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In Certain Places is a programme of public artworks, talks and events based in Preston, Lancashire, run in partnership between the Harris Museum & Art Gallery and the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan).

Since 2003, In Certain Places have worked with regional and national artists to examine and reveal the physical and social specificities of Preston, including Jeppe Hein, John Newling, Shezad Dawood, Becky Shaw, Magda Stawarska-Beavan, Susan Walsh and Leo Fitzmaurice amongst others.

Issues of art, architecture and the public realm have also been explored through a number of talks and symposia, which have included presentations by Alfredo Jaar, Charles Jencks, Paul Gough and Loraine Leeson.

The project is run by curators Charles Quick and Elaine Speight, with curatorial support from Lubaina Himid MBE. For regular updates about the project, please join our mailing list, make friends with us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.

'The Extraction'. Left to right - Naseer (Bhasker Patel), Maggie (Tracey Brabin), Shin (Jennifer Lim), Warner (Paul Leonard), Jiang (Chen Ko), Nikki (Samantha Edwards, Warner (Derek Siow) Credit: Piercing Brightness by Shezad Dawood Production Still, 2011 Courtesy of UBIK Productions Ltd Piercing Brightness production still. ‘The Extraction’. Left to right – Naseer (Bhasker Patel), Maggie (Tracey Brabin),  Shin (Jennifer Lim), Warner (Paul Leonard), Jiang (Chen Ko), Nikki (Samantha  Edwards, Warner (Derek Siow)    Credit:  Piercing Brightness by Shezad Dawood  Production Still, 2011  Courtesy of UBIK Productions Ltd.