'Grown in Wisewood' Art Project

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

The finished artworks...

So everything is installed now and settling in well.

Below are links to download maps of where you can find all the artworks.
Wisewood Art Map
Wadsley Art Map
Loxley Art Map

And here are some images of the artworks, finished and sitting proudly in place...

'Grown in Wisewood' art opening

Thanks to everyone who came along for the opening event in Wisewood in April.

It was a fabulous event with David Blunkett MP visiting with his wonderful guide dog, Cosby, and we had the BBC there filming the event and the Sheffield Star news team covering the story.

Friday, 30 March 2012

Opening Event

We are very excited to announce the opening event for all the artworks...come along, help us celebrate and bring all your friends and family.

The animal benches are nearly finished...

So here's a sneeky peak of the animal benches before they get installed over the next few week...

The planters have arrived...

We installed the planters and had some help planting them up...remember to look after them and check out the beautiful carving on them.

Oh, and we made the papers. Click on the link to have a look: http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/felled-trees-turn-into-community-art-1-4271188

So what's this all about...?

Things are happening in the areas of Wisewood, Loxley and Wadsley and this site is here to let you know what's going on.

Pennine Housing are doing some streetscene improvements in the area and are working with Planit landscape Architects, who have been appointed to implement a range of new street improvements.

The overall aims are:

• Provide a high quality public realm improvement scheme, which proves to be robust yet attractive.

• Strengthen the character of the neighbourhood

• Improve the day to day well being of the residents by creating practical design led solutions to the public realm issues

• Create a sense of ownership of the public realm leading to enhanced community safety and well being

• Create positive perceptions of the area both from within and outside

• Enhance the hierarchy of the streets

• Attract investment

• Supportive of the Green Flag design objectives

In addition, Ana Ospina and Cara Flynn from Fourth Wall Creations will be working as the Artists on this project with the aim to work with groups in the community to feed ideas into the design of the public realm.

This role is a vital in strengthening the sense of place for residents through the medium of art whether it be through contemporary art, workshops or installations providing something of quality, character and identity for the communities.