Projects by Artist

John Adams Intellectual Properties, 1986

This six-part fiction is an ironic, stylized discourse on representation, reproduction, production and reality. Formally structured on the concept that sound qualifies image, each segment uses a different anecdotal soundtrack to recontextualize recurring visual material, until the narratives converge in the final sequence.

John Adams Bob and Jill (pt. 2), 1982

In Bob and Jill (Pt. 2), the relation between fact and fiction in the personal and popular narratives of everyday life is rendered in an assemblage of soap opera conventions, performance and documentary

John Adams Sensible Shoes, 1983

Sensible Shoes is a witty collision of fiction and reality, ironically rendered as a multi-textual pastiche of mass media and personal narratives.

John Adams Testing; One, Two, 1976

John Adams's first performance

Tanya Axford Babel's Folly, 2001

Babel's Folly crams a former department store space with thousands of rolls of domestic wallpaper pulled into teetering pillars.

Fiona Banner Tornado, 2010

Tornado by Fiona Banner was a co-commission by Locus+ and Great North Run Culture forming part of the Cultural Olympiad's Open Weekend.

Fiona Banner Print Portfolio, 2012

A Limited Edition print portfolio available in 2013

Christian Barnes A Bathymetric Atlas of The English Lake District, 2014

A Bathymetric Atlas of The English Lake District, is a unique hand-made book measuring 120 x 120 cm. Conceived and devised by Christian Barnes and commissioned by Locus+, it reveals the hidden contours of the principal lakes in the English Lake District at a scale of 1:41250

Oliver Beck Nail It, 2010

A commission for the 2010 Locus+ Christmas card.

Catherine Bertola Scratching the Surface, 2001

For the work Scratching the Surface Bertola engraved a traditional decorative pattern into the exterior wall of a once-domestic, now-commercial building.

Sonia Boyce For You Only You, 2008

Ian Breakwell Hidden Cities, 1995

Ian Breakwell Christmas Carol, 1991

A performance in which four synchronised figures dressed in Santa Claus costumes performed in Newcastle's Northumberland Street.

Chris Burden Ghost Ship, 2005

Ghost Ship involved the construction and development of a crewless, self-navigating sailing boat, which undertook its maiden voyage between Fair Isle, Scotland and Newcastle upon Tyne. Audiences were able to track the boats progress via a live, daily updated website.

Chris Burden The Sailing Destroyer, 1990

The Sailing Destroyer was an attempt by the artist to radically modify an existing, but obsolete warship into a sailing vessel.

Chris Burden Print Portfolio, 2012

A Limited Edition print portfolio available in 2013

Nathan Coley Show Home, 2003

Show Home is a temporary public art work that addresses the aspirations of home buying and associated lifestyle packages.

Jo Coupe Fruitbody, 2001

For the work Fruitbody, Coupe turned a warehouse into an incubating environment to reproduce graffiti tags (signatures) found in the city, from mould.

Shane Cullen Fragmens sur les Institutions Republicaines IV, 1996

The work consists of ninety-six large tablet like panels onto which the artist has transcribed meticulously in paint the contents of numerous 'Comms'; the written communications smuggled in and out of H-Blocks during the hunger strikes.

Layla Curtis NewcastleGateshead, 2005

NewcastleGateshead is a collaged map compiled from regional namesakes taken from city maps worldwide. In the form of a generic folded map, the collage mimics the existing, familiar structure of NewcastleGateshead.

Layla Curtis Polar Wandering, 2005

A web-based project that recorded the three-month journey the artist made to and from Antarctica.

Cathy de Monchaux The Day Before You Looked Through Me, 1998

The Day Before You Looked Through Me is de Monchaux's first permanent public artwork, incorporating the use of photography on a monumental scale.

Mark Dion Memorial to Thomas Bewick, 2007

A semi-permanent sculptural memorial to Thomas Bewick sited in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Mark Dion Print Portfolio, 2012

A Limited Edition print portfolio available in 2013

Cerith Wyn Evans Permit yourself..., 2011

Steve Farrer The Cinema of Machines, 1996

The Cinema of Machines, explored both the history of cinema and the artist's own history

Anya Gallaccio Repens, 2000

Repens was a temporary land-work using a decorative motif designed by Robert Adam for the ceiling of the Great Hall at Compton Verney

Anya Gallaccio Two Sisters, 1998

Two Sisters was a 6-metre high, 2.5-metre diameter and 70-ton column of chalk bonded by plaster installed on the silt bed of the Minerva Basin, Hull. The work was continually modified by the tidal flow of the River Humber until it finally eroded and collapsed.

