com/7-197273747881/

2010 Drawing (Duomo)

2010 Drawing (Brunelleschi)

1978 Royal College of Art Travel Bursary / Paris (Leger)

PDF: 1987 Paris Lecture

1981–1986 art link & Interlink (Poland & Mexico)

1983 Ikon Gallery ‘Artist in Schools’ and related…

PDF: 1983 Linocut

1985 Stephen Cooper | A Year in Painting (text)

PDF: 1985 Stephen Cooper | Ikon Gallery (text)

1985 Exhibition & 1986 Residency, Westhill College, Birmingham

1985 Porth-y-Rhaw, St Davids | Drawings

PDF: 1986 Porth-y-Rhaw, St Davids | Drawing

1986 BBC2 General Studies Art and Upheaval: Art and Society
What use is art? How far should artists concern themselves with the social issues of their times? And if they do so, how effective is art as a means of moulding opinion? 12.40pm Monday 13 October 1986 (filmed in 1985)

1986 National Garden Festival, Stoke on Trent (unrealised hoardings)

PDF: 1984 Drawing

1987-1996 Teaching FT & PT (with breaks)

PDF: 1987-1996 Teaching FT & PT

1987 Drawings

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1990 ‘Monument to John Baskerville’, Birmingham

“Centenary Square in Birmingham has welcomed back its first piece of public art – an iconic sculpture, created to celebrate the work of the famous 18th century printer John Baskerville.”

PDF: Baskerville | The Poem (A Fable), 2013

LINK (BCC): ‘Iconic sculpture returned to Centenary Square’

PDF: 1990 Baskerville Drawings & Installation

PDF: Mel Gooding | PUBLIC – ART – SPACE, 1997

PDF: 2000 The City of B

PDF: Raymond Mason’s Hands, 2011

2013 Paradise Circus, Birmingham | Architects’ Journal & Argent Design Charrette

PDF: 2013 Paradise Forum

2017 The Baskerville Society

PDF: Industry & Genius Baskerville Newsletter

PDF: 14.09.2020 Birmingham Building Stone Trails

1991 (& on-going) ‘[small] Monuments’

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1989 ‘Cader Idris and the City of a Thousand Trades’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

ergo: “Are finely wrought, and by the Artists sold, / Whose touch turns every Metal into Gold”

“It’s as though the artist is literally trying to deconstruct the avant garde tradition in which he was trained to find a point of contact with popular history.” – Terry Grimley

PDF: 1989 Studio | Cader Idris

Image: Diana Phillips 29 November 2008
Central Lending Library Public Art: 1989, David Patten, Cader Idris – Horizon Line

PDF: 2015 Ally Standing | Cader Idris Notes

PDF: 2016 Ally Standing ‘Unpacking Cader Idris’

PDF: Ikon Gallery | Colour View 1989

PDF: Cader Idris | IKON Catalogue

PDF: Cader Idris | Poster 1989

PDF: Cader Idris | Exhibition Guide

PDF: Cader Idris | IKON Press Release

PDF: 100 Birmingham Sketchbooks (1987)

PDF: Léger’s ‘The Grand Parade’

PDF: AJ | Cader Idris 1989

PDF: 1998 Noszlopy | Birmingham

1985-1987 City of a Thousand Trades, Bell Street Passage (Public Art Collective)

PDF: Birmingham 1988

PDF: 1985 ‘1000 Hammers’ Bell Street Passage

PDF: Bell Street Passage | ©Luke Unsworth

LINK: West Midlands Public Art Collective

PDF: 1990 Jane Kelly’s Black Paintings

PDF: Will Alsop’s Hands 2006

1990 Drawing

1990 4 Prints

1990 Sketchbook (David Cox)

1992-1994 ‘Paper & Canvas’

1991 ‘Screenprinted Hand-Made Papers’

Ad Reinhardt 1990–2020

PDF: ‘Dead Artists…’ Artists Newsletter, October 1990

PDF: Reinhardt | Monotonous & Ugly Spaces

PDF: Ad Reinhardt | 27.06.2020 (RESTRICTED TEXT)

Reverse-engineered texts:

LINK: AD REINHARDT: [ONENESS] 2013/2014

LINK: AD REINHARDT: [ONE] 2014

LINK: AD REINHARDT: [IMAGELESS ICONS] 2014

PDF: Georgetown University Library Special Collections (RESTRICTED TEXT)

PDF: Ad Reinhardt | Repetition 2015

PDF: Ad Reinhardt | Prophetic Voices 2016

PDF: Ad Reinhardt | WORLD? v7 Summary Refs 2017

PDF: Ad Reinhardt | To Be Part Of Things… 2020

1991 Sketchbook

PDF: 1991 Sketchbook

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1992–1994 Sheffield Hallam University – Co-Lead Artist (with Jane Kelly)

PDF: 1992 Art in Public

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1992–1994 Cardiff Bay Tyndall Street Design Team – Co-Lead Artist with Jane Kelly

