Beautify the City
Artist. Lucy McLauchlan
Client. EC-Arts
Birds ‘perch’ on the Brutalist-style Birmingham Central Library – a huge inverted concrete ziggurat built in 1974, designed by Architect John Madin.
Project implemented and produced by Claire Farrell of EC-Arts in collaboration with and supported in kind by The Central Library and Birmingham City Council; with many thanks to Brian Gambles, Nigel Edmondson and Sue Round and her team.
Artist Lucy McLauchlan is from Birmingham and works all over the world exhibiting her work in galleries and the public realm. Lucy has recently been published in ‘Beyond the Street – the 100 leading figures in Urban Art”. Lucy had not, to date been commissioned to produce any work for such a high profile location within Birmingham. It was Lucy’s wish to produce one of her infamous murals in Birmingham to simply ‘beautify the city’. This coupled with EC-Arts motivation to commission artistic interventions, temporary and permanent within the public realm, utilising architecture where possible was the foundation for the Library project.
This project is one of a series of public realm interventions planned by EC-Arts for the city of Birmingham. In the very near future EC-Arts will work with Lucy again and other Birmingham artists to bring art into the urban landscape.
Sponsors. Central Signs. EC-Arts. Birmingham City Council.
