Eden based Vista Projects have been working on a public art commission in Darlington (as well as other projects in the North West and Scotland).

as seen here the project is, in their words:
• a sequential exhibition of eight big round pictures on an employment site in Darlington called Lingfield Point which is visible from the A66.
• The pictures are about 14 metres in diameter (45ft).
• It is a creative collaboration between John Kennedy and Christian Barnes.
• The first picture ‘Sunflowers’ which we have made ourselves has been put up for the beginning of July. It will be followed with a new picture every three months for the next two years. We might make them or curate them. We are happy to have suggestions and ideas and to work with others.
• We are thinking about the project as a ‘rhetorical device’ and the content as being propagandist.
• When it’s over – it’s over.
• The images will be linked to themes of culture, economy, environment, agriculture and ecology.

If you have any feedback or want further information or want to get involved (see point 4 above) get in touch with Christian Barnes at christian@vistaprojects.co.uk or through Vista’s website at www.vistaprojects.co.uk

PS There is a small 2 minute film of the first picture being made and put up at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZij8KlXPns

If you want to know more about it and follow the project you can join Futurescope’s facebook group or subscribe to the blog from the Lingfield Point website at http://www.lingfieldpoint.co.uk/#futurescope/Home