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Vivien Lovell BA Hons FRSA Hon FRIBA
Founder-Director, Modus Operandi Art Consultants
Vivien Lovell is a visual arts curator with established expertise in
commissioning permanent and temporary art within the designed
environment. She founded Modus Operandi in 1999 as an independent
consultancy, having previously been Founder-Director of Public Art
Commissions Agency (PACA) from 1987 to 1999. She has experience in
generating and leading art/architecture/landscape collaborative
projects, aiming to integrate art strategically as a key element of
environmental, architectural and regenerative schemes.
Whilst Director of PACA, Lovell led the Strategy for Public Art in
Cardiff Bay (recommending a Percent for Art Policy and the
establishment of CBAT), the Strategy and Art Programme for Birmingham
City Council, and public art commissions for clients including London
Docklands Development Corporation, the Foreign Office Overseas Estate
Department, European Passenger Services, TSB, and St John’s College
Oxford. From 1990 – ‘94 she chaired Public Art Forum and in this
capacity initiated the Alliance for Art, Architecture and Design with
the RIBA, a fixed-term project that successfully generated wider
acceptance of interdisciplinary collaborative practice.
Previous posts: Public Art Co-ordinator, West Midlands Arts (1985-87);
Sculpture Co-ordinator, National Garden Festival Stoke-on-Trent
(1985-86); Deputy Director, Ikon Gallery (1982-85); Visual Arts
Officer, London Borough of Tower Hamlets (1978-82).
Lovell lectures internationally; her areas of research include
artist-designed public spaces, alternative responses to ‘monument’ and
‘memorial’, and artists’ ecological projects. Publications include ‘Public: Art: Space’ (Merrell Holberton 1998), and ‘Phoenix: Architecture, Art, Regeneration’
(Black Dog, 2004). She is a member of the Royal Academy Forum for Art
and Architecture, and of the South East England Design Review Panel.
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