Interior Design Blog

Bus-Tops aims to make the bus journeys in London more engaging and inspiring by installing LED screens on top of 30 bus shelters around the capital. The screens have been fitted with red and black LED lights to present artwork from professional artists as well as from members of the public. Twenty locations have been announced for far.

Behind the idea are artistic directors of Art Public - Alfie Dennen and Paula Le Dieu, who hope that the project will 'foster new conversations around the role of the public in art and the power of new technologies to bridge gaps between the public and artistic expression.'

Nine artists have been chosen to take up month-long residencies on the project and feature their works on the bus shelters. This month will see Turner Prize-nominated artist Mark Titchner's installation 31 Day Programme, which will present a different message or motivational challenge for each day during the month. Titchner said that his installation will 'invite the viewer to reflect on their aspirations and potential'. 

Carla Arocha + Stéphane Schraenen, Jemima Brown, Jasmina Cibic, Michelle Deignan, Kate Davis, Ian Monroe, Conrad Ventur, Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich will be the other contemporary artists presenting their work in the months leading up to September, when the project is set to end.

Till then though, organisers want the public to be an active participant in the project too and have called for Londoners to submit their own ideas for digital art, drawings, photographs, poems and words to be featured on the bus-stop screens. Ideas can be logged on the Bus-Tops website from late January.

The country's other 11 public art projects commissioned as part of Artists Taking the Lead can be seen on the website of Arts Council England.