Anatomy of Time
Twomey, C. 2024. Anatomy of Time. London Ceramics Research Group.
| Title | Anatomy of Time |
|---|---|
| Creators | Twomey, C. |
| Description | Artist Clare Twomey has created a new public artwork that transforms the Bond Street West Elizabeth Line station. The sculptural façade seems to emerge from the ground and climb the southwestern corner of Grosvenor’s new 65 Davies Street development. The artwork, Anatomy of Time, commissioned by Grosvenor, is based on the local ancient plants and water ways is a vast yet gentle composition of the local botanical narratives indented into the façade of the building creating an artwork that is embedded into the building and flows out of its terracotta façade. The placement of the leaves that cut through the building piers flow and lead our gaze towards the sky and the surrounding trees. Tracing the path of the River Tyburn, and carved into the surface of the building, the leaf shapes sustain a relationship with the architecture and local area. The leaf patterns were inspired by William Curtis’s Flora Londinensis, a pioneering study of urban nature that recorded 430 flowering species within a 10-mile radius of London.
“To some extent, this work was an extension of past works and of my environmental concerns and the understanding that if we nurture nature, we might not lose it. I hope it will help people to see that if we work hard, we can still find nature, even in central London. Maybe they’ll walk past it, or maybe they’ll have a favourite leaf, or read up on all the leaves, and look at their neighbourhood differently.”– Clare Twomey, interviewed by Alice Rawsthorne 25mtrs tall |
| Keywords | Ceramics, industry collaboration, craft, art, architecture |
| Year | 01 Jan 2024 |
| 2024 | |
| Files | Image credit Jack Hobhouse Measurements 25mtrs x 15mtrs Rights Clare Twomey Media type Image |
| Place of publication | London |
| Funder | Grosvenor |
| Web address (URL) | https://futurecity.co.uk/portfolio/anatomy-of-time/ |
