Artworks created for The Great Big Art Exhibition are going to be featuring on hundreds of digital screens in the UK’s leading malls, all thanks to a partnership with Clear Channel.
The Great Big Art Exhibition is a celebration of the creativity in all of us. While the doors to our museums and galleries were shut during the winter lockdown, we invited everyone to make artworks and use front windows, gardens, balconies and outdoor spaces to share your creations.
Over 5000 artworks were posted on social media during lockdown by people from all over the UK and across the world, including posts from Canada, France and Portugal and all artworks are currently appearing on a digital wall in Firstsite (until 5 September).
From 12 July until 25th July, a selection of artworks created by the public will also be appearing on hundreds of Clear Channel screens up and down the UK, from Aberdeen to Southampton.
Firstsite Director Sally Shaw MBE says: “When the doors to our collections and galleries closed our imaginations very much stayed open. Making, showing and experiencing art has created so much joy, connection and solace for many thousands of people through this difficult time – I can’t wait to see these incredible expressions of people’s creativity being shared right across the UK.”
Locations include:
Union Square Shopping Centre, Aberdeen
Brent Cross Shopping Centre, Barnet
Festival Place, Basingstoke
Bull Ring Shopping Centre, Birmingham
Grand Central Shopping Centre, Birmingham
Churchill Square, Brighton
Cabot Circus Shopping Centre, Bristol
The Mall at Cribbs Causeway, Bristol
Coopers Square Shopping Centre, Burton upon Trent
County Mall, Crawley
Centrale Shopping Centre, Croydon
Derbion, Derby
Frenchgate Centre, Doncaster
Merry Hill Shopping Centre, Dudley
Ealing Broadway Shopping Centre, Ealing
Fort Kinnaird, Edinburgh
Fareham Shopping Centre, Fareham
Kingdom Shopping Centre, Fife
Clyde Shopping Centre, Glasgow
Glasgow Fort, Glasgow
Silverburn Shopping Centre, Glasgow
Freshney Place, Grimsby
Friary Shopping Centre, Guilford
Eden Shopping Centre, High Wycombe
Eastgate Shopping Centre, Inverness
Princes Quay Shopping Centre, Kingston upon Hull
St Stephens, Kingston upon Hull
Victoria Gate Shopping Centre, Leeds
Victoria Quarter Shopping Centre, Leeds
Highcross Shopping Centre, Leicester
The Centre, Livingston, West Lothian
Manchester Arndale, Manchester
The Trafford Centre, Manchester
Drake Circus, Plymouth
The Oracle Shopping Centre, Reading
Meadowhall Centre, Sheffield
West Quay Shopping Centre, Southampton
New Mersey, Speke, Liverpool
Thistles Shopping Centre, Stirling
The Bridges Shopping Centre, Sunderland
Royal Victoria Place, Tunbridge Wells
The Ridings, Wakefield
Peacocks Shopping Centre, Woking
Find out more about The Great Big Art Exhibition