Many commissions share a common brief requiring the artist to propose a creative intervention which will enhance access to a stretch of land in relation to its built environment. The artist’s role often requires research, consultation and collaboration within such regeneration projects and all projects here were inspired by the wide horizons of the sites and as well as their intriguing history of use.

Although the design concepts were never implemented, Bute Avenue, Cardiff shows the artist’s crucial investigative process within a large urban design team aspiring to reconnect the city of Cardiff with its waterfront. Drawing, text, photography and collage leading to a colour and materials palette illustrate the artist’s collaborative contributions.

Although more modest in scale but also providing new access to land, the recently constructed garden space at Dykebar Hospital near Glasgow, shows that a relatively small intervention can provide a much appreciated transforming asset for a community.

Likewise in Fraserburgh, a site specific art and landscape work provides a dedicated pedestrian route from the small town centre to the esplanade while also framing remarkable views of the skyline and the North Sea. Getting some protection from the Atlantic from the islands of Bute, Arran and Jura on the west coast, Home Garden begins to document the cultivation of a garden out of an exposed piece of rough coastal field.

 

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