Major Contracts and Commissions
Featherstar Mantle-St Cuthbert Memorial
I was honoured to create this landmark commission for Lindisfarne Priory: the creation of a new memorial marking the original burial place of Saint Cuthbert, returning a monument to the site after almost 500 years.
Installed on Holy Island in 2023, the work honours one of the North East’s most important historical and spiritual figures.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/17/memorial-to-st-cuthbert-restored-to-lindisfarne-after-nearly-500-years
River Tees revisited
These Pieces were sold as waymarkers along the river Tees They are now part of a sculpture Trail between Piercbridge and Redcar.
They represent travellers in deep time, they are glacial boulders that were on a journey moved by ice and water over hundreds of miles and on a long path down the water shed to the coast. I have picked them up, “glowed them up” and placed them for peoples to see they will still be moving long after humans are no longer around.
THE COMEDY CARPET - BLACKPOOL
The iconic Comedy Carpet is a 2,200-square-meter courtyard made up of 320 individual slabs of concrete made to look like show bills, variety posters and newsprint, all paying homage to British comedians as well as foreign comics who played Blackpool.
This is the result of a twenty year collaborative working relationship with Gordon Young and Why Not Associates.
Album pathway Barrowlands
The Barrowland Park Album Pathway. Created in collaboration with Artist Jim Lambe in 2014 to celebrate the role that the Barrowland Ballroom has played in Glasgow's musical history. Each 'album' on the path is dedicated to a gig by a specific act at the Barrowlands, ranging from Bob Dylan to Primal Scream, and including many iconic home-grown bands such as Simple Minds.
The New Hartley Memorial Pathway
This commemorative pathway dedicates the names of all the victims of the Hester pit disaster on the site of the old pit head with is now a memorial garden.
The path was designed in collaboration with Rob Walton who worked with local people to produce a prose poem that weaves eye witness statements, newspaper accounts and a telegram from Queen Victoria into an emotive walk through the garden to the old pit shaft. The path was designed in black concrete with white letters in a contemporary font for the time. There are also commemorative hedgerow flowers cast into the path.