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Photographs of 'Route 12:36 / Open 2000' organised by the South London Gallery from 20 June to 1 July 2000, and curated by Jane Bilton.
In June 2000, the South London Gallery launched four new commissions for Route 12:36, the gallery's public art project which was displayed across advertising spaces on local Routemaster buses (nos. 12 and 36). This was the third and final stage of the project and the only one to include work chose by open selection. (The previous two projects included works by invited artists Grennan and Sperandio and Blast Theory and Faisal Abdu’Allah.) Young and emerging artists were specifically targeted through advertising. The selection panel for the project included the gallerist Emily Tsingou, the artist Yinka Shonibare and Stephen Douglass, director of Cultural and Heritage Services for Southwark. The four selected artists, Prawn Publishing, Emily Allchurch, Helen Barff and Cedar Lewisohn created artworks that invited participation from bus passengers in very different ways.