Anya Gallaccio dreamed about the flowers that hide from the light, 2018

A new commission for Lindisfarne Castle delivered in partnership with the National Trust through Trust New Art supported using funding from Arts Council England and the Henry Moore Foundation.

Stefan Gec Natural History, 1995

Six large black and white photographic portraits of the first six firemen who died trying to contain the fire within the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl.

Stefan Gec Trace Elements, 1990

Trace Elements was part of TSWA Four Cities. It comprised eight large bells cast from decommissioned Soviet submarines installed at the base of the High Level Bridge.

Stefan Gec Buoy, 1996

A fully operational ocean-going buoy fabricated by recasting the steel from the artist's previous project Trace Elements (1990)

Ron Geesin Blackbird Quadralogue, 2014

Drawing together the calls of four Blackbirds as they move through one year, Blackbird Quadralogue, is a beautiful musical composition that interrogates notions of territories and belonging, and those of the individual vs the collective.

Lloyd Gibson Crash Subjectivity, 1993

Installation of a marmoreal hermaphrodite figure.

Lloyd Gibson n, 2000

Gruinard Island was used by the Ministry of Defence in World War II to experiment in biological warfare. Project n, a figurative sculpture constructed from Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) designed to distort and change at predetermined temperatures was installed on Gruinard.

Douglas Gordon The End of Civilisation, 2012

A grand piano burns in this epic film by Turner prize-winning Scottish artist Douglas Gordon.

Andrew Grassie The Locus+ office, 1999

Three paintings commissioned for a series of Locus+ Christmas cards. Tempera on paper, 14.2 x 19.7cm

Richard Grayson The Magpie Index, 2010

The Magpie Index is a single-screen high-definition video art-work by artist Richard Grayson, focusing on legendary singer-songwriter Roy Harper.

Richard Grayson Three Thousand Famous Men, 1980

Three Thousand Famous Men, by Richard Grayson was a work that was part of The Basement Group Showreel produced in 1983.

Richard Grayson Three Real Things, 1982

Three Real Things, a film by Richard Grayson was originally part of The Basement Group Showreel produced in 1983.

Gregory Green Gregnik (Proto 1), 1996

A fully functional communications satellite created to broadcast stories and anecdotes from the community in the Meadow Well estateTyne & Wear

Graham Gussin Illumination Rig, 2006

A site-specific installation using film-lights to illuminate urban non-spaces, in particular the locations where architectural styles clash

Mona Hatoum Look No Body!, 1981

Mona Hatoum Position: Suspended, 1986

A performance lasting the duration of a day in which Hatoum occupied a rudimentary wedge-shaped cage or shack

Mona Hatoum Alive and Well, 1990

An installation at the very end of the Victoria Tunnel, behind the barred gate. The piece was created from the heating elements of an electric fire which glowed in the dark.

Mona Hatoum Over My Dead Body, 1988

A series of commissioned poster works for advertising hoardings on the Tyne & Wear Metro and in Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Derry, London, Glasgow and Middlesbrough.

Cornelia Hesse-Honegger Nach Chernobyl, 1996

In 1986 Hesse-Honegger began to document the effects of the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine, making studies of insects affected by the radiation plume that spread across Europe.

Cornelia Hesse-Honegger Print Portfolio, 2012

A Limited Edition print portfolio available in 2013

Charlie Hooker Move In, 1981

Photoluminescent installation for choreographed percussion.

Charlie Hooker Mainbeam, 1983

Mainbeam - a ballet for vehicles - was a performance carried out at night in the Trinity Square Multi-storey car park in Gateshead.

Charlie Hooker Percussion Walk, 1979

Choreographed percussion performance and installation.

Stepanka Stein & Salim Issa Ordinary Living, 2005

Artist residency and collaboration with IPRN University of Sunderland

Janice Kerbel Underwood (Christmas letter), 2004

A letter composed by Janice Kerbel using a typeface based on that of a typewriter manipulated by the artist.

