There always have been artists working in public as part of a continuing tradition since the 19 cent.; they are often unshown in galleries,no publicity, subservient to their clients to the detriment of their own imagination and creativity; the change in the last decade is the recognition that there is a legitimate role for artists outside the gallery and thus the direction of support for this has come from the ACGB and the RAA's; important dev. has been the residency leading to a p.a. work; artists have surprised themselves by the challenge of site and place; need for artist/arch't collaboration; the only true collab. did not come to fruition that of Gavin Jones and Will Allsop for the Riverside Stuios.

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