The site sits on a key gateway into the Bidwells West development which is delivering up to 1850 new homes, across 5 new landscape character areas.
More photographs to follow / More information HERE
Part of the Mill Road, Iron Works public art commission for Cambridge Investment Partnership.
I am excited to be shortlisted for the Critical Bestiaries of AI: Reimagining Monsters, project.
The Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (WEH), based at the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute, is looking for an artist with experience in facilitation and designing participatory practical workshops, to join an exciting public engagement project focused on important issues of AI governance called – “Critical Bestiaries of AI: Reimagining Monsters” – supported by TORCH via the Minderoo-Oxford Challenge Fund.
Project background
Working with researchers from the WEH, University of Oxford and the IT University of Copenhagen, the project’s goal is to bring the publics’ attention to aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that require oversight and regulation. We will do this by creating an “AI bestiary”, a collection of AI beasts or monsters representing areas of AI technology that are in need of governance. Teams of Oxford researchers who work on AI from various perspectives (for example, those who create AI-based computer programs, or who look at ethical and social implications of introducing AI in society) and monster studies will create the bestiary during facilitated workshops with the artist and lead researcher.
The PUBLIC ART COMMISSION for the new bandstand will be located within a new community park (Green Park), Linmere, and will provide a public facility for residents. More news to follow.
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TRAIN SIGNAL / SWITCH – The Eagle Foundry (pink) occupying the central part of what was to become the Council Storeyard. Land to left between Foundry and rear gardens of Kingston Street houses, and to right between Foundry and railway, under different ownership (1886 OS map) 2 location options
It’s been great to have the opportunity to install a 3×3 M vinyl poster on the exterior of the Grade II listed, Gayhurst Community School in Hackney. The poster showcases the project, involving 10 primary schools as part of the Arts Council funded project, E8 UFO. The background for the poster is from the Rio Cinema’s wonderful Tape and Slide archive, more information HERE
And keep an eye for a display of the project at the Rio Cinema’s foyer!
I’m delighted to be shortlisted for the significant Commission for Chatham Waterfront. Built in the 1960s, Chatham Waterfront Pumping Station is in a prominent location and visually stands out due to its red brick façade. Tired and in desperate need of a makeover, the pumping station is an operational building owned by Southern Water. Over the years, previous proposals have suggested concealing the pump house, however as part of the regeneration of the waterfront Medway Development Company will reinstate its former and distinctive architectural form.
The public art commission for this site will complement the building’s refurbishment and the new public space and plaza, which sits directly in front of it, acting as a backdrop. Artists will be asked to consider how the building and new public space interact with each other and the wider waterfront scheme.
Development Partner: Medway Development Company Landscape Architects: Exterior
Public Art Consultants: FrancisKnight
FABRICATION IS COMPLETE AND LOOKING FORWARD TO INSTALLING FOR CAMBRIDGE MILL ROAD PUBLIC ART COMMISSION.
STEREOSCAN – The Stereoscan was the first commercial scanning electron microscope in the world. It could magnify up to around 100,000 times. It was developed at the University of Cambridge’s Engineering department in 1965. It was named ‘one of the 100 most significant new technical products of the year’.
FABRICATION IS COMPLETE AND LOOKING FORWARD TO INSTALLING FOR CAMBRIDGE MILL ROAD PUBLIC ART COMMISSION.
These are to be installed as a series of stools celebrating the Cambridged 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’.
INSTALLATION IS COMPLETE FOR CAMBRIDGE MILL ROAD PUBLIC ART COMMISSION.
THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF SWITCHES AND LEVERS FOR THE PROJECT
POSITIONED ON AN EXPANSION JOINT CELEBRATING THE HERITAGE OF THE LOCATION WITH A STEAM POWERED MACHINE’S LEVER.
A Covid-safe collaborative public art project involving 11 Hackney primary schools and over 600 pupils!
Throughout film and literature science fiction we have been captivated with travelling to another inhabited planet, being visited by aliens or documenting unidentified flying objects. Exploring this cultural phenomenon, whilst questioning our own, and our ‘distant neighbours’ cultural identity, we will produce our own ‘faux’ TV and NEWSPAPER UFO reports.
Art resource packs will be provided to the schools and the project will delivered by each individual school. Key to the project will be a series of introductory and how to films involving creative professionals.
These 3 FILMS can be found HERE
Using a collection of local archive architecture photographs, from The Rio Tape/Slide Archive and Hackney Archives, we will create 3d collages as an overlay to well known locations, to create an alternative fictional narrative to what was once familiar. For instance, ‘THE E8 UFO’ or ‘THE UFO THAT SWALLOWED MY SHOP’.
Posters will potentially be printed up to billboards size and adhered temporarily to the schools’ exterior, (and potentially the locations used as the poster’s backdrop), including surfaces such as brick. My aims are to deliver a high quality collaborative public art project teaching key creative skills to a lower socio-economic and culturally diverse target groups.
My aim is also to deliver this project now to provide a rich, rewarding, professionally delivered art project during a Covid-restrictive period.
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I’m very excited to receive approval for a series of enamel switches for a new Community Centre in Cambridge as part of the Mill Road project I’m involved in…more news to follow…..
FABRICATION IS COMPLETE AND LOOKING FORWARD TO INSTALLING IN JULY- FOR CAMBRIDGE MILL ROAD PUBLIC ART COMMISSION.
THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF SWITCHES AND LEVERS FOR THE PROJECT
POSITIONED ON AN EXPANSION JOINT CELEBRATING THE HERITAGE OF THE LOCATION WITH A STEAM POWERED MACHINE’S LEVER.
I’m pleased to be invited to submit a proposal for a public art commission in Stewartby, celebrating the London Brick Company. Stewartby is a model village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, originally built for the workers of the London Brick Company. The village was designed and built to the plans of the company’s architect Mr F W Walker, laid out on ‘Garden City’ principle.
The project is to integrate a series of public artworks into a new Persimmon development and playground.
ARTS COUNCIL EDUCATION PROJECT gains momentum, with support from Hackney Borough Council and Hackney Museum.
Project summary: To deliver a Covid-safe collaborative public art project involving local Hackney primary schools. Throughout film and literature science fiction we have been captivated with travelling to another inhabited planet, being visited by aliens or documenting unidentified flying objects. Exploring this cultural phenomenon, whilst questioning our own, and our ‘distant neighbours’ cultural identity, we will produce our own ‘faux’ sc-fi film posters, book covers and newspaper articles. It will also involve talks by creative professionals presented in an introductory film. Using a collection of local archive architecture photographs, for e.g. local library or shop parade, and text from newspaper clippings, we will create 3d collages as an overlay to well known locations, to create an alternative fictional narrative to what was once familiar. For instance, ‘THE E8 UFO’ or ‘THE UFO THAT SWALLOWED MY SHOP’. Posters will potentially be printed up to billboards size and adhered temporarily to the schools’ exterior, (and potentially the locations used as the poster’s backdrop), including surfaces such as brick. The quantity and size of posters would be dependant on cooperation from the corresponding site. My aims are to deliver a high quality collaborative public art project teaching key creative skills to a lower socio-economic and culturally diverse target groups. My aim is also to deliver this project now to provide a rich, rewarding, professionally delivered art project during a Covid-restrictive period.