We’ve recently been doing some work with Heidi Baker and the second year students on the Extended Diploma in Graphic Design course at Pembrokeshire College, who have been helping us to think clearly about how ‘Confluence’ communicates about itself and how we can communicate positively about Haverfordwest. The insight they have provided has been revealing and as a result of their advice, [...]
Designs for the set of five Haverfordwest festival flags, made by A&E Adventures an inspirational local company based in Talbenny near Little Haven. During March 2015, A&E ran a series of design workshops with seven Year 5 and 6 classes from Haverfordwest primary schools to inspire the design process. Each flag is based on a [...]
Newton’s Cottage is an exciting new art commission on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park designed by Rotterdam-based art/architecture collective Observatorium. This sculpture echoes the form of the lock keepers cottage that once sat at Carpenters Road Lock – a historically significant lock over the River Lea located in the heart of the Park. Named after C. [...]
…could be as simple as changing a few signs. The Bristol Post. July 21, 2014 An offbeat mystery sign in Clifton which was fitted to a lamp post … has apparently been stolen. It is believed to have disappeared from Worlds End Lane sometime earlier today. The sign was disguised as a normal ‘No Waiting’ [...]
The Go and see visit to Bristol marked the end of a 15 week intensive research and development stage in the Confluence project. Twenty people from Haverfordwest made the trip to Bristol to explore how, under leadership of George Ferguson, the city’s inspirational elected mayor, Bristol continues to place the arts at the centre of [...]
Just one of a number of Art in the Public Realm projects that a group of people from Haverfordwest will get to have a look at on a ‘Go and see’ visit to Bristol in early July. Seeds of Change: Floating Ballast Seed Garden – by Brazillian artist Maria Thereza Alves. Working with the University [...]
Designed by AOR architects Viewpoint, is a floating structure sitting over the Regent’s Canal on the edge of the Camley Street nature reserve. It provides a habitat for birds and bats, as well as an outdoor classroom where people can learn about the surrounding flora and fauna.
‘The Pinch’ – a library and community centre in China. Children can clamber onto the curved roof of this community library in China, which architects John Lin and Olivier Ottevaere designed for an earthquake-damaged village in Yunnan Province.
Ruby’s museum – just one of a set of fantastic models created at the ‘Hands on’ workshops in the Riverside market – part of our programme of research and development that will inform our stage two bid to the Ideas People Place programme. Ruby’s model, complete with its rooftop park had echoes of Birmingham’s brand [...]
St. Anne’s Church, New Hedges. One of a declining number of “tin tabernacles” – churches quickly constructed of corrugated iron and at low cost. This one was restored a few years ago with the aid of a grant.
