| Type: | Exhibition space | | Address 1: | 67 Greenland Street | | Town/City: | Liverpool | | Post Code: | L1 OBY | | Country: | UK | | Web Site: | www.afoundation.com/greenlandstreet/index.php | | Description: | In 2006 A Foundation launched
Greenland Street, an arts centre located
in the Old Port area of Liverpool.
This comprises three former industrial
buildings: The Coach Shed, The Furnace
and The Blade Factory, which together
offer 2500sqm of exhibition space. The
Foundation has created a welcoming
arts centre, which includes a café and
bookshop specialising in artists’ books.
Greenland Street’s activities focus on an
annual programme of major new
commissions by artists who are offered
a significant level of practical,
financial,
administrative and curatorial support to
realise ambitious and risk-taking new
works.
The inaugural Greenland Street
commissions in 2006 included Sleep of
Ulro by Goshka Macuga, Silent Sound
by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard,
Virtually Grizedale by Grizedale Arts and
a new architectural commission by
Office of Subversive Architecture. | | Description Source: | online statement - www.afoundation.com | | Description Source Date: | accessed October 2007 |
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