Grow, Grow, Grow Your Boat
Date uploaded: November 11, 2015
Futurecity has been appointed to curate and project manage an ambitious public art programme for Berewood, a 516-acre residential development by Grainger PLC within the West of Waterlooville area of South Hampshire.
Winchester City Council, Havant Borough Council and Grainger PLC selected London-based art, landscape and architecture practice 'Wayward' to deliver 'Grow, Grow, Grow Your Boat', a living sculpture of large growing oaks shaped by a sculptural steel frame to create a one-to-one scale ship's hull, based on HMS Victory.
'Grow, Grow, Grow Your Boat' draws on the role of the ancient woodland of the Forest of Bere in supplying oak for shipbuilding from the 16th to 18th centuries. The artwork creates a play space, living architecture and creative sustainable water systems.
Futurecity curators Andy Robinson and Niamh Sullivan led a competition for artists to propose a public art project that brought together artwork in the public realm with community engagement.
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