Dalziel + Scullion Breath Taking
Photographic Billboard Project - Nationwide May 2005
Dalziel + Scullion were commissioned by Deveron Arts Fellowship Projects to make an artistic response to the debate surrounding the planning proposals for over 200 new wind turbine sites in rural Britain. The artists devoted the Fellowship to extending their investigations into the complex relationship between mankind and the natural world.
Taking as a starting point the current debate surrounding planning proposals for wind farms, the artists invite us to contemplate the shifting environment and increasing urbanisation of the population and consider the impact, both social and cultural, of these developments.
The project encompassed the placement of 11 bill board sites across the UK, a publication and a conference on the topic of Energy, Landscape, Wilderness and Growth.
Billboard Sites: Aberdeen: Market Street | Birmingham: Fazeley Street | The Cabrach: The Gouls | Dundee: East Dock Street | Edinburgh: Waverley Station | Glasgow: Glasgow Central Station | Liverpool: Hanover Street | London - Bethnal Green Rd and Blackfriars Rd | Manchester: Fairfield Street | Newcastle: Gallowgate Car Park | Pitcaple, A96
Supported by: Scottish Arts Council, Arts Council for England, Sigrid Rausing, Innovation in Architecture Fund/The Lighthouse