http://www.mrtomkeeley.co.uk Tom Keeley Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:51:51 +0000 http://www.mrtomkeeley.co.uk en http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/The-Great-Tate-Mod-Blog http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/following/mrtomkeeley.co.uk/The-Great-Tate-Mod-Blog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:51:51 +0000 Tom Keeley 2827861 As part of the Transforming Tate Modern programme I was commissioned by Tate to scour the country for the best examples of architecture and design. See the blogposts here. http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/Cooling-Towers-Collectibles-Co http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/following/mrtomkeeley.co.uk/Cooling-Towers-Collectibles-Co Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:27:12 +0000 Tom Keeley 2822750 Once upon a time, there were two old Cooling Towers on the edge of Sheffield. Unused and abandoned. Famous and loved across the North of England. We wanted to turn them into new symbols for Sheffield, into spaces for amazing public art. Landmarks for the city we loved: part of its heavy, ugly history, turned into something futuristic, creative, beautiful. Tate Moderns for the North. What started as just a Good Idea soon spiralled out of control. It turned into a huge campaign. We won a place on the Big Art Project on Channel 4, got some famous faces to support us, and got the whole city thinking: what if? We nearly made it, too. But the owners of the towers, Eon, didn't want it to happen. And the City Council, bless them, didn't dare. They wanted something easier, something a bit less challenging. Maybe something made out of steel. You know, the usual. To mark their passing we opened a gift shop selling limited edition memorabilia and merchandise. If the towers couldn't stay, at least they could live on in people's minds and on their mantlepieces. The cooling towers were demolished in August 2008. Photos: Andy Brown <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822750/overspill 6.jpg" width="670" height="446" width_o="1200" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822750/overspill 6_o.jpg" data-mid="14361418" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822750/IMG_0977.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822750/IMG_0977_o.JPG" data-mid="14361119" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822750/P1020427.JPG" width="670" height="444" width_o="2048" height_o="1360" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822750/P1020427_o.JPG" data-mid="14361137" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822750/P1020452.JPG" width="670" height="444" width_o="2048" height_o="1360" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822750/P1020452_o.JPG" data-mid="14361155" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822750/Cups with Go stamp.jpg" width="670" height="285" width_o="2000" height_o="851" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822750/Cups with Go stamp_o.jpg" data-mid="14361423" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822750/plates low res.jpg" width="500" height="425" width_o="500" height_o="425" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822750/plates low res_o.jpg" data-mid="14361198" border="0" align="left"/> http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/White-House-Redux http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/following/mrtomkeeley.co.uk/White-House-Redux Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:02:09 +0000 Tom Keeley 2822719 On occasion of the election of the 44th President of the United States of America, Storefront for Art and Architecture called for ideas to design a new residence for the world's most powerful individual. The best ideas were featured in a month-long exhibition at Storefront for Art and Architecture in July 2008. I then worked with Joseph Grima on the book to document the competition and exhibition. <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822719/P1050866.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822719/P1050866_o.JPG" data-mid="14349764" border="0" align="left"/> http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/Summer-of-Discontent http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/following/mrtomkeeley.co.uk/Summer-of-Discontent Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:06:32 +0000 Tom Keeley 2822757 The Summer of Discontent was an attempt to fill a massive void. There was nothing big happening in Sheffield over that summer. Other cities were having festivals, street parties, huge events. The best we had were a few crappy family fun days with face painting for the kiddies and rubbish versions of fairground rides. So we tried to do something about it. Put on an anti-festival. We did a series of posters, one a week, to link up all the little things into something bigger, collaborating with designers including Jon Cannon, Suzie Webb, Kid Acne, Dust, and Phlegm. <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822757/P1050877.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822757/P1050877_o.JPG" data-mid="14348114" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822757/SOD000.jpg" width="500" height="750" width_o="500" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822757/SOD000_o.jpg" data-mid="14348321" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822757/SOD002.jpg" width="500" height="750" width_o="500" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822757/SOD002_o.jpg" data-mid="14348326" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822757/SOD002back.jpg" width="500" height="750" width_o="500" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822757/SOD002back_o.jpg" data-mid="14348329" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822757/SOD007.jpg" width="500" height="750" width_o="500" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822757/SOD007_o.jpg" data-mid="14348333" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822757/SOD008.jpg" width="500" height="750" width_o="500" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822757/SOD008_o.jpg" data-mid="14348336" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822757/SOD009.jpg" width="500" height="750" width_o="500" height_o="750" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822757/SOD009_o.jpg" data-mid="14348337" border="0" align="left"/> http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/Flat http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/following/mrtomkeeley.co.uk/Flat Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:28:39 +0000 Tom Keeley 2824518 Flat is a fanzine about Park Hill in Sheffield. Named after the resident's magazine from the 1960s it celebrates Park Hill past, present and future; and came complete with a limited edition screen print by Dust. <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2824518/P1050878.