View Tube Art: Sparked 2011-12
Inspired by the public art pieces in the London 2012 Olympic Park, Sparked is an eight-month educational exhibition series as part of the View Tube Art Education programme, from October 2011-May 2012.
The View Tube sits on The Greenway in East London, next to the London 2012 Olympic Park, it is a community arts and education venue, with a cafe and bike hire.
Sparked is funded by The Legacy List, a new charity established to support the long term cultural, social and physical regeneration of London’s future Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and its surroundings.
Sparked is supported by Bow Arts
A selection of photos from our Family Day in February as part of the Sparked with Neville Gabie exhibition. Working with The Prince’s Drawing School, participants were asked to draw a portrait of the Olympic Park in 3 minutes 26 seconds, the world record for 1500 metres. These are currently being made into a short animation incorporating everyone’s drawings, offering a unique record of the Olympic Park, which will be uploaded shortly.
Please note, the family day as part of the Neville Gabie Sparked exhibition will now take place on Saturday 18th February at View Tube.
Stay tuned to learn more about the free activities taking place on the day and how you can get involved.
Vincent (6) & Alfred (8) making seed cards at View Tube’s Sparked Family Day
We saw over 50 people through our art workshop sessions with Olympic artists Riitta Ikonen and Tomas Klassnik. We’ll post up more photos soon, but a massive thanks to everyone who came down, the volunteers that helped out, the stall holders at the Christmas Market and Museum of London Docklands, who bought some fascinating artefacts with them found at the park.
Don’t forget, you can still get involved with the exhibition by downloading an activity sheet before you visit View Tube!
Inspired by the public art pieces in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Park, Sparked is an eight-month educational exhibition series as part of the View Tube Art Education programme, running from October 2011-May 2012, and aims to engage the public with the public art pieces commissioned for Olympic park.
Over the next eight months, three 6-8 week exhibitions will take place, inspired by various art pieces in the Olympic Park. Running alongside these, will be educational activities for any young person visiting the View Tube, as well as family days teaching new art skills inspired by the exhibitions focus.
The View Tube is a social enterprise and community venue located in East London onThe Greenway adjacent to the London 2012 Olympic Park. Open all year round, 7 days a week from 9am-5pm, it offers incredible views of the park to the general public, and also houses a cafe, education, arts, community garden, information spaces and bike hire.
It was built using recycled shipping containers whose construction and installation was delivered by Urban Space Management. The View Tube is a partnership project between Leaside Regeneration, London Thames Gateway Development Corporation, the Olympic Delivery Authority and Thames Water.
The View Tube Art programme attracts local, national and international artists to express their reactions to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and has exhibited works from such artists and organisations as Gavin Turk/Ben Wilson, The National Portrait Gallery, Faisal Abdu’Allah and Lisa Cheung.
Sparked is funded by The Legacy List, a new charity established to support the long term cultural, social and physical regeneration of London’s future Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and its surroundings.
