EXHIBITION
REVEALS THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE NEW
LACE MARKET SQUARE, April 2007
Nottingham
artist and landscape designer Fiona
Heron is giving the public a sneak
preview of the soon to be open Lace
Market Square.
It's an exciting
timing for the City's squares as Lace
Market Square comes hot on the heels
of the opening of the newly rebuilt
Market Square.
Fiona is half of
the award-winning duo of Wolfgang
and Heron (winner of The Lord Mayor's
Urban Design Award for the Park Rock
landscape on Castle Boulevard.) They
are well known for their innovative,
contemporary designs - they created
the revolving sculpture that stands
in front of the National Ice Centre
and the forthcoming 12 metre feather
"A Spire for Mansfield"
to be unveiled in November.
The exhibition, called "The Fabric
of Design" reveals the inspiration
behind the square and is open from
19-30 April. Origins of the design
are revealed through sketches, collages,
photos and 3d pieces.
Fiona has combined
the areas' famous lace-making history
with natural imagery as the main inspiration
for the overall sculptural design
of the square - which has benefited
from a £27k Arts & Business
New Partners grant.
The distinctive
approach to landscape as art is the
most important feature of the development's
11,000 sq ft public piazza which is
in the heart of the Lace Market -
an area between St Mary's Gate, Warsar
Gate and Fletchergate.
Fiona Heron comments:
"It was important to create a
square that reaches beyond the normal
approach to landscape and public art
as being separate elements. Through
this design I am trying to enfold
both elements into a total sculptural
form."
The wall hanging
is an important element within the
overall design of the square, which
also features an interweaving of natural
and sculptural bronze and stainless
steel trees. An eagerly awaited real
'handkerchief tree', will produce
handkerchief 'leaves' in season.
The £10m contemporary
mixed use development, in the heart
of the Lace Market, will be the first
to feature a central open space of
this kind in this prestigious part
of the city, following the completion
of the £7m redevelopment of
Old Market Square.
The exhibition is
open daily, including Sundays from
19 April, at View from the Top - on
the fourth floor of Waterstone's on
Bridlesmith Gate. For further information
log onto www.viewfromthetop.co.uk
For
further PR information contact Kathryn
Greenwood at Eden PR on 0115 852 4717,
fax 0115 950 9175 or email Kathryn@edenpr.co.uk
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