Neon artist Richard William Wheater helps Radio Four’s John Wilson make a neon for the first Front Row artwork. Wheater talks us through the process of making neon artwork at Neon Workshops in Wakefield, the only place in the country you can learn how to make neons. They are accompanied by graphic designer Peter Saville and the Junior Royal Northern College Brass Quintet and the BBC North Staff Choir to switch on the artwork.
Wheater’s unique neon installation I’m Electric, You’re Electric is currently at Other Criteria’s Hinde Street shop. To view the work online, click here.
Listen to this episode of Front Row on BBC iPlayer here. If you want to go straight to this section of Front Row, skip forward to the time 17.33.
BBC Radio Four John Wilson creates a neon sign ‘Listen’ for the first Front Row artwork with help from neon artist Richard William Wheater
Tracey Emin is at the ICA for this special lunch time talk with ICA Director Gregor Muir to discuss her recent collaboration with Louise Bourgeois, future projects and the changing shape and new directions of culture in the 21st century.
Please call the ICA box office on 020 7930 3647 to book tickets.
In association with Modern Art Oxford and to celebrate the launch ofAdventures in Art: Selected Writings 1990-2010 by Sue Hubbard, the author chaired a panel discussion with artists Susan Hiller and George Shaw to discuss art at the end of the first decade of the 21st century.
To download an mp3 file of the conversation, click here.
