COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
"Artwork built into public spaces can act as a peg on which people hang their imagination, it can also enable community stories to be retold, particularly when artworks serve as the prop to a story told by the people of the place."
"The artist must be given time to build a relationship with the place and people. A framework of active engagement needs to be established with a small representative group from the place and through open dialogue, imagination, testing and trust, a bold concept will then develop that will endure and resonate with the community."
Stephen Broadbent
Illuminated glass portholes, portraying contemporary faces of local people.
The design depicts laser cut images of residents from the community, about their daily life.
Bronze inlayed in wall, designed and modelled by Children from the local school.
Sea creatures drawing competition - students able to transform their drawings into clay.
A graphic design was created from 24 stories, and translated into different colours of granite.
The spiraling, multi-coloured granite bench is made up of 100 sections, with engraved memories.
Hand written statements or drawings modelled and cast into the bronze seating units.
The coloured disc placed into a channel suggests a miner at work.
Unique screen-printed pattern developed through community workshops by surface pattern designer.
A temporary studio, allowed people to witness and even assist in the making of the sculpture.
500 inlayed shipyard photographs collected from former shipyard workers and their families.
Each of the sculptural cards is personalised through the addition of a glass disc set within a circular hole.
I COME FROM...
Inlayed Stone enamelled panels and carved text, drawn from the 'I come from..' Community Process.
A photographic portrait and extract of their stories screen printed and fired onto the tiles.
Bronze panels with designs in response to themes made in the workshops by 3 schools in Alsager.
“Artists have found a role, a creative voice that engages in a social purpose, making a difference on our streets, looking for transformation in our schools and hospitals using the arts to find common ground, a place where healing and reconciliation has a chance.”
It’s about getting diverse people together to imagine what is possible”