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David Batchelor - Evergreen #Sculpture #Art

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Glasshouse at Skip Garden

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Berkeley Square Gardens

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Paddy Molloy's art installation Crossing Time at Granary Square, King's Cross #crossing #time

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David Batchelor - Evergreen

David Batchelor’s Evergreen provides a vibrancy of colours as it adds a glowing green in between buildings made of steel and glass. It’s hidden away but truly comes out during the dark hours of the night as it illuminates encouraging people to explore More London. It remains completely the same during season changes as the trees around it changes.

 

Skip Garden

Skip Garden is an award-winning project run by Global Generation, a charity providing opportunities for young people to create a sustainable future. It gives a set of invaluable skills for young people building upon gardening skills and even a business acumen. It is partly funded by the Big Lottery and the materials are provided by The King’s Cross Partnership, BAM Nuttall, Carillion and Kier.

Initially, Skip Garden was positioned in different spots in King’s Cross and has now just above Lewis Cubitt Park and the King’s Cross Pond. It used to be garden plots built into skips and has expanded by the local community. Some of the structures on site were created by students of the Bartlett School of Architecture in collaboration with Global Generation.

The garden was built collaboratively between children as young as 7 years to businesses, local families, teenagers, students, architects and engineers in helping build and providing resources to bring it together. Recycled materials were used to build the garden with most of the materials found from the construction sites at King’s Cross.

The plot grows fruits and vegetables such as apples trees and pumpkins. The garden is for the most part self-sustaining employing such practices as aerobic and worm composting, fertilising with comfrey juice, companion and rotational planting, rain water harvesting and bee-hive maintenances. The produce from the garden are harvested and used to create delicious food at the Skip Garden Kitchen.

Earthbag Coolstore - the structure made from recycled timber was created by Aleesandro Conning-Rowland of Bartland School of Architecture. The structure is layered with recycled coffee sacks from a local coffee rostery and each one is filled with earth. A cooling effect is provided from the evaporation of the moisture of the bags and helpfully collects rainwater to keep the plants within the structure hydrated. Ventilation is added in through the designed stacks that give the structure the maximum area to absorb the sun keeping the produce fresh.

100 Hands Wall is created by Christophe Dembinski and features a walled space made entirely from earth, showcasing the sustainable ways we can adopt in construction.

Rain Loos by Carrie Coningsby uses reclaimed railway sleepers and boarding are stacked against each other to create two cubicles. Water is collected from the rain water streamed into a membrane covering a steel beam, which is collected into the cisterns of the toilet.

Glass House is created by Rachael Taylor used for a growing space and hosts Twilight Gardening sessions. The skirtings of the Glass House is made from low-tech curtain wall made from recycled sash windows. These are held up with scaffold board wall that leans against a shipping container.

The Chicken Coup is created by Valerie Vyvial which completes the link to the closed system of the ecological cycle of the garden by bringing in a structure to house three chickens. At the centre of the structure houses a 2.4m long silver birch tree from Hampstead Heath. The structure is built with bamboo put into place with steel fixing cast.

The Grey Water Dining, created by Yangyan Liu, utilised a small reed bed system at the back of the kitchen, which cleanse the waste water from the kitchen ready for watering. This design provides a wetland dining area. Pedal pumps are used to lift the filtered water through a water storage tank which is then used for gravity-led irrigation.

The Welcome Shelter is created by Charlie Redman. It is situated by the Skip Garden kitchen and due to its mechanism, it can provide shelter through changeable cover.

#SkipGarden

Berkeley Sqare Gardens

Berkeley Square Gardens is a green space in Mayfair, London, which dates back to the 1740’s. It houses different sculptures which are rotated to different pieces yearly. The garden has come quite a way from its hey-day.

In 1727, Berkeley Square Garden was built as an enclosed space. It had a water meadow that ran off the River Tyburn which was situated just south of the square. The Vestry minutes referred to meadow as the “the Common Sewer”.

 

Arrangements were made through an agreement between the 4th Lord Berkeley, his son and two carpenters Cook and Hilliard, who developed the square. 3 ½ acres were enclosed on the south and west end by “dwarf wall and wooden rails and pallisadoes set thereon.”

Emily Young - Earth/Cassandra II (2014)

There was no upkeeping of the garden of laying it out and keeping the garden tidy, as no one took responsibility of the garden. It was then enclosed for strict access during the mid-1740s.

 

During the 1760s, the railings and walls of the garden were taken down and by 1766, the garden “had gone to ruin”. An Act of Parliament was granted to enclose and adorn the square as proposed by residents who took it into their own hands to plan for fencing and laying of the garden. In the same year of 1766, the act gave residents the power to “raise money to pave, light and adorn the space”, which caused the rates to rise for the maintenance of the square.

“The plan approved at Gwynn’s Tavern in Berkeley Square. There is a grass plot in the middle, a gravel walk around, and iron pallisadoes; but there is no statue or bason in the middle. The undertaker of the work has engaged to finish it completely for £7,000.”

 

The following year, fences were up and the grounds laid with the layout kept to the original. A report from 1767 says that the square became “a handsome green walk next the railing, then a terras walk, and the rest laid out as a grass plot”. London Plane trees were later planted in 1789 by Edward Bourverie and is said to be the oldest Plane trees in London.

A statue of George III was erected but was taken down and replaced by a pump house/gazebo, which still stands there today. The statue was an equestrian sculpture cast in lead made by French sculptor Beaupre. But due to weather conditions and the weight of the rider, the legs of the horse snapped off, consequently causing it to be removed in 1827.

