Tomorrow (November 17) art fans will have a rare opportunity to hear artist and Turner Prize winner Richard Deacon In Conversation at MK Gallery.
The Gallery is working with Deacon on an ambitious public art project, to be installed on a roundabout in Milton Keynes in 2017.
During this In Conversation event, Deacon will present an illustrated talk about his practice and share his proposed design for the sculpture. The commission forms part of MK Gallery’s contribution to MK50, the celebrations to mark the city’s 50th anniversary.
The idea comes from an unrealised MK Development Corporation proposal in the 1970s to install a sculpture on every roundabout in Milton Keynes, providing landmarks across the city.
Deacon has a longstanding association with Milton Keynes, having collaborated with Bletchley-based firms, Kemco Fabrications Ltd and Twin Engineering Ltd, for much of his steel fabrication work.
Works have been exported from Bletchley around the world, including Japan, New Zealand, Canada and Europe. Working in wide-ranging media, Deacon selects ‘materials, processes and methods that are needed to create something, without knowing what the result will be…. arriving at sculptures unlike anything made by anyone else.’
His career dates back to the late 1970s and was recently celebrated in the 2014 Tate Britain survey exhibition. The sculpture is planned to be installed on Fox Milne roundabout.
The free In Conversation event begins at 7pm and spaces are limited. Pre-booking is essential at www.mkgallery.org
