‘Navigators and friends’: An Interview with Former Olympic Park Artist in Residence Neville Gabie and Curator Sam Wilkinson

Abstract

Neville Gabie was Olympic artist-in-residence between October 2010 and December 2011 at the Olympic Park in London, UK. Gabie was the only artist on-site during the construction phase of the Park and, with curator Sam Wilkinson, he developed Great Lengths, a series of public art pieces about the site and its workers. In an interview with Keren Zaiontz, Gabie and Wilkinson discuss the challenge of creating art on a construction site that also acted as a global stage for the UK in the lead up to and during the 2012 London Summer Games.