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Turn­er Prize win­ning artist Susan Philip­sz has been select­ed to cre­ate a piece of per­ma­nent pub­lic art on Gov­er­nors Island. Philip­sz was cho­sen by The Trust through the City’s Per­cent for Art Pro­gram. Per­cent for Art is a com­mis­sion­ing pro­gram that inte­grates per­ma­nent works of art into pub­licly fund­ed cap­i­tal projects through an equi­table artist selec­tion process. Philipsz’s com­mis­sion will be the first work in an ongo­ing pub­lic art pro­gram open­ing with the new park and pub­lic spaces in 2013.

Philip­sz was born in Glas­gow, Scot­land and cur­rent­ly works and lives in Berlin. She was rec­og­nized in 2010 with the pres­ti­gious Turn­er Prize, a con­tem­po­rary art award that is giv­en annu­al­ly to a British artist under 50 for an out­stand­ing work or exhi­bi­tion. Her work has appeared at the Mel­bourne Inter­na­tion­al Bien­nale, the Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art in Chica­go, the Guggen­heim Muse­um in New York City and on Gov­er­nors Island as a part of Cre­ative Time’s ​“Plot 09: This World and Near­er Ones” exhi­bi­tion in 2009. While many of her instal­la­tions have been tem­po­rary in nature, her work here will be per­ma­nent and will be sit­ed in the future park and pub­lic spaces that are includ­ed in phase 1 of the Park and Pub­lic Space Mas­ter Plan. Philipsz’s work will be com­plet­ed in 2013 and she has not yet select­ed site(s) for her work.

Philip­sz’s piece is the first in a new com­mis­sion­ing pro­gram on the Island that will be curat­ed by Tom Eccles.