1993–1994 Cardiff Bay Bute Square and Avenue Design Team – Co-Lead artist with Jane Kelly and Jack Mackie, with MBM Architects (Barcelona)

PDF: Cardiff Bay | Artists Approach 1993

PDF: David Crawford | Bute Avenue

PDF: Cardiff | Jonathan Toon, 2012

1996–2000 c/PLEX

13. C/PLEX VIEW…INERTIA / 14. PIER…175M LONG…LINK TO TOWN CENTRE AND THEN BUSTING THROUGH THE ARCHITECTURAL SCHEME…ESSENTIALLY A THREAT. BUDGET AVAILABLE TO DO THAT – ALL THE PUBLIC ART IN ONE PLACE, NO MERGING WITH OR MODIFICATION BY ARCHITECTURE. NEW SCHEME MATCHING THE PIER…LONDON ON THURSDAY.

PDF: 04.02.1997 SHU Talk | c/PIER

PDF: 10 Thoughts on the Tower of Cultural Democracy

PDF: 1993 Gillian Rose | Tower of Babel

PDF: Jubilee Archive | In Search of Cultural Democracy

PDF: c/PLEX Diagrams

PDF: c/PLEX Review January 1998

2000 Public Art Journal Vol 1 #3 2000 (Art & Social Exclusion)

PDF: 2000 Venice Biennale of Architecture

PDF: 2000 Venice Biennale c/PLEX Fly Thru

PDF: 1980s_DP07.06.2012

PDF: c/PLEX & Cultural Democracy

PDF: Will Alsop | c/PLEX

PDF: Will Alsop 30.05.2000

2001–2002 Town Square West Bromwich, sub–consultant to Alsop Architects

PDF: 2001 Town Square DP

PDF: 2002 Alsop c/SQUARE

PDF: 2004 THEpUBLIC Project Description

2004 Town Square West Bromwich, Lovejoy Birmingham

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PDF: Braque’s Hands 2006 & 2008

PDF: Braque 1962 Sunday Times

2000–2003 Project q290, Atherstone (with Dana Freiburger, Wisconsin-Madison)

PDF: 2000-2003 Project q290 Atherstone

PDF: 2000–2003 Project q290 dwgs

2001–2004 Electric Wharf, Coventry (BPN Architects)

Lead artist to Complex Development Projects and architects Bryant Priest Newman for the design development of a former power station as live/work accommodation and 400 metre canal frontage.

RICS Awards Winner 2007, RegenWM ‘Vison for Placemaking’ Winner 2007 and ‘Outstanding Place of the Decade’ Award 2010.

PDF: 2001–2004 | Electric Wharf, Coventry

PPT: , as always (EW) PowerPoint download

PDF: 2003 EW Comment

PDF: Electric Wharf | Sense of Place 2007

PDF: BPN Icknield Text

2001-2002 SciMus, Birmingham with PCPT, Bryant Priest Newman, and Glenn Howells Architects

2001-2005 pro/POSIT (with Maurice Maguire)

PDF: 2013 Leamington Spa South Town Bridge

2002–2003 Audientia

PDF: 2002–2003 Audientia

2003 Irish Centre, Birmingham (pro/POSIT), with architects Bryant Priest Newman

2003–2007 Hinckley Building:Building Hinckley (pro/POSIT with BPN Architects)

PDF: 2004–2005 Hinckley Building-Building Hinckley (pro/POSIT)

PDF: 2004–2007 Hinckley Building

PDF: 2003–2005 Atkins Factory | Images

PDF: Draft Atkins Report | less costs

PDF: Goddard Study BPN | less costs

PDF: 2008 Atkins Building | Planning Text

PDF: Atkins Hosiery Factory, Hinckley

2012 FarGO Creative Village, Coventry, scheme concept (BPN Architects) not realised

FarGO Canopy: Spoking patterns may be radial or semi-tangential. For a normal wheel size and spoke count, semi-tangential ‘lacing’ is used to transmit torque from the hub to the rim. The most common spoking pattern is ‘three-cross’ lacing, where each spoke crosses three others on the same flange of the hub before meeting the rim. The last cross is normally ‘interlaced’ by wrapping the spoke around the one from the other side of the flange.

PDF: FarGO & Culture of Coventry

PDF: FarGO#1_05.10.2012B

PDF: Coventry Inscribed Columns 2017

PDF: 1979–1980 Post-War Public Art in Coventry

PDF: 2019 Lethaby Diagram

2011-2013 Meshwork Worcester

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2013 Town and Country Planning Association: Improving Culture, Arts and Sporting Opportunities through Planning. A Good Practice Guide

PDF: TCPA Guide 2013

2004 Collaboration

PDF: Public Art Online Resources – Collaboration – An Artist’s Perspective

PDF: Gillian Nicol | Playing Up, 2007

PDF: 2010 Collaboration

2004 ixia ‘Desirable Places’ (image)

1993 West Midlands Arts International Travel Bursary to USA to study current public art policies and practices (New York, Baltimore, Washington, Minneapolis/St Paul) – subsequent 1994 showing of Siah Armajani at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.

