Art at the Airport
Thursday August 14, 2008
Airports generally bombard my senses: people twittering, announcements bing-bonging, bland information boards you by necessity have to look at, advertising posters of varying quality design trying to sell me things I don't want... When I went to Inverness airport recently, I was expecting less of it, being a small regional airport, and indeed there was. But what there also was, which I was not expecting at all, was an exhibition of original art in the restaurant seating area.
While I didn't see anyone specifically looking at the paintings and I can't say who might have noticed (certainly not the kids with their noses against the windows looking at the planes on the runway), it certainly enhanced my "airport experience". It's a collaboration between Ealain Gallery (Ealain is Gaelic for art) and the Highlands and Islands Airports. The paintings are for sale and are delivered to you at the end of each two-month show. Now if only the same could be found at London's airports which have considerably more wall space waiting around for a flight could be less painful.
While I didn't see anyone specifically looking at the paintings and I can't say who might have noticed (certainly not the kids with their noses against the windows looking at the planes on the runway), it certainly enhanced my "airport experience". It's a collaboration between Ealain Gallery (Ealain is Gaelic for art) and the Highlands and Islands Airports. The paintings are for sale and are delivered to you at the end of each two-month show. Now if only the same could be found at London's airports which have considerably more wall space waiting around for a flight could be less painful.
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Hello Marion…
Just wanted to let you know that while passing through Luton Airport at the beginning of the year I also noticed a show of artworks convieneintly placed in the area where they would get the most attention: the queue aisle on route to the eatery! I was both proud and pleased for the artists as well as excited that art could be seen in such a casual way.
We spend too much time in queues in ALL kinds of places, we’d have a much more pleasant experience and less rage if art was displayed, perhaps causing discussion between the people who 20 mins earlier thought they’d be wasting their precious time in yet another queue!
Sophia x
How fabulous!
hey,
thanks! This is a very interesting post
yeah - that would be a wonderful idea!
Never wasting time in waiting lines.
Could you find out more of these art at airport projects? I am very much interested in it ,,, and very thankful if someone could send me links or pictures …