Queenborough and Rushenden Art a

6th June- 30th July ~ Leysdown-on Sea Plaza
Lucy Harrison
Greg Reed
1st August- 1st September ~Milton Creek

A temporary public room has been created by recycling a redundant shipping container.

The room transforms a familiar utilitarian object to provide a comfortable, mobile environment. A series of new openings in the container's skin, each with a distinctive character, fills it with natural light and sets up visual connections between the space of the interior and the surroundings. It will be installed at various key locations in Swale for the next two years, to create a flexible space for making and showing art.

This project has been funded by Arts Council, Swale Borough Council and Kent County Council. Art at the Centre commissioned architect/artist Simon Barker to design and deliver the Space.

The Room is a self-contained, unique, flexible and responsive space, allowing projects to travel to a number of priority areas including Rushenden, Milton Creek and Leysdown to bring engaging and high quality programme of activities and 'Art in Public Places' projects to priority regeneration areas, along with providing a face for the project and a base for Art at the Centre.

Simon Barker trained in architecture at the Bartlett school, University College London. He works as an architect and designer as well as making and exhibiting art. He has a particular interest in landscape and place and has been involved in several significant public art projects as an extension of both his architectural and artistic practices. Since 1991 he has been a partner in Barker Shorten Architects; lectured at Kent Institute of Art and Design, University for the Creative Arts, and the University of Kent.

Art at the Centre is accepting proposals from artists and local creative groups for using of the space as part of their project from April 2011. If you have a great idea for an exhibition or need a space to run workshops from contact Nicole Mollett for more details nicolemollett@swale.gov.uk.