31 years later, Henry (3rd Marquess of Lansdowne) commissioned a nympy statue created by Alexander Munro in 1858, which was created of Carrara marble. It was located on the south side outside of the park offering water to any passer-by. It was later relocated inside the square when a path was laid leading up to the pump house. The water feature was restored in 1994.

During the World War II in 1941, the railings were removed and the square used for armaments manufacture for the units of the US army. After the war, the City Council reinstated it back as a garden, removing any air-raid shelters and replanting the lawns.  

In 1977, the Berkeley Square Ball was held in commemoration of the Queen Silvere Jubilee, which ran through the 1980’s and raised £800,000. The square is reference in Eric Maschwitz’s wartime ballad A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square.

Paddy Molloy - Crossing Time

Crossing Time is an art installation by Paddy Molloy, commissioned by the House of Illustration. The installation, situated at Granary Square from 13 February to 10 March 2016, turns on from 6pm to 10pm.

The installation at 4 metres employs a level of interaction as the sun goes down. The installation is motion-activated as it changes the sequence of images as a person passes by it. The installation displays dramatic images, which the sequence is unique to each interaction.

The installation takes inspiration from King's Cross, it's history and landscape, especially of the King's Cross monument. The monument was built in 1830, and contained a camera obscure that viewed the ever-changing landscape of King's Cross. This work is a reference to that as it casts a new "eye" on the landscape.

A+: 100 years of visual communication by women at Central Saint Martins

The A+ exhibition at the Central Saint Martin's is a striking exhibition with over 50 female students and staff from the institute. The exhibition highlights in bold form, the disparency between the rate of women entering the graphic profession following their studies and aims to bring to the forefront of the contribution they bring to the partition. The pieces are gathered from a century of works done by women dating back to the 20th century. Starting on 23 February, the exhibition will be running on to 23 March 2016.

Henry Moore - Large Spindle Piece

Henry Moore’s Large Spindle Piece is inspired by Michelangelo’s painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Standing at 3 metres high, the sculpture is now against the backdrop of the Grade I building of St. Pancras Railway Station.

 

It was installed and chosen as the piece not only for the complimentary backdrop with the station building, but as a way to deter anyone from sitting on or climbing the sculpture. The piece was previously stood at the British Council in the Spring Gardens near Trafalgar Square from 1981 to 1996. It has since moved to the Henry Moore Foundation at Perry Green and then the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. It is on loan from the Henry Moore Foundation to the Network Rail for at least 5 years.

Moore was inspired by a rough black pebble found in the fields around his home in Perry Green, Hertfordshire. Several versions were spawned with some found across the world in USA and Japan. The sculpture is made of bronze.

Tate Modern - Empty Lot

Abraham Cruzvillegas is a Hyundai Commision 2015 installation as part of a partnership between Hyundai and Tate. Cruzvillegas’s Empty Lot uses plots of soil from across London to form this installation which is held in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern from 13 October 2015 to 3 April 2016.

The geometric design is composed of triangular plant plots forming across two platforms. The triangle shapes are a response to the rectangular shape of the hall, reminiscent of Russian avant-garde artists.

The installation is made from reusable and recycled materials such as the scaffold which is to be reused after the installation. The wooden beams and metals poles are used from recycled materials. The plant plots contain soil and compost found across London parks crossing areas of Peckham, Haringey, Westminster and other places. The unpredictable possibilities inspires to provide questions about the city interacting with nature as Cruzvillegas puts it as “hope and expectation”. Moreover, the installation remains untouched except by the rays of light from the lamps and when it is watered adding to concept of different possibilities.

#EmptyLot

House of Vans - Polyphonic Playground

The Polyphonic Playground installation is housed at the House of Vans in London from 30 January up until 21 February 2016. It is interactive sound installation by Studio PSK, commissioned by the Fashion Space Gallery and London College of Fashion. It was developed by musician Reeps One.

The installation is inspired by the joys of the playground as a child, which comes complete with a slide, a climbing frame and swings. The installation employs advanced music engineering made with conductive paint, tape and yarn to create MIDI triggers, visible on the steps and the slide. The swing is interwoven with electronic textile.

#HouseofVans #PolyphonicPlayground 
 
 

The Mayor Gallery presents Calculations, Permutations, Notations - LAb[au]

The Mayor Gallery presents calculations, permutations, notations with all artworks created by LAb[au]. The exhibition coincided with Lumiere London 2016 festival in which Lab[au] is featured with their art installation binaryWAVES. The exhibition ran from 13 – 31 January 2016 at the .

The exhibition, very much like binaryWAVES, employs technology for the most part of the exhibition to animate their work as it plays on the geometry, shape and lighting to create different allusions and added textured layers to the artworks.

The pieces that feature origami has a subtlety to them which is further reinforced with the slender and occasional movements as a flap moves across playing on the surrealistic themes that run throughout the exhibition. More to the this theme is the concept of technology as also appears in print as well in oneOfABillionDays which features a series of alphanumerics that dances and dazzles upon the eye. LAb[au] presents the idea of “algorithmic logic” to challenge the idea of the contemporary vision and appeal.

mosaique 4x4x4 bw

signaltoNoisePermutation

origamiSquare 6x6x4

oneOfABillionDays

Origami Square 6x6x1

origamiSnubSquare 17x1