156-176 St John Street
Art and architecture collaboration
156-176 ST JOHN STREET, LONDON
2007 – ongoing
CLIENT:Carrot
PARTNERS:
Rolfe Judd Architects
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Bespoke property developer, Carrot, appointed Futurecity in 2007 to curate and manage a major art and architecture collaboration with architects Rolfe Judd at their new mixed-use scheme on St John Street, responding to their Section 106 obligation for public art. Futurecity shortlisted three international artists - Paul Morrison, Simeon Nelson and Simon Periton - to respond to a detailed brief which asked them to create a work to be embedded within the façade of one of the main buildings in the scheme.
Paul Morrison won the commission to produce his work 'Oxeye'. The graphic, monochrome image will be embedded into the anodized aluminium façade panels that wrap around the west and south elevations of the building. Foremost, a single cropped image of a huge flower in bloom will cover the entire façade and while horizon-line of the building will be depict a landscape of contrasting scale, containing silhouetted images of trees connected by a linear horizon.
The organic, natural subject matter of the flower and the trees which are typical motifs in Paul's work, create a startling contrast with the more linear, regimented, urban architecture of both the rest of the St John Street development and the general feel of this part of Clerkenwell.
Paul Morrison won the commission to produce his work 'Oxeye'. The graphic, monochrome image will be embedded into the anodized aluminium façade panels that wrap around the west and south elevations of the building. Foremost, a single cropped image of a huge flower in bloom will cover the entire façade and while horizon-line of the building will be depict a landscape of contrasting scale, containing silhouetted images of trees connected by a linear horizon.
The organic, natural subject matter of the flower and the trees which are typical motifs in Paul's work, create a startling contrast with the more linear, regimented, urban architecture of both the rest of the St John Street development and the general feel of this part of Clerkenwell.