A quick email from Jem at Eaton Waygood Associates in the UK offered a couple of pics of a current project for a gateway for Blackburn. As I’m a sucker for anyone named Jem, I thought I’d drop a few photos into a post. From the email: “The work has a masonry side, (drystone wall, local stone) and a green side (ivy growing in coir troughs at various levels) The work is a gateway both for the town of Blackburn and for the Pennine landscape.”

:: images via Eaton Waygood

A little digging came up with some addition information on the project, including a link to a longer narrative and plan graphic… some additional info: “The scheme will be celebrated by a welcoming piece of artwork as the main gateway feature to the Roundabout opposite the Red Lion Public House. North West based artists, Eaton Waygood Associates have been commissioned to create a piece of work that is reflective of the local area. The work takes the form of a dry stone wall orientated along the axis of the road leading to the town centre. The ‘wall’ rises from the edges of the roundabout to a height of some 6 metres above road level and is cleft in two at its midpoint to form a cutting. Hanging above this cutting and supported from each face of the wall is a sphere constructed from intersecting steel plates. The reverse side of the “wall” is clad in ivy forming a green surface, again with the cutting and the sphere dominating the centre of the work. Lighting forms a major part of the work with both the sphere and wall illuminated to dramatic effect.”

:: image via CB Partners

And from some of the news articles the project, much like all art – has recieved mixed results.

:: image via Lancashire Telegraph