The 2007 Turner Prize
Innovation, Art and Design are integral to every Milligan project and so we were delighted to be one of the main sponsors of the 2007 Turner Prize. We have a proven track record of delivering creatively- driven projects and our philosophy has always been to create places where people are inspired to shop.
The Turner Prize Sponsorship gave us the opportunity to further our ongoing exploration of the potential for culture, commerce and creativity to come together to create inspiring and exciting retail spaces.
As early investors in Liverpool, where we developed the highly successful Metquarter shopping centre, we are proud to have contributed to the City’s regeneration and have always engaged local artistic communities, including students from John Moores University.
One of our local initiatives was the Taxi project which centered around our Turner Prize Sponsorship and involved training a group of Liverpool taxi drivers to talk about modern art and the Turner Prize. The taxis were fitted with a camera to interview the general public during their journeys. This footage was then edited and made into DVDs which ran in a continuous loop in a taxi parked in the top floor gallery at Tate Liverpool. The DVD incorporated interviews with Metquarter people and featured footage of the Metquarter building.
Both the on road taxis and the taxi in Tate Liverpool were branded as being supported by Metquarter. More4 also made a documentary about this project.
We also ran an arts education project around the Turner Prize in local schools with an exhibition in the Metquarter.
‘Milligan is a modern retail developer and a key aim across all of our projects is to create spaces that are inspiring and exciting. I am delighted that we are sponsoring the Turner Prize. Firstly, because it reflects a real interest that myself and the Milligan team have in contemporary art, and secondly, because we’re always interested in exploring the links between design, art and fashion and how we can create relationships between these things to reach out to people.’ John Milligan CEO