Glasgow Caledonian University has built a state-of-the-art Learning Centre at the heart of its new campus. Completed in early 2006, it has been designed to provide innovative, flexible space and facilities to meet the learning needs of its 14,000 students, the community and its business partners.
Art in Partnership worked with the University and architects Building Design Partnership to commission artists to design and implement artworks that have been integrated within the principle circulation areas inside and outside the building.
Beck's Future winner, Toby Paterson, was commissioned to create an artwork for the walls of the busy student mall area. 'Potential Forms (Black, Blue & White Isometric)' painted in vinyl silk and acrylic, helps to establish the Saltire Centre as the social hub of the campus.
As part of the landscaping for the external courtyard, Gary Breeze has completed a text work with stanzas from a Latin poem by Horace (Ode 3.9) together with translated texts in English and modern Scots dialect carved into limestone. This carved stone installation reflects the ideals of the Saltire Centre as a place of learning and culture and provides a place where first time students and visitors will want to spend their time.
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