public art

Public spaces fascinate me.  

The public realm is an ever-changing, uncontrollable, shifting arena. Unlike the gallery with its audience who come ready-prepared to see art, art for public space needs to be able to work on a number of levels for different viewers at different times; fleetingly glimpsed from a bus, sat on in a town square, chanced upon while walking the dog.

The process of developing work that is specific to its site - with all the considerations, complications and uncertainties that time, weather, changing landscapes and urban developments bring – is a challenge like no other.  How does this work develop?  Through a lot of research and problem-solving, through visiting and exploring the visual environment, through reading up and uncovering the hidden, the special, the distinct, the unique.  Through consultation, participation, creating debate; infusing the work with the character of the place, and the people who will live with it.