Originally posted on 5 November 2012 #LMGBlogArchive #LMGBlogArchiveProject
The finalists for Connect10 have been selected and voting is now open! There 9 museums in London competing for 5 different artists.
The venues competing for each artist are (to vote for your local or favourite London museum click on the artists’ name below):
Jake and Dinos Chapman: Barts Pathology Museum in London; Cheltenham Art Gallery; Jerwood Gallery, Hastings and the Museum of London.
Mat Collishaw: BACKLIT in Nottingham; Liverpool Anglican Cathedral; Lanhydrock House in Cornwall and Northern Print in Newcastle.
Martin Creed: the Freud Museum and the Ragged School Museum, both in London.
Cullinan Richards: the Museum of Brands & Packaging in London; Olney’s Cowper and Newton Museum; QUAD in Derby and the 20-21 Visual Arts Centre in Scunthorpe.
Susan Forsyth: Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield; Rochdale Pioneers Museum & Touchstones Rochdale; Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool and Yorkshire Sculpture Park
rAndom International: the Horniman Museum; 19th century London ship the SS Robin; Derry’s Void Gallery and London’s Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.
Gavin Turk: the Foundling Museum in London; Time Machine Funtington in Chichester; Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and Bath’s Holburne Museum.
Julia Vogl: The Rotunda Museum in Scarborough; Gloucester City Museum and Gallery; Newcastle’s Discovery Museum and Bristol’s Arnos Vale Cemetery.
Richard Wentworth: Gloucester Folk Museum; Shandy Hall in York; Dragon Hall in Norwich or a multi-venue night in the north-west featuring Manchester Museum, Manchester Art Gallery and the Whitworth Art Gallery.
Julian Wild: the Ironbridge Gorge Museum in Telford; the Old Assembly House in Newcastle; Gladstone Pottery Museum in Stoke and Corinium Museum in Cirencester.