Public art
ºù«ÍÞapp boasts an extensive collection of public artworks throughout the town.
Many of the works are site specific, designed with great care by professional artists to reflect their location. Others are inspired by regeneration projects and community need with residents contributing to the creative process.
60 Arrows
Gary Breeze
Location: Ifield Avenue
60 Arrows brings together ºù«ÍÞapp’s modern and historical connections with transport, journeys and travel and is designed to be seen while on the move.
Active ºù«ÍÞapp
Sharon Elphick
Location: K2 ºù«ÍÞapp
The first in a series of artworks for K2 ºù«ÍÞapp, ‘Elastica’ involved photographing Hawth Gymnastics Club in various gymnastic poses. These images were mirrored and repeated.
‘Red, Yellow, Green and Blue’ involved photographing ºù«ÍÞapp Town Football Club at two separate home games.
‘K2 ºù«ÍÞapp Climb’ shows climbing sessions at the centre. The climbing wall was chosen for the patterns created by the multi-coloured climbing holds.
Aerial
Laura Johnston
Location: K2 ºù«ÍÞapp
The piece was inspired by physical movement. The aim was to create a dynamic form that animates the space through the projection of light and colour. Dichroic glass changes colour depending on light and angle of view.
CD Bollards
David Watson
Location: K2 ºù«ÍÞapp
The bollards aim to create a piece of artwork that is functional, integrates with the building and explores the issues of waste reuse.
The CDs are made from polycarbonate, the bollards use stainless steel and the lights are solar powered.
ºù«ÍÞapp’s Sporting Excellence
Ryan Hughes and Emma Mitchell
Location: K2 ºù«ÍÞapp
ºù«ÍÞapp’s sporting heroes are celebrated on a wall within the leisure centre, with a graphical portrait and information plaque outlining their career highlights. Created and funded by ºù«ÍÞapp Borough Council.
Community project
Bruce Williams
Location: Langley Green shopping parade
A series of intricate artworks created using high-tech fabrication techniques. The piece incorporates paving, seating and bollards and was created with the Langley Green community and schools.
The project was part of the regeneration of Langley Green’s parade of shops. The materials are robust and manipulated to play with light, creating effects that are delicate and subtle.
Flying Spiral
Ray Smith
Location: The Hawth roundabout
The piece’s form is a large cortex self-weathering steel spiral peaking with a flying figure. A number of possible interpretations can be suggested for this piece including flight, dancer or music note.
Giant Football
Gordon Young
Location: The Peoples Pension Stadium
A fun, pace-making sculpture linking the ºù«ÍÞapp road entrance to The Peoples Pension Stadium and ºù«ÍÞapp Town Football Club.
Glacial Boulders
Jane Fordham and David Parfitt
Location: The Broadway
The boulders are intended as a symbolic monument to the life of the town and its communities.
Individuals were encouraged to engage in the design process by providing their signatures which were used in decorative designs engraved into the nine boulders set within a landscaped enclave at the eastern side of the town centre.
Glass Columns
David Watson
Location: K2 ºù«ÍÞapp
Blue bottles and green bottles came from a local restaurant and the rest came from bottle banks. The window glass came from damaged glass salvaged from skips at the K2 ºù«ÍÞapp building site and a ºù«ÍÞapp Glazing company.
The piece promotes a feeling of growth, aspiration, achievement and a fascination for using recycled materials to create public artworks.
Graffiti Cube
Bewbush Youth Centre and Julian Johnson
Location: Bewbush
Young people from Bewbush created imagery inspired from their neighbourhood and helped paint this popular piece of street art.
Lion
Christian Funnell
Location: Tilgate Nature Centre
The Lion sculpture stands as a symbol of nature. From a distance the sculpture has the monumental presence of a 19th century, patriotic sculpture, however on closer inspection this dark mass is constructed from many planes. The viewer’s paradox is whether the sculpture is a collection of strips of metal or the image of a lion.
Making a Mark
Sam Murray and Rachel Cowell
Location: Broadfield Barton
The mosaic was created through extensive workshops with the local community and schools. The piece uses imagery of a map to interlink Broadfield Barton and a theme of hands, which connects people of the neighbourhood who use the busy shopping parade.
Making a Mark
Steven Follen
Location: Bewbush
Part of the Bewbush regeneration scheme, it features 40 paving blocks containing metal profiles based on drawings made and developed by residents based on the themes of ‘nature’ and ‘dispersal’.
Martlets Tree
Peter Parkinson and Richard Quinnell
Location: ºù«ÍÞapp Library
The Martlets Tree celebrates the heraldic origin of 'The Martlets' with over a hundred tiny Martlet birds.
The 'Tree' features four key images:
- Hammers
- Agriculture
- Stagecoach
- Aeroplane
Swans Landing
David Norris
Location: Bewbush Millpond
'Swans Landing' depicts a gathering of stainless steel swans landing on the waters of the Bewbush Millpond.
The Clouds are High and the Sky is Wide
Kate Munro
Location: Maidenbower
The Clouds are High and the Sky is Wide is inspired by a line from a Hilaire Belloc poem. Three stretching figures from 'bronzed' fibreglass resin mounted on oak trunks, which turn gently towards the wind.
The Golden Tree
Joss Smith
Location: Historic High Street
The sculpture’s base is a York sandstone acorn cup to depict the Jurassic limestone under the area and the fact that ºù«ÍÞapp was once forest.
The middle section, a granite anvil shape, represents the long history of iron working in the area, while the huge polished bronze axe-head above is the same shape as several which have been found locally.
The sculpture is topped by two crows to remind us that ºù«ÍÞapp was originally called Crow Lea, a place of crows.
The Vessel
Janine Creaye
Location: Walled Garden at Tilgate Park
A sculpture made up of base, pedestal and vessel featuring intricate relief work reflecting the four paths that lead its location. The imagery includes horses, referencing to the original building of the Tilgate Estate and the horses that were once resident in the gardens.
Willow
Reece Ingram
Location: The Hawth Theatre
Willow is a 13ft totem pole carved from oak situated on the wooded area immediately outside the front of the theatre.
The totem pole inspired sculpture tells a story using carvings of The Winds in the Willows characters, Mole, Ratty, Badger and Toad, making reference to the woodland nearby.
Wooden Cows and Totem Pole
Simon Groves
Location: Worth Park
West Sussex based chainsaw artist depicts the heritage and landscape of the well-loved Worth Park in both of these pieces. The cows are located in the meadow where jersey cows grazed in the 1850s.
The totem pole stands in front of Ridley’s Court and brings together elements of the heritage and natural world. The projects were funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Wooden Sculptures
Simon Groves
Location: Tilgate Nature Centre
A trail of fun, life-like wood carvings which enliven the paths and trails around Tilgate Nature Park. Tactile and interactive for children and families, the sculptures were created on-site with timber located from the park.