PASW Regional Newsletter: Spring 2000
@t Bristol
@t Bristol, which opens next Spring, will be a unique attraction, bringing science, nature and art to life in a world-class setting on Bristol's Harbourside. Home to the science centre Explore @t Bristol and wildlife centre, Wildscreen @t Bristol, it also includes a magnificent series of open spaces and new public art works. Reflection and Exploration are key themes of the public art elements and work commissioned from a variety of artists show this.
Already the first work has been installed. For the new underground car park, work was created by Tim Noble and Sue Webster in white carnival lights on stainless steel. Being text works on each of the two underground levels, they read Everythingwaswonderful. Arewehappynow? Constantly shimmering, these works stimulate the viewer to work out the sentences and to ask questions of themselves and their environment, as well as being very beautiful in an exceptional car park.
William Pye will shortly begin the final part of Aquarena, composed of water terraces, jets and arcs dominating the vast New World Square, along with Zenith by David Ward, a series of embedded lights in an elongated figure of eight which salutes the Analemma, an ancient means of noon time keeping.
Other works commissioned for @t Bristol include the Rhinoceros Beetle, a landmark sculpture by Nicola Hicks; representational sculptures of famous Bristolians, Thomas Chatterton, William Penn and William Tyndale by Lawrence Holofcener and Swimming Dogs and Shelly by Cathie Pilkington. In addition there are plans for narrative pieces by Annie Lovejoy and Folake Shoga and a physics-based piece by sculptor Simon Thomas drawing on the work of Bristolian Physics Noble Prize winner, Paul Dirac.
Anneli Douglas, @t Bristol, Tel: 0117 909 2000