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Nathan Coley is a publication documenting a public art project in
London by Glasgow-based contemporary artist Nathan Coley (b.1967).
At a time when housing and the property market are at the centre of
much social, political and economic debate, Coley's project is a
pertinent and thought-provoking exploration of issues of housing,
ownership, history and activism. In the mid-late 1960s, the Greater
London Council moved local authority tenants out of their run-down
terraced houses in the Freston Road area of the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea and into newly built blocks of flats nearby.
The council was planning to knock down the terraced houses and to
regenerate the area, but the plans were beset by delays so the
houses lay derelict for almost a decade. During the 1970s a group
of squatters began moving into the old houses - there were around
150 people living in 35 houses at one point towards the end of the
decade. In late summer 2015, on the site where Frestonia once
stood, the first phase of apartments designed byHaworth Tompkins
Architects and built by the charitable organisation The Peabody
Trust was completed. With one third of the properties for sale, one
third for rent, and one third under the management of the Housing
Association, the complex, called The Silchester (More West)
development, consists of 112 apartments. Nathan Coley was
commissioned to make new artwork for the site. Based on the form of
an apple tree - inspired by the history of the Bramley apple that
gave its name to the Frestonia residents - Coley has not only made
a striking steel and gold leaf rooftop sculpture, but also 112
small versions of the same sculpture that have been given to each
of the residents as a house warming present. In doing so, Coley not
only connects the new housing complex and its residents with its
local history, but to wider discourses of modernism and sculpture,
art and society, capitalism and alternative modes of living. The
publication, which forms part of the artist's commissioned project,
presents a variety of texts, images and documentation relating to
the new housing development, to the history of the Bramley apple
and to Frestonia - including a selection of archive photographs of
Frestonia taken by former resident Tony Sleep.
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Imprint: |
Anomie Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
July 2015 |
Authors: |
Nathan Coley
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Dimensions: |
210 x 148 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
190 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-910221-05-1 |
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LSN: |
1-910221-05-8 |
Barcode: |
9781910221051 |
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