Vong Phaophanit & Claire Oboussier

Based in London, Turner Prize Nominee (1993), Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier have worked together for over 20 years. Their collaborative work encompasses, films, books, large- scale installations and sculptural works. They have created a number of large-scale groundbreaking public commissions. Recent works in the public realm include ‘Outhouse’ 2004, a sculptural glass ‘abode’ for the collective use of local residents, sited within a public park for Liverpool Housing Action Trust and ‘Topography of Dreams’ 2007, a temporary public installation which ‘inhabited’ the Grade 1 listed, disused Curzon St. rail station in central Birmingham. Commissioned by Birmingham Arts Festival, the work gathered together the hand-written ‘dream destinations’ of a cross-section of local residents which were scaled up reproduced exactly in neon. Phaophanit and Oboussier are currently working on major public commissions for the Channel 4 Big Art Project (N. Belfast) and the Foyle Public Art Project in Derry. In addition to work within the public realm, they have exhibited their work individually at venues such as Tate Britain, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, IMMA, Dublin, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, the Shanghai Biennale, and the Void Gallery, Derry/Londonderry.

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InSite Arts projects

Cabot Circus, Bristol

Artists: Neville Gabie, Nayan Kulkarni, Susanna Heron, Timorous Beasties, Vong Phaophanit & Claire Oboussier, Esther Rolinson, Ralph Hoyte, Claire Morgan, Blackout Arts

At the heart of Cabot Circus is an ambitious and innovative series of site-specific public art works, the result of one of the largest and most diverse public art programmes of its kind in Europe.

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Sparks - Make It Real (2005-2006)

Artists: Vong Phaophanit & Claire Oboussier, Claire Morgan, Heinrich & Palmer

Sarah Collicott curated and managed 3 light-based, new media commissions in Herne Bay, Whitstable and Canterbury. Other artists shortlisted included London Fields, Jane Prophet, Robin Blackledge, Andrew Stonyer, Jim Hamlyn and Jim Buckley, and Greyworld. Publication Available.

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Images

All the world is two - Cabot Circus, Bristol (Bristol Alliance)

Bay Windows - Sparks - Make It Real (Canterbury City Council)

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