Your Space Or Mine
Introducing London’s smallest sculpture garden (…we think): Dancing in the Shadow of Henry
Dancing in the Shadow of Henry is the latest endeavour in our ongoing Your Space Or Mine program of creative urban interventions that seek to variously enliven UK cityscapes and promote both critical and entertaining engagement. BUILDHOLLYWOOD has invited Sarah Staton – acclaimed artist and Head of Sculpture at the RCA – to inaugurate and thereafter bi-annually curate a display of original, diverse and intriguing works that prompt passers-by to pause, look and wonder. Staton’s Chicken and Egg is a brilliantly dynamic and colourful introductory sculpture.
Your Space Or Mine activities serve not only to support both emerging and established artists, but also inventively use street spaces to inspire and energise local neighbourhoods. This open-ended Dancing in the Shadow of Henry project looks forward to developing a relationship with St John the Divine Primary School, Camberwell with a programme of artist led workshops commencing in September 2023.
Henry Moore’s Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 3 is sited in the nearby Brandon Estate, hence the project title. And Moore’s Perry Green studio garden in Hertfordshire was also an inspiration for planting out this pocket sculpture park. Gardener David Doherty used perennial and evergreen plants including ivy, laurel and sea buckthorn to create an understated but beautiful green and silver shimmering surround for what promises to be an exciting new addition to public art in London.
17.07.23
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