The King’s Cross Project

The King’s Cross Project is an ambitious programme of commissions for the buildings and public spaces of King’s Cross, London N1C. In June 2016, Tamsin Dillon and Rebecca Heald were appointed as the curators at King’s Cross and undertook an extensive study of the 67 acre site before presenting a strategy for a commissioning programme there.

A central ambition of The King’s Cross Project is to invite international artists at all stages of their careers to make significant new work, creating a cultural hub at the heart of the city. The program vision is based on the development of the area as an international destination for the arts and it is dedicated to integrating contributions from artists across the site as it changes and as its communities grow and slowly take ownership. This vision resides in the importance of the relationship between the place and its surroundings, and the exchanges it hosts and enables between people and organisations. The King’s Cross Project is intended as an embedded art programme that both attracts visitors and contributes to the development of a sense of place.

Artworks commissioned through the project include: No.700 Reflectors by Rana Begum, Aleppo at King’s Cross by Tess Jaray, Does the Iterative Fit by Tatham O’Sullivan, Almost Everybody by Tobias Rehberger, Zanzibar by Céline Condorelli, and Rhapsody in Four Colours by Rasheed Araeen. A new work by Eva Rothschild, My World and Your World, will be launched in the near future.