{"id":154689,"date":"2025-10-31T05:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/154689\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T05:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T05:23:11","slug":"turner-winner-jasleen-kaur-announces-first-permanent-public-work-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/154689\/","title":{"rendered":"Turner winner Jasleen Kaur announces first permanent public work – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turner prize winner Jasleen Kaur<\/a> has announced plans to unveil an ambitious new sculpture in the town of Thamesmead in south east London next month (28 November). The work Was.Is.Will.Be, Kaur\u2019s first permanent public art piece, will be sited at Southmere Lake in Cygnet Square.<\/p>\n

Kaur\u2019s piece is funded by the non-profit housing association Peabody, which is responsible for redeveloping and regenerating Thamesmead. Five residents of Thamesmead\u2014including the filmmaker Comfort Adeneye and the painter Gonzalo Fuentes\u2014form part of a new creative studio which helped select the work.\u00a0Other project partners include the creative agency Studio Danmole, the public art consultancy known as Company, Place and the youth culture specialist Joseph Gray.<\/p>\n

Writing on the Thamesmead website Kaur says: \u201cI love that they, as residents and artists in their own right, have a stake or claim to a public artwork being planned for their area as it goes through an immense period of change.\u201d <\/p>\n

A project statement adds that Kaur\u2019s works comprises \u201cfragments of local conversation permanently embedded into the landscape, leading the eye to the words \u2018horses are here\u2019 written high in the sky\u201d.<\/p>\n

Other works commissioned for Thamesmead as part of Peabody\u2019s cultural strategy include Bob and Roberta Smith\u2019s Thamesmead Codex\u00a0(2021), a work made of 24 placards detailing conversations by local residents. The artist duo Ackroyd & Harvey will also plant a circle of seven oak trees later this year at Crossway Park in Thamesmead as part of a project inspired by Joseph Beuys\u2019s key work 7000 Oaks\u00a0\u2013 City Forestation Instead of City Administration\u00a0(1982-87).<\/p>\n

Thamesmead was once known as \u201cthe town of the future\u201d. Built in the 1960s on reclaimed marshland, the large-scale housing project was meant to alleviate London\u2019s housing shortage. Blocks of low-rise housing in the Brutalist style sprung up, providing the backdrop for Stanley Kubrick\u2019s notorious 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.<\/p>\n

Kaur\u2019s upbringing as a Sikh in Glasgow, where her family ran hardware and cash and carry stores, forms the bedrock of her art. Her striking installation of a red Ford Escort draped with an enormous cotton doily, blasting out a mash-up of pop, hip-hop and qawwali devotional music from its sound system, was shown in the Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain last year. She called for a ceasefire in Gaza at the prize ceremony, voicing her support for demonstrators who had gathered outside the institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turner prize winner Jasleen Kaur has announced plans to unveil an ambitious new sculpture in the town of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17,90418,11480,90417],"class_list":{"0":"post-154689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-jasleen-kaur","18":"tag-public-art","19":"tag-turner-prize"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115467111847302944","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}