{"id":627678,"date":"2026-06-08T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627678\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:08:10","slug":"cambridge-south-railway-station-unveils-turner-prize-nominees-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/627678\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge South railway station unveils Turner prize nominee&#8217;s art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Titchner&#8217;s artwork, which was commissioned by the regional rail company GBR Anglia and the project steering group, has been installed on the balustrades of the station&#8217;s stairways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It focuses on the circulation and coming &#8220;together&#8221; of people, with its origins in circulatory systems, both medical and in transport, according to Network Rail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As part of the commission, Titchner will lead assemblies in three city primary schools to help them develop posters inspired by his art.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cambridge South will be the third railway station for the city and is next to Addenbrooke&#8217;s Hospital\/Cambridge Biomedical Campus, and the expanding housing estates at Trumpington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grace Thorne, director at visual arts consultancy Commission Projects, said she was &#8220;delighted&#8221; to have brought &#8220;his practice to a wider Cambridge audience&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sanjay Patel, GBR Anglia sponsor for the station project, said: &#8220;When customers enter the station, they will be presented with Mark&#8217;s concept giving them an opportunity to enjoy and consider what it means to them before catching their train service.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Titchner&#8217;s artwork, which was commissioned by the regional rail company GBR Anglia and the project steering group, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-627678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}