Public art in Jennett's Park - submission B

This concept includes:

• rusted steel forms shaped like giant birds, about 6ft high
• two birds mirrored either side of the path and a peacock with its tail in full display
• the works are made from many sheets of 2mm Cor-Ten steel (brown and rusted) bent and welded together with lots of little line and gaps
• the profiles are very sinuous and organic however the construction is very solid
• the sculptures are actually arranged in a circle with 4 small trees, 2 on each side
• as you pass the works they become more abstract and then, they morph into people
• words written on the edges of some of the sheets, such as ‘Braccan Heal’ and ‘Royal Point’ as well as other local and historical names and words

This concept includes:

• a ring of about 20 small birch trees in a circle and at the centre there is a rough grassy, shaggy, rocky mound with little tracks going up and down it
• at the top of the mound there is a small 4 rung steel ladder emerging from the top, a bit like Arthur’s sword in a stone
• thin lines of paint carefully painted on the white bark, just on the inside of the circle facing the mound; there is some on the trunks and some on the branches, and some even on the tiny twigs - the lines are green, grey, white, and a beautiful blue and a tiny bit of red
• from the ladder, the lines line up - sketched out in the tree canopy there is an organic mural of lines swooping up and down and around in a circle

This concept includes:

• 36 tree guards – Oak and Larch with biodegradable paint
• 36 baby Oak trees
• the horizontal top posts of the guards will be painted different colours - we start with a deep red on the left and there is a gradient into orange, yellow and then leaf green on the right that blends into the colour of the meadow
• a narrow path off to the left into the centre of the circle
• in the middle a tree giant – the curved tree limbs have been arranged in such a way to make an enormous figure
• the giant will be 2 or more wind-fallen ancient Oak trees and Corten steel edging sketching the outline of the figure
• the third side of the tree protection is coloured going from green on the left to blue, to a deep indigo almost black, creating a rainbow

This concept includes:

• tall dancing stems of bamboo near to the centre of square, planted in a circle, growing out of 4 curved benches arranged as the 4 quarters of a circle with 4 openings to let you in
• an organic stainless steel sculpture of in the centre of the square that as you approach is a sinuous figure standing at the centre
• the sculpture is abstract, made of bent ribbons with the occasional pebble-like blocks of carved Oak and has it’s hands in the air stretching up to the sky
• looking from different directions, the sculpture becomes a deer with fantastic antlers