Newcastle Estates Partnerships
NEP demonstrated a committment to involve and release the creativity of staff when their tennants moved into new office accomodation at Benton Park View, Newcastle, designed by Sir Michael Hopkins and Partners.
Working in partnership with Commissions North and the staff steering group, a series of exciting contemporary artworks were commissioned which engaged personnel on many levels.
Four artists were involved in the project: Effie Burns produced a series of cast glass architectural forms for each office atrium; Jo Coupe took wild flowers from the surrounding site and transformed them into fine bronze casts which refer to Victorian botanical illustrations; glass artist and writer Dominic Fonde asked staff to keep diaries and then etched individual entries onto 24 blown glass vessels; and Diane Welford collected the staff's thought forms and reinvented them as miniature bronze sculptures.
Image courtesy of Sally Ann Norman
Artist(s)
Jo Coupe.
Client
Newcastle Estates Partnership
Location
Newcastle upon Tyne
Professional Team
Jack Spencer
Completion Date
2003
