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More art for the Heath

FIRST there was the Writer – a mammoth art installation on Hampstead Heath involving a 30ft table and chair conceived by a maverick Italian artist as a “monument to the loneliness of writing”.
Now the success of that project on the slopes of Parliament Hill Fields over the summer has led Heath bosses to consider similar public art projects for the future.
Heath guardians, the Corporation of London, have revealed that the Rollo Contemporary Art Gallery in Islington which organised the Writer project has put forward a proposal to run a summer arts programme.
Details of the future installations are yet to be confirmed but, according to a report going before the Heath consultative committee on Monday, the gallery would source the artists for locations agreed in advance aiming to “encourage as much local participation as possible and involve schools and colleges in London”.
The costs for the art installations are likely to be carried by the gallery rather than the Corporation of London – on a similar basis to the Writer project.
Any artwork on the Heath will need to find approval from both the Heath’s consultative committee and its management committee – whose members seem determined to keep an open mind.
Michael Hammerson on the Heath consultative committee said: “I think the decision to give the Writer the go-ahead was the right one but what is important is that it was in exactly the right spot.”



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