While the Piled Cumuli Sail Galleon-Like Above
A site-specific permanent public artwork made for housing development Cane Hill Park, in Coulsdon. Commissioned by Barratt David Wilson Homes in 2020.
While the Piled Cumuli Sail Galleon-Like Above
corten, copper, brass, vitreous enamel screenprints on steel, and powder-coated mild steel
2020
Image © Matt Reading
The piece takes the form of a sundial and draws on histories of the site, referencing the former Cane Hill Hospital’s iconic clock tower, which once stood there.
Text-based elements within the work are lifted from volumes of The Cane Hill Chronicle, the former patients’ magazine archived at the Museum of Croydon; and follow from a series of workshops and consultation meetings with local residents, students at Coulsdon College, and artists at Bethlem Gallery. Textures taken from images of local landscape are included as enamel-printed panels, and the natural patination of metals is embraced with the use of un-coated copper and corten, acknowledging the passage time and the changing seasons.
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