BOW

Bronze sculpture, furniture, wall bronze, railings and frottage pavers

South Gloucester (install Autumn 2024)

A series of artworks inspired by local wildflowers including; a 4M high bronze clover sculpture, vitreous enamel railing and furniture using cyanotype wildflower prints created with the local community and a range of bronze frottage pavers and embedded wall art.

As part of the R&D for this project the artist was awarded Innovate UK funding to undertake material research at the National Composite Centre, where she explored the capabilities of composites for public realm sculpture. The extensive community outreach 'PRESS + PRINT' was conducted during lockdown where residents learned to collect, identify, press and press local plants and flowers. They created botanial cyanotypes from their pressings, exhibited them in a community exhibition and sent their plants to Bristol Museum to be accessioned into their permanent collection as a Community Herbarium.

CLOVER is part of the BOW commission which links the communities of Emersons Green and Lyde Green by the exploration and celebration of local plant life including: bug homes, furniture, railings, plant supports and brass frottage panels.

Clients: South Gloucester Council

Team: Pangolin Editions, Ramboll, Zoe Murphy, Grade & Grain, Scal3d. Lorna Crystal

Project Mentees: Velvet Butler & Alex Taljaard

Research: Avon Wildlife Trust, Gloucester Wildlife Trust, Forest of Avon Trust, BRERC (Bristol and Regional Environmental Records Centre), RSPB, UWE Sustainability and Biodiversity, UWE Community Engagement, Bristol Museum, Friends of Emersons Green Park, National Composites Centre, Creative Youth Network. Live West Housing Association, Sovreign Housing Association, Bromford Housing Association, Mangotsfield Primary, Lyde Green Primary, Emersons Green Primary, Mangotsfield School, Downend School, Downend and Mangotsfield Sixth Form, Emersons Green Community Choir, Emersons Green Library, Emersons Green Village Hall, Lyde Green Community Association, Lincombe Barn (Downend Folk House), Frenchay Village Museum, Kingswood Heritage Museum, Bath & Bristol, Science Park, Green Square Estate, Emerson Green Scouts, Lyde Green Beaver and Cubs, WI Beechmere Belles, Dibden Lane Allotments, Bristol Naturalist Society, Ollie Nemeth, St Barnabas CE VC School, Emersons Green Brownie Pack