Janice Kerbel Deadstar, 2007

Deadstar is the plan for a "new" ghost town. Taking the form of a town plan, it uses the conventions of urban planning and the history of abandoned settlements, the orientation of extinct celestial formations and the habits of the supernatural to envisage a timeless settlement for ghosts.

John Kippin The Elsdon Mystery, 1983

A "thriller" movie which asks questions about the communicative possibilities of visual information.

John Kippin The Strawberry Portraits, 1986

A series of portraits of artists photographed by John Kippin upstairs at The Strawberry pub in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Pat Naldi & Wendy Kirkup Search, 1993

A project that highlighted the capabilities of the new CCTV systems and their impact on our personal freedom.

Wendy Kirkup Echo, 2000

Using advanced Siemens Panoramic Ultrasound equipment a journey through the artist's body was broadcast simultaneously via satellite at two locations.

Artist residency, exhibition and commission

Densen-Disperse, 2016

Ant Macari All about the Benjamins, 2006

A commission for the Locus+ Christmas card 2006

Alastair MacLennan The Touring Exhibitionists, 1984

The Touring Exhibitionists was the first project travelling solely under the Projects UK banner. A select group of performance artists toured the country in a coach playing a various venues.

Alastair MacLennan Twenty Four Hours, 1981

A performance in which the artist walked from midnight to midnight continuously in a circle through a square divided in two halves, one half black paint, the other white flour.

Alastair MacLennan Lie To Lay, 1986

A performance for part of New Work Newcastle '86

Alastair MacLennan Coil To Met, 2009

A two-day durational performance in an old disused warehouse as part of Wunderba Live Art Festival.

Daniel J. Martinez How To Con A Capitalist, 1995

Street performance, interrogating assumptions of public space and cultural hierarchy.

Bruce McLean Breaks on the Bridge, 1983

A performance featuring the Whickam Synchronettes - a local group of synchronised swimmers in the Elswick Swimming pool.

Bruce McLean Action at a Distance, 1980

A performance at the Basement, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Bruce McLean Good Violence and Physical Manners Pt.I and Pt.II, 1986

A two-day performance at the Laing Art Gallery employing telephones, radios and CB radios dealing with notions of interference and interruption.

Jonathan Monk A Small Glass Christmas Tree Ornament Placed Inside a Padded Envelope & Stamped on by Jonathan Monk, 2014

A Small Glass Christmas Tree Ornament Placed Inside a Padded Envelope & Stamped on by Jonathan Monk was a commissioned work for the Locus+ 2014 Christmas card.

Jonathan Monk A copy of Richard Hamilton, Whitley Bay, 1965, 2015

A year-long project involving the reproduction of Richard Hamilton's famous Whitley Bay, 1965 postcard, mailed each month from the postbox in Whitley Bay.

Alan Moore The Birth Caul, 1995

A performance monologue by comic book writer Alan Moore, in collaboration with composer David J (of pop group Bauhaus) and musician Tim Perkins.

Philip Napier Sovereign, 1995

A videotape and video installation produced during a residency by Belfast artist Philip Napier in Vancouver, Canada.

John Newling Skeleton, 1994

A temporary installation in which the residue of approximately 80,000 template sheets of communion bread (after the wafer had been punched out) were stacked at intervals on the church pews.

Nhan Duc Nguyen Temple of My Familiar, 1994

Temple of My Familiar was a installation of a large (32 metres) mural using Vietnamese and Buddhist iconography depicting details of the artist's life. This included the incident in which he temporarily lost his sight as a result of a racist attack.

Tatzu Nishi Hotel Monument, 2008

Toby Paterson Asymmetric Snowflake, 2007

Asymmetric Snowflake was a commissioned work for the Locus+ 2007 Christmas card.

Katie Paterson Second Moon, 2013

A fragment of the Moon, couriered around the earth for one year.

Simon Patterson Landskip, 2000

Simon Patterson, Landskip. 2000
Commissioned as part of the pre-opening season at Compton Verney.

Simon Patterson Escape Routine, 2002

Simon Patterson, Escape Routine. 2002
A commissioned film that focuses on the in-flight safety demonstrations enacted by flight attendants.

Gary Perkins Heat Signature, 2003

An interactive installation using heat and thermal imaging technology to recreate Winter Landscape (1811) by Caspar David Freidrich.

