Art and architecture meet - Turning the Place Over

We recently visited MA Architecture students at Queen’s with our Creative Commissions artist Zuza Golińska, who spent a week in Belfast researching her project. Zuza gave a presentation about her research and work exploring the relationship between public art and architecture and where these two disciplines collide. A conversation between Zuza and the students about these topics, aesthetics and/or vs function, their thoughts and ideas, and any questions they had, followed.

One of the artworks mentioned was Turning the Place Over, a sculpture by Richard Wilson commissioned for Liverpool Year of Culture in 2008 (pictured). The work consisted of a vast 10 metre diameter ovoid section of the facade of a disused building in Liverpool. This section of facade had been cut free allowing it to rotate. More info can be found on the artist’s website.