'Bransholme Seed Cloud', Bransholme, Hull

WHT & T, BRANSHOLME, HULL Bransholme Seed Cloud, 2011 - 2012 Bransholme – a hill surrounded by water The concept underpinning this artwork is derived from the geology, topography, biodiversity, social history & heritage of the area known in Domesday times as ‘Sudtone’ & now referred to as Bransholme or Sutton-in-Holderness. Multifarious strands of influence are brought together in a maelstrom cloud. This apparently chaotic drift of objects however contains a signature. It is at once, the past, present & future of the school & its locale, cast as a seed cloud; the school’s ‘dna’: a cloud of opportunity & growing potential; working ‘in community’ on this new site. Within its layered form, the cloud yields a narrative made up of abstract & other more identifiable shapes; seeds, spores, pollen, diatoms, dust. These microscopic & tiny forms are enmeshed with larger drawings of stones, leaves, animals, flowers & insects. Abstract forms evoke the visual language of maps & refer directly to the topography, geology & husbandry of the local area. Out of the maelstrom cloud spins a formal garden, an island of cultivation & order, built from the chaos of the cloud; colour beginning to bring it to life. The work was commissioned by Andrew Knight for the Esteem Consortium, to celebrate the building of two new schools sharing one super-site at Bransholme, Hull. The work is digtally printed onto optically clear vinyl and applied to the curtain wall glazing screen which connects the two schools. The artwork was manufactured and installed by Artwork Solutions Ltd of Bristol.