Great news to move to the production phase for this exciting project.
Background: A sculptural bench celebrating the new leisure centre, in particular the swimming pool. The sculpture has a flat top surface – the pattern is an optical illusion of depth and will be made from silver granite with polished black granite inlays – ongoing.
FrancisKnight Public Art Consultants are collaborating with Tom Pearman in the development of a public art strategy and concept designs for the L&Q Harrow View East development at Headstone Road, Harrow, London. The Public Art Strategy will be developed to comply with S106 obligations to discharge a public art condition.
Harrow View East is located on the former Kodak Factory site in Harrow, East London. L&Q a leading developer and housing association are delivering 4 phases for the site with 750 new residential apartments from 1 – 3-bedroom flats and maisonettes with private balconies or terraces and shared communal amenity. homes as part of a new neighbourhood.
A sculptural bench celebrating the new leisure centre, in particular the swimming pool. The sculpture has a flat top surface – the pattern is an optical illusion of depth and will be made from silver granite with polished black granite inlays – ongoing.
We are delighted to win the best experimental film category.
A collaboration with film-maker and photographer, Floro Azqueta. The short experimental film, and the production of 4 ‘machines’ fabricated with laser-cut profiles, digital animations and various monitors, explores the former New Landsdowne Social Club, Mare Street, Hackney, London E8, and was screened in the film’s location, the basement of the 195 Mare Street, for the Open House Festival 2023.
Additional sound design by Max and Ben Ringham.
Concept A series of benches which play with the visual language of games, sport, activity and their relationship to wellbeing. A visual language will be developed incorporating intersecting lines of bold colour to reference sport court lines for basketball, football, table tennis etc. in a dynamic and overlapping pattern.
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It’s been great to finally get some good photographs of the project…These are a series of stools celebrating the Cambridge designed, PYE TELEVISION 1937 – A 5-inch Pye television receiver was priced at 21 guineas and within two years the company had sold 2000 sets at an average price of £34. 1949 Pye claimed to be ‘The largest TV manufacturer in Britain’.
SOON TO BE INSTALLED. MACHINED BOULDER FACE AND GRAPHICS. GREAT TO BE AWARDED NEW PUBLIC ART COMMISSION FOR GUILDFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL
The public art commission sited at Foxenden Quarry Play Area, for Guildford Borough Council involves a series of bespoke sandblasted granite boulders, celebrating the WW2 Foxenden Quarry Deep Shelter.
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My proposal shows two natural seating sculptures. These features could be stand alone and which also have a varying degree of influence on other public seating and other public realm features designed for the area, such as planters, cycle stands and business area divides.
In summary, I would like to draw upon the heritage of Kings Street to deliver a public art scheme that embraces its history and presented using a contemporary design aesthetic. I would aim to employ both traditional and modern materials and fabrication techniques to present a series of artwork that appealed to large local demographic, and to complement the overall enhancement strategy for the vicinity.
I was delighted to be shortlisted for the exciting Moda, Hove Central Public Art Project for the new Hove Station Quarter district development sited on land between Hove Park–Shoreham Road and the railway line–seafront on Sackville Road.
The aim of the project was to create meaningful interpretative artistic designs within the location’s shared public space.
The proposed project was to provide a graphic architectural intervention with the main development’s access stairway into the main public concourse, celebrating famous natural and man-made landmarks of the area.
The public art commission sited at Foxenden Quarry Play Area, for Guildford Borough Council involves a series of bespoke sandblasted granite boulders, celebrating the WW2 Foxenden Quarry Deep Shelter.
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PART OF AN EXCITING PROJECT FINALLY COMPLETED FOR CAMBRIDGE IRON WORK MILL ROAD #PUBLICART #COMMISSION – STEAM POWER – This one is part of a series celebrating The Eagle Foundry where In the 1850’s under the partnership of Headly & Manning, a wide variety of steam powered machinery and engines were manufactured including engine boilers, gasometers and pumps for use on the land or for drainage. The sculpture has been positioned on an expansion joint of the elevation and plays with a lever’s open or close position…
