Public Practice Statement
In 2004, I established the public art company Sculpture Works with Bernardine Rutter [Printmaker], our combined skills have enabled us to work on a variety of public art commissions over the last 20 years for a number of different Public Realm contexts, such as town and city centers to roadway sites, residential housing developments, public buildings such as schools, hospitals and librarys.
We have worked in collaboration with Town Councils, County Councils, City Councils, Borough Councils and Private Companies, all of these projects have involved in-depth research and community consultation.
We are an award-winning public art company who work with a variety of public spaces and audiences creating dynamic site- specific ‘landmark’ sculptures that capture the essence of each place and audience we work with. Over the last twenty years we, have produced artworks for both urban and rural sites within the private and public sectors in the UK and Ireland.
Through the structuring of appropriate materials and working with a variety of fabrication processes each artwork is made to both visually and physically enhance its location. Our practice in sculpture is informed by a formal and critical knowledge of constructed form, materials, processes and scale. Making is central to how we work it defines both the aesthetic and contextual.
One of our central aims is to establish a relationship between our practice and the context, nature of place, its identity(s), geographic, social aspects, heritage, and community. Many of the public artworks we have created are capable of transcending the specifics of a context and its community and can resonate and connect in many different situations or contexts outside of the originating site of the commission or terms of the brief. We have through co-curation and successful engagement programmes empowered and inspired communities with creative and cultural ideas through participation and discussion.
We enjoy the research process of uncovering lost histories and stories of an area through engagement with communities’ members, businesses, schools, historians in terms of creating a successful artwork for that site.
