Scartworks is a company that creates individual pieces for clients throughout the UK, ranging from large steel sculptures, to mosaics and ceramics. They specialise in artwork for public spaces and are hired by private corporations, local authorities and community groups.
They have also worked for some big-name companies such as Morrisons, The National Trust, and London City Hall. They are linked to my project as they also have to interact with their partners, to find out what their brief is and what limitations they may have. They say their approach is site-specific, as to create the work they do they have to respond to the space that is available and the surrounding landscape and environment. The company do this so they can base their work on the surroundings so it doesn't look out of place.
Works they have completed include a stainless steel photographic screen on the side of Blackburn Railway Station, street mosaics, and a sculpture inside a shopping centre. They have also completed commissioned art such as images of London on panels to go inside the London City Hall. For the photographic screen, their website describes how the company had to work closely with the consultant engineers of the project, and the main site contractors. They also had to do their research for the actual content as the images are of people well known for being connected with Blackburn, and who reflect the industrial past of the town.
For the shopping centre sculpture, the company interviewed over 100 people in and around the area asking their opinion on what needed to be done. The people decided they wanted something modern and contemporary, and that would show the identity of the town. From this, the designer decided to use the idea of DNA, which is what the model was designed around. The DNA sculpture was then placed in the central atrium and can be seen from all three floors. I think this is very relevant to my project as they interviewed and interacted with a lot of people involved and who would be affected by the work.
I have learned from this research to consider the surroundings of the placement of future work to make it tie in. Also to ask people involved what their opinions are, and to consider who would be directly affected.
Source: http://www.scartworks.co.uk/
You have produced a lot of relevant material, the research is wide-ranging [all from the internet], with many independently found practitioners, international, national and local, who work with found materials or collaboratively with others in a significant way. You showed initiative, persistence and by adding more examples recently, continuing engagement with the project. All the research is properly collated and clearly organised. Presentation is thoughtful and coherent with ability to enlarge the photographic references. You have described each example, the ideas behind the works and their purpose articulately and explained the relevance of the selection to your work and the project theme. You have included the research sources, but Robert Bradford’s is missing. The summary at the end explains the similarities and differences described.
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