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2824518/P1050878_o.JPG" data-mid="14347232" border="0" align="left"/> http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/Beauty-Is-In-The-Street http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/following/mrtomkeeley.co.uk/Beauty-Is-In-The-Street Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:07:12 +0000 Tom Keeley 2824413 I was commisioned by the Victoria & Albert Museum to produce a series of prints for their Friday Late, Independent Publishing event. Conceived as a critique on the brand heavy commodification of cities and privatised public space, the installation examined how the cities and spaces we occupy are becoming places to consume rather than to just be. <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2824413/P1060600.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2824413/P1060600_o.JPG" data-mid="14346799" border="0" align="left"/> Beauty Is In The Street <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2824413/P1060599.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2824413/P1060599_o.JPG" data-mid="14346815" border="0" align="left"/> Be Young And Shut Up <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2824413/P1060598.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2824413/P1060598_o.JPG" data-mid="14346838" border="0" align="left"/> Is This An Unemployed Person? <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2824413/P1060597.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2824413/P1060597_o.JPG" data-mid="14346881" border="0" align="left"/> Light Wages Heavy Tanks http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/Venice-Biennale http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/following/mrtomkeeley.co.uk/Venice-Biennale Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:00:20 +0000 Tom Keeley 2824367 In 2006 Sheffield represented the UK at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. Echo City, developed under the leadership of Jeremy Till, then Director of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, was an "urban register" describing Sheffield at a variety of scales from 1:1 to 1:10 million. The team included Martyn Ware from Heaven 17, Tim Etchells of Forced Entertainment , photographer Hugo Glendinning, and Ruth Ben-Tovim and Trish O'Shea. I, along with Tom James, wrote the main text for the exhibition catalogue, about how you could love a city like Sheffield that on the surface might seem unlovable. A different kind of loving for all those second class cities with a first class past. <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2824367/P1050882.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2824367/P1050882_o.JPG" data-mid="14347789" border="0" align="left"/> http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/Five-Points-to-an-Ethical-Architecture http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/following/mrtomkeeley.co.uk/Five-Points-to-an-Ethical-Architecture Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:29:39 +0000 Tom Keeley 2822685 Working with film makers Pundersons Gardens on behalf of The Architecture Foundation, I coordinated and delivered a short film for The Barbican to open 'The Barbican Debate'. The film discusses ethics in modern architectural practice, using Le Corbusier's controversial manifesto '5 Points for a New Architecture' as its starting point. Excerpt from Five Points to an Ethical Architecture - from Pundersons Gardens on Vimeo. http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/Go http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/following/mrtomkeeley.co.uk/Go Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:11:43 +0000 Tom Keeley 2822576 Go was a project about Sheffield. A lyrical love letter to the city we lived in, spread over 11 issues of a fanzine with the city as a muse. It was all about celebrating the difference. Dirty, passionate and quick. Sheffield is and was amazing, but not for the reasons anyone was saying. It was never about retail per square foot and pavement cafes. It wasn’t fresh or luxury or sexy. It was about the hills, the people, the history, the music, the soul of the place. Cult classic not bestseller. Go was voted one of the best kept arts secrets in Britain by The Observer, and among other press, was featured in The Guardian. It was also part of the exhibition 'A Few Zines'. You can read back issues here. <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822576/P1050863.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822576/P1050863_o.JPG" data-mid="14349674" border="0" align="left"/> http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/Urban-Pioneers http://mrtomkeeley.co.uk/following/mrtomkeeley.co.uk/Urban-Pioneers Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:52:05 +0000 Tom Keeley 2822467 I curate and deliver The Architecture Foundation’s Urban Pioneers education programme, which focusses on urban areas undergoing significant change; and aims to engage local people with the changes happening to their environments, equipping them with new creative and analytical skills. The programme looks at architecture and place in the widest sense, with workshops covering everything from building boats on the River Lea to filmmaking, and printing fanzines. Workshop leaders have included Verity-Jane Keefe, Gemma Thorpe, We Made That, David Sparshott, muf, and alma-nac. www.urbanpioneers.org.uk <img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822467/IMG_5206.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822467/IMG_5206_o.JPG" data-mid="14336863" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822467/IMG_8633.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822467/IMG_8633_o.JPG" data-mid="14336872" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822467/IMG_8926.JPG" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload26.cargocollective.com/1/4/133789/2822467/IMG_8926_o.JPG" data-mid="14336881" border="0" align="left"/>