Bishop Fox Bridge, Taunton School
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Bishop Fox Bridge, Taunton School
Public Arts Commission for Bishop Fox’s Community School. The text is from a poem by James Crowden who lives locally. The lines are laid out to give a suggestion of the movement of waves on the sea.
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Davis House, Victoria
5m tall inscription in Portland stone in the main entrance of a new office development. This large inscription features 2 intertwined texts, one a Kenyan proverb and the other a quote from Frank Lloyd Wright. It brings together two strands of modern life, one a concern for the environment and our need to look after…
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St Paul’s Cathedral Alignment Pavement
7m long in various Purbeck marbles and Welsh Slate. This large public art installation just outside the South Transept of St Paul’s Cathedral makes good use of various different types of natural stone to illustrate the change in alignment between the Old, pre-fire, Cathedral and the present one built by Sir Christopher Wren. The intention…
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Alleyn’s School 2009
Foundation stone in Longtown Red with naturally deckled edge. The inscription was designed to fit to the natural shape of the stone.
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Alleyn’s School 2007
Nebrasina limestone from Italy. While most of the work in the studio is carved onto native stones, the studio has also used foreign stones for various purposes. Nebrasina is an Italian limestone with very similar properties to Hoptonwood. Here it has been carved and painted in bright colours which gives it a wonderful density of…
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Latymer Arts Centre 1999
Portland stone painted and gilded. This foundation stone readily demonstrates the expressive potential of fine hand carved lettering. The calligraphic letterforms are admirably suited to their use for an Arts Centre. No mass-produced font would be capable of being moulded to such an individual use.
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Swanage ATC Time Capsule
Purbeck boulder, cut in half with tooled border. This time capsule is for Air Traffic Control in Swanage. The rock appears as if it has been cleaved open to reveal the capsule, or indeed is about to shut on it forever. Like the contents, it is frozen in time, a moment caught and tamed into…
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Mr Justice Alliott Circular State
Welsh Slate painted and gilded. A good demonstration that a foundation stone does not need to be the usual, simple rectangle.
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The Flora Humm Rooms
Portland stone with naturally broken edges. An unusual foundation stone which demonstrates that they do not need to be the usual machine made rectangle. Note the lettering which follows the outline of the stone, providing a foil for the main, central inscription and which lends structure to something which could easily have been formless.