Sarah Pickering Celestial Objects, 2013

Celestial Objects, by Sarah Pickering, has been made by photographing a revolver fired in total darkness.

Jewyo Rhii Love Your Depot_LDN, 2020

Part of an ongoing project which awarded Rhii the 2019 Korea Artist Prize for her show at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, the exhibition at KCCUK has been reconstituted into a multi-purpose, multi-dimensional presentation that is particularly poignant in this current climate. Showcasing a combination of a physical storage space for artworks and a workspace for creative activities, Rhii also brings the show to the digital realm by creating an accompanying online platform.

Jan Wade & Vanessa Richards Jazz Slave Ships, Witness, I Burn, 1996

A site-specific performance installation in Whitehaven, Cumbria, the last English slaving port and Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, the birthplace of anti-slavery pioneer William Wilberforce

Monica Ross A Critical Fine Art Practice, 2017

An extensive exhibition from the archives of British artist Monica Ross (1950-2013)

Jonathan Schipper Slow Motion Car Crash, 2012

Paul St. George Minumental, 1998

Minumental scale version of Anthony Gormley's Angel of the North, launched to coincide with the opening of the actual Angel of the North.

Matt Stokes Sacred Selections, 2006

Natalie Jeremijenko & Eugene Thacker Creative Biotechnology: a user's manual, 2004

Publication and on-line work, documenting and discussing research and issues surrounding Biotech Hobbyism funded by the Wellcome Trust. Launched: 15.09.04 Artists Space, New York and 22.09.04 Henry Wellcome Building for Neuroecology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Suzanne Treister DIY Drone / Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV): 'ArduCopter 3DR Hexa', 2012

Watercolour on paper, 210 x 150 mm, 2012

Laura Vickerson Fairy Tales and Factories, 1999

Fairy Tales and Factories involved the construction and installation of a 3.5 metre wide hooded cape, with a 21-metre long train made from hundreds of thousands of red rose petals.

Mark Wallinger The Underworld, 2004

Mark Wallinger A Real Work of Art, 1994

An edition of 50 die-cast equestrian statuettes, sold to fund the purchase, stabling and training of a race horse named A Real Work of Art, which ran in the 1994 flat season.

Wolfgang Weileder Transfer Laban, 2016

Richard Wilson One Piece at a Time, 1987

Twelve hundred second-hand car parts were suspended by wires from a platform mounted in the South Tower of the Tyne Bridge. Over a period of five weeks a motorised cutting device cut approximately 40 wires a day, causing the car components to fall to the floor.

Richard Wilson The Joint's Jumping, 1996

A proposal for the Baltic Flour Mill in Gateshead prior to the opening of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.

Louise K. Wilson The Museum of Accidents, 1993

A performance installation which recreated a 1920's tea dance in the Great Hall of the Museum of Science and Engineering. As an Orchestra played, ballroom dancers swept past a screen which showed a continuous projection of the virtual flight and accident of a simulated plane.

Jane and Louise Wilson Blind Landings, 2013

Blind Landings (H-bomb Test Site, Orford Ness) #3
2013, Photo collage, 360 x 360mm, Variation of 4

Paul Wong Window '97, 1997

Shown from 29 to 31 May 1997 to coincide with the hand-over of Hong Kong from the UK to China, Windows '97 was an installation consisting of large backlit colour photographs of Quenn Elizabeth II and Chairman Mao bordered by flashing neon symbols; the Union Jack, red star, AK47, Money signs, a crown and the new Hong Kong logo.

Paul Wong Feng Shui, 1993

A performance installation in which artists installed objects and carried out rituals associated with the ancient Chinese practice of Feng Shui.

Elizabeth Wright Space Travel, 2005

A sequence of 115 images of the interior of car parks reproduced on large light-reflective panels viewable through the Metro carriage as it passes through the tunnel.

Richard Wright Print Portfolio, 2012

A Limited Edition print portfolio available in 2013

Lawrence Paul Yuxwelupton An Indian Shooting the Indian Act, 1997

A performance ritual enacted at the National Rifle Association Range, Bisley and on a private estate, Healey, Northumberland in which First-Nation-Canadian Yuxwelupton shot copies of the Indian Act.

Silvia Ziranek A Deliberate Case of Particulars, 1983

A performance in the Pizzaland restaurant Newcastle upon Tyne