Major Commissions
1997 – 2022
Title: Near Heaven
Date: 2022
Description: Installation in Vanessa Bell’s attic studio, Charleston, East Sussex, UK.
Materials: Acrylic mirror with MDF and softwood sub-structure; 2 x portrait busts of Virginia Woolf and Julia Stephen; pencil portrait on paper of Vanessa Bell by Duncan Grant, dated March 62; portrait of Vanessa Bell by L&B ‘VB by L&B’ March 2022, C type pigment print, reverse face mounted on Perspex; fresh flowers from Charleston Garden.
Location: Attic studio of Vanessa Bell, Charleston, East Sussex, UK
Client: Charleston Trust, East Sussex, UK
Curators: Darren Clarke, Nathaniel Hepburn.
Title: Absent Artists
Date: 2022
Description: Exhibition and installation curated and designed by Langlands & Bell with artworks from the ‘Artists at Work‘ collection of Katrin Bellinger depicting artists studios without the artist present. The artworks selected by Langlands & Bell were installed on and around ‘Serpentine‘ an ‘S’ shaped ‘line of beauty’ wall designed by the artists.
Materials: MDF, Water soluble emulsion paint. Dimensions: 2.2m x 8m x 1.7m.
Location: South Gallery, Charleston, East Sussex, UK.
Client: Charleston Trust, East Sussex, UK.
Curators: Langlands & Bell, Nathaniel Hepburn.
Title: Beauty < Immortality
Date: 2016
Description: Permanent installation, memorial to Frank Pick, visionary first CEO of London Transport.
Materials: Travertine marble, bronze, vitreous enamel on steel, LEDs and associated electrics.
Location: Piccadilly Circus Underground Station, London.
Client: Transport for London.
Curators: Art on the Underground, London Transport Museum.
Art consultant: Ann Elliott.
Title: Call & Response (Le Réponse)
Date: 2012
Description: Architectural installation, interactive Metro entrances for the Paris Metro / T3 Tramway interchange.
Materials: Fritted low iron glass, intelligent LEDs and associated electronics, stainless steel.
Location: Porte de Vincennes, Paris, France.
Client: City of Paris / RATP.
Artistic Director; Christian Bernard (MAMCO, Geneva); Curator: Natalie Viot, (Ville de Paris).
Associate engineers / designers : AR Theme Associées; Xelis, Paris.
Title: Spiral Galaxy
Date: 2012
Description: Unique sculpture.
Materials: Digitally controlled neon and associated electronics on aluminium panel.
Location: Caves de Veuve Clicquot, Rheims, France.
Client: Veuve Clicquot, (MHCS) Epernay, France.
Title: Question?
Date: 2012
Description: Two part sculpture, installation.
Materials: part 1: White Estremoz marble, Nero Absoluto black granite; part 2: steel panel, intelligent LEDs and associated electronics, artist’s data programme.
Location: University Campus Suffolk, Ipswich, UK.
Client: UCS (University Campus Suffolk).
Art consultant: Commissions East.
Title: Kendrew’s MIlestone
Date: 2011
Description: Memorial to Micro-biologist and Nobel Prize winner Sir John Kendrew.
Materials: Carrara marble, lead inlay, resin inlay, stainless steel.
Location: St John’s College, Oxford, UK.
Client: St John’s College, Oxford.
Art consultant: Modus Operandi, London.
Building Architect: MacCormack Jamieson Pritchard (MJP), London.
Title: Language of Places (China)
Date: 2009
Description: Wall painting, 4.6 m x 18 m.
Materials: Watersoluble house paint
Location: Tang Contemporary, 798, Beijing, China.
Client: Tang Contemporary.
Curator: Katie Hill.
Title: Moving World (Night & Day)
Date: 2008
Materials: Digitally controlled neon and associated electronics, glass, granite, stainless steel.
Location: Terminal 5, London Heathrow Airport, UK.
Client: BAA (British Airports Authority).
Art consultant: Contemporary Art Society, London.
Building Architect: Rogers, Stirk, Harbour & Partners (Richard Rogers Partnership), London.
Title: Virtual World
Date: 2008
Materials: Digitally controlled neon and associated electronics on aluminium panel.
Location: New Street Square, London, UK.
Client: Land Securities.
Art consultant: Art Source.
Building Architect: Bennetts Associates, London.
Title: Folkestone : Boulogne, A Blind Date
Date: 2008
Description: Film commissioned for the Folkestone Triennial.
Materials: Video (archived on DVD). Colour, sound. 19 mins, 25secs.
Client: The Creative Foundation for the Folkestone Triennial.
Curator: Andrea Schlieker.
Title: Schroders Coda
Date: 2007
Description: Sculpture.
Materials: intelligent LEDs and associated electronics, mirror stainless steel.
Location: Schroders, Gresham Street Headquarters, City of London, UK.
Client: Schroders Investment Management.
Art consultant: Tempest Radford.
Title: Superactive i2i
Date: 2007
Description, Remote hosted virtual world enabling multiple user online interaction and communication.
Location: Somerset House, London.
Engineers: Inventive Partners, AMT 3D.
Client: Somerset House Trust, London.
Curator: Somerset House, London.
Title: Domain
Date: 2006
Description, Sculpture.
Materials: Portland Stone.
Location: Canon’s Marsh, Bristol, UK.
Client: Bristol Harbourside.
Curator: Tim Knowles.