PDF: New York Sketchbook

PDF: Armajani | Ikon 1994

2009 Red Teapot Day, Herbert M&AG, Coventry

PDF: 2009 Red Teapot Day, Coventry

PDF: 2009 Lemon Drawing

PDF: 2009 Lemon Text

2009 Network Rail National Centre, Milton Keynes (Capita Lovejoy & Rob Colbourne)

PDF: 2007–2009 | MK & Springfield

PDF: 2008 Fairfield Public Art

2008-2015 Golden Square, Birmingham (BPN Architects & Capita Lovejoy)

PDF: Golden Square, Birmingham

PDF: Golden Square_II A1 boards_small

PDF: Golden Square Exhibition Boards

PDF: Golden Square Texts

PDF: Golden Square | Joe Holyoak 18.05.2015

Fonts In Use: Poem at Golden Square, Birmingham

Link: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/29708/poem-at-golden-square-birmingham

2010–2011 The Quick & The Dead

PDF: ‘The Quick and The Dead’

PDF: The Quick

PDF: The Dead

PDF: The In-Between

PDF: 2010 Q&D | Field of Potential

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RIOT Stone, on-going

PDF: [small monument] Riot Stone, 2006

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‘Everything I know…’ (kenosis)

PDF: 2006 Small Painting | Kenosis

PDF: 2006 UCE | Public Art is…

PDF: 2007 UCE | Public Art Introduction

PDF: 2007 An Ordinary Thing…

PDF: Babel Texts 2006–2007

PDF: Drawing Notes 12th January 2007

PDF: 2007 “…artists grow weary”

2004–2006 Stourport Canal Basins Masterplan (pro/POSIT)

Collaboration with British Waterways on masterplanning of Brindley’s historic canal basins leading to design implementation and parallel commissioning programme. Heritage Lottery funded with additional funding support from Arts Council England-West Midlands, Wyre Forest District Council, and Arts & Business. Shortlisted for BURA Waterways Renaissance ‘Strategy & Master Planning’ Award 2006.

PDF: Stourport Sketchbook 2004–2005

PDF: 2004 Stourport Principles #3

PDF: 2004 Stourport Geometries

PDF: 2005 Stourport Swing Bridge | (Armajani)

PDF: David Shrigley | John Fennyhouse Green Quote

[“The text is the label, and the painting is all of the landscape ‘above’ it.”]

PDF: 2006 JFG at Lower Mitton 1768

PDF: ‘[a small] MONUMENT to John Fennyhouse Green’

2009 ‘Overlooking the Visual’ (Images)

Kathryn Moore : ‘Overlooking the Visual: Demystifying the Art of Design’, Taylor & Francis 2009, Routledge 2010.

PDF: Kathryn Moore, 2010

PDF: 2007–2012 Lovejoy:Capita Lovejoy

2007 Castle College Maid Marian Way Campus, Nottingham, with Lovejoy Birmingham and Kathryn Moore

PDF: 2007 Castle College Nottingham

2008 Rally Park, Leicester, with Capita Lovejoy and Kathryn Moore

PDF: 2008 Rally Park, Leicester

PDF: Rally Park | report extract [small]

2008 Holy Bones, Leicester, with Capita Lovejoy

PDF: 2008 Holy Bones | Draft Text

PDF: 2009 Tettenhall Dwg #1

PDF: 2010 Bilston Briefing #3

PDF: 2010 SWBA | Type 1 Art

PDF: 2011–2012 Gravesend | Define

2012 Snow Hill Gateway, Birmingham (Define)

PDF: Snow Hill Red #3

PDF: Snow Hill Stories #6

PDF: A Fable’s Thin Disguise

PDF: enough | Brummagem

PDF: 2000 Birmingham Welcomes the World

PDF: 2001 Birmingham Public Art Framework (unadopted)

PDF: 2001 Birmingham City Council Public Art | Process

PDF: “…anything like this…”

PDF: 2020 artist | place & time

2008-2010 Big City Planners

PDF: 2018 Berlin | Apollinaire ‘Calligrammes’ 1918

PDF: 2008–2010 Big City Planners

PDF: 2008 Beorma Artists

PDF: 2008 BCU Art–Landscape–Place

2005-2011 Fragile Architecture

PDF: 2005–2011 Fragile Architecture

2004–2005 Culture & Regeneration Study, Corby BC (as pro/POSIT)

Approaches, action plan and funding profile informed by the local, sub-regional and regional contexts, plus design principles for three ‘gateway’ roundabouts.

2006–2008 Stourport Canal Basins Detailed Design

Collaboration with British Waterways, Andrew Davis Partnership and others on detailed design for landscape works to historic canal basins site. BURA Waterways Renaissance ‘Historic Environment’ Award 2008 and ‘Outstanding Achievement’ Award 2008. Winner of ‘Best Heritage Project’, National Lottery Awards 2009.