Royal Pump Rooms Redevelopment - Art Commissions
The Royal Pump Rooms redevelopment project of 1997 – 99 incorporated a number of site specific art commissions reflecting the building's history and new use. Works commissioned were:
Celia Kilner produced a spa water drinking fountain for outside the building.
Celia Kilner's drinking fountain by the river Leam. Here visitors are able to take the saline waters
Angus Ross created a reception desk, seating and the furniture for the Art Gallery & Museum, echoing the gallery's former use as a swimming pool.
David Jacobson created a unique water feature for the entrance concourse.
Martin Smith produced automata for the Museum - a model horse-powered water pump downstairs in the Museum; and model circus scene upstairs on the Mezzanine gallery.
Keith Newstead made an automata donations box.
Keith Newstead's automata donations box ‘Rejuvenation’
Matt Smith created two automata for the medical room in the Museum - ‘mens sana in corpore sano’ and ‘learn to swim’.
Royal Pump Rooms - Commissions Since 1999
More recently, in 2006, designers Natalie Cole and Wayne Pottinger were commissioned to design and produce an Art Cart - a mobile unit to contain art materials used for workshops and events.
Natalie Cole and Wayne Pottinger's Art Cart
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