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Celebrating Cleddau Reaches

4 July 2018|Capital Commission, News, Studio Weave, Studio Weave|

Saturday 30 June 2018 marked the official end of the 3 year programme and provided an opportunity to celebrate Cleddau Reaches by Studio Weave - the town's first permanent public artwork in sixty years. Musicians and makers, canoeists and civic leaders joined forces to celebrate the story of the sculptures on a scorching day that [...]

Cleddau Reaches

29 June 2018|Capital Commission, News, Projects, Studio Weave, Studio Weave|

At the beginning of the capital commission, we were prompted to develop a site specific artwork for Haverfordwest; with a wide range of thoughts and opinions from the ‘Ideas Lab’ consultation that had been conducted. The proposal needed to present a permanent legacy for the programme that had preceded it. But without a fixed brief [...]

Celebrating the river

4 June 2018|Capital Commission, Collaborators, News, Projects, Studio Weave, Studio Weave|

A FREE family-friendly event with music, canoe trips, making workshops and a chance to find out more about the new riverside sculptures. The event will take place along the riverside in the Riverside Shopping Centre and will complete the Lab 3-year art and regeneration initiative supported by the Arts Council of Wales through the Ideas: [...]

Capital Commission: Technical Sketchbook

27 June 2017|Capital Commission, News, Studio Weave|

Our ‘Emerging Concept’ to “encourage wildlife who are natural residents of the reaches back into the town, and the urban residents of the town out into the reaches” contains inherent dualities between natural and manmade, and between the reaches and the town. In developing our ideas to explore the notion of a ‘habitable river infrastructure’ [...]

Capital Commission: Emerging Concept

21 June 2017|Capital Commission, News, Studio Weave|

Our conversations so far with the Confluence partners, with stakeholder groups and with the people we have met in Haverfordwest, about the nature of  a new public artwork have been much broader and far- reaching than we could have expected at the outset. During our visits to Haverfordwest– and thanks to the extensive range of [...]

Capital Commission: Exploring Narrative

14 April 2017|Capital Commission, News, Studio Weave|

During our visits to Haverfordwest we have met with a wide variety of residents , and enjoyed acquiring local perspectives on the historical development, and sense of place in the town.

 Whilst Janetka Platun’s commission focussed upon ‘Searching For The Centre’, our attention has been on building an understanding of the relationship of the town [...]

Capital Commission: Introducing Studio Weave

31 March 2017|Capital Commission, News, Studio Weave|

Studio Weave are an RIBA Chartered Architecture Practice based in London. Together with our partners Architecture 00 [zero zero], we enjoy collaborating in a shared environment where strategic, urban and social designers, architects, programmers and economists practice design beyond its traditional borders. For each of our projects, we aim to craft an ever-evolving blend of [...]