| 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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