Erith

2018

Sited at the gateway to the extensive new housing development Erith Park, the sculpture references the neolithic hand axes once made on the site yet complements the contemporary architecture of the development. Two columns stand 3.5m high, split to reveal a passage through, like the splitting of flint to create axes.

I made all the bricks in soft clay at Coleford Brickworks in the Forest of Dean, who then fired them before I assembled the sculpture in my workshop , in prefabricated sections. I worked with the local community to carve images of leaves and regeneration on bands of bricks, building new stories and a sense of ownership.

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