Title: Opening Sky
Date: 2006
Materials: Digitally controlled neon and associated electronics mounted on wall.
Location: Dulles Jet Center, Washington Dulles International Airport, USA.
Client: General Dynamics.
Art consultant: Lisa Austin Associates, Washington DC.
Title: Eclipse
Date: 2005
Materials: Wood, steel, lacquer.
Location: Bloomberg, Lexington Avenue Headquarters, New York, USA.
Client: Bloomberg Financial News.
Curator: New York Public Art Fund.
(For images of Eclipse 2005 see Eclipse 1998 (a related work, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds).
Title: Domain
Date: 2005
Description: Temporary wall painting, 5.56m x 15.53m.
Materials: Water-soluble house paint.
Location: Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes UK.
Curator: Michael Stanley.
Title: Plunged in a Stream
Date: 2005
Description, Locally hosted and networked virtual world enabling multiple user interaction.
Location: Site Archéologique du Coudenberg, Ancien Palais de Bruxelles / Archeologische Site van de Coudenberg, Voormalig Paleis van Brussel. Belgium.
Engineers: BT Media Lab, Martlesham, Suffolk, UK.
Client: BT Group.
Art consultant: Future City, London.
Title: Language of Places (Eurostar)
Date: 2004
Materials, Vinyl decal on Eurostar powercar.
Description: Bespoke Eurostar livery to mark the !0th anniversary of Eurostar services.
Location: River Thames, London.
Client: Eurostar.
Art consultant: Preston Howard, London.
Title: Reawakening
Date: 2004
Description: Permanent site specific installation and temporary wall painting.
Materials, Mirror laminated toughened glass, and water-soluble house paint.
Location: Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland, UK.
Client: Mount Stuart Trust.
Curator: Sophie Crichton-Stuart.
Title: Paddington Basin Bridge
Date: 2004
Materials, Fritted low iron glass, steel, aluminium ramp & deck, electric lift.
Location: Paddington Basin, London, UK.
Structural Engineers: Atelier One, London.
Client: Paddington Development Corporation.
Curator: Public Art Development Trust, London.
Title: Opening / Capture
Date: 2003
Materials: Portland stone.
Location: Regents Place, Euston Road, London, UK.
Client: British Land.
Curator: Andrea Schlieker, London.
Title: The House of Osama bin Laden (Trilogy)
Date: 2003
Materials: Interactive digital media & mixed media.
Location: Imperial War Museum, London + 20 international museums and galleries world-wide.
Client: Imperial War Museum, London.
Curator: Dr Angela Weight.
Titles: Shell & Opening : Capture
Date: 2002
Description: Sculpture installation.
Materials: Wood, glass, lacquer.
Location: Dentsu Corporation Headquarters, Shiodome, Tokyo, Japan.
Client: Dentsu.
Art consultant: Art & Document & Art Dynamics, Tokyo.
Building Architect: Jean Nouvel, Paris.
(For images of Opening / Capture 2002 see Opening / Capture 1999 (a related work at BAC Yale).
Title: The Artist’s Studio
Date: 2002
Materials: Interactive digital media & mixed media.
Location: Petworth House, West Sussex, UK.
Client: The National Trust , Pallant House Gallery.
Curator: Stefan van Raay.
Title: 111 Strand
Date: 2001
Description: Wall mounted low relief sculpture, permanent installation.
Materials: Portland stone.
Location: 111 Strand, London, UK
Client: City & West End Developments
Art consultant: Modus Operandi, London
Title: Volume
Date: 2000
Description: Temporary architectural installation.
Materials: Wood, paint.
Location: Volume!, Associazione Culturale, Rome, Italy.
Client: Volume! Associazione Culturale Francesco Nucci, Rome, Italy.
Curator: Mario Codognato.
Title: Space : Object
Date: 2000
Description: Sculpture (didtych).
Materials: Wood, glass, paint, lacquer.
Location: New British Embassy, Moscow, Russia.
Client: UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Curator: UK Government Art Collection, London.
Building Architect: ABK, London.
Title: Moving World (Obayashi)
Date: 1999
Materials, Stainless steel, wood, lacquer, vinyl.
Location: Obayashi Headquarters, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan.
Client: Obayashi Corporation.
Curator/art consultant: Nanjo Associates, Tokyo.
Title: Language of Places (Mind Zone)
Date: 1999
Materials: Digitally controlled neon mounted on fascia of building.
Location: Mind Zone, Millennium Dome, London.
Client: NMEC, London.
Art advisor: Doris Lockhart-Saatchi, Curator: NMEC.
Building Architect: Zaha Hadid, London, UK.
Title: Frozen Sky (CCA)
Date: 1997
Description: Temporary installation.
Materials: Acrylic foam-core laminate.
Location: CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan.
Curator: CCA Kitakyushu.
Title: Logo Structure
Date: 1997
Materials: Wood, glass, paint, lacquer.
Location: Fuji Television Network headquarters, Daiba, Tokyo.
Client: Fuji Television.
Curator/art consultant: Art & Document, Tokyo.
Building Architect: Kenzo Tange, Tokyo, Japan.
Title: Fifty Cities
Date: 1997
Materials: Portland Stone.
Dimensions:L 45cm x 600cm.
Location: Cass Sculpture Foundation, West Sussex, UK.
Client: Cass Sculpture Foundation.
Curator Ann Elliott.