Burnham on Crouch Primary School Capital Build Architectural Glass Project . East elevation

Pearman was selected as the artist and consultant for a Capital Build Programme for Burnham on Crouch Primary School. His input involved integrating artwork into the redesign of the school, including an architectural glass application to the new assembly hall main glazing. The glass artworks investigate our relationship toward the built environment. How do we perceive the architecture that surrounds us? How might we (as an architect or an artist might), represent the built environment on a flat two-dimensional surface? What simple and effective illusions can we employ in order to give shapes volume, depth and perspective? Tom has attempted to answer these questions by an artwork representing a sliding puzzle that perhaps asks questions itself. In education, aren’t the right questions more important than the answers…?