Big Things on the Beach

What are you looking at?, by Amy Copeman (photo courtesy of Bob Jefferson)

The Power of Three, art work commissioned by the Public Art Commissioning Group of Big things on the Beach; 3 - What are you looking at? by Amy Copeman

Coloured vinyl photographs using images from the beach

Location: Bandstand at end of Joppa Road

I will draw attention to the beach, promenade and the creatures that live there, with a series of photographs transposed onto coloured vinyl and backed onto rigid Perspex shapes. The brightly coloured artworks will be hung from the bandstand area at the Joppa end of the promenade. Shafts of light will enhance the different beachfront images, which include; fish, shells, birds, driftwood and all things that people see everyday if they walk along the beach.

There will also be coloured vinyls on the railings at the Joppa end of the promenade, which will show some of the unique and beautiful features of the promenade and beachfront. The art will engage people with the natural beauty of the seafront and may surprise people by what they can find there if they look more closely.

The Power of Three, art work commissioned by the Public Art Commissioning Group of Big things on the Beach; 2 - Hives by Emma Herman-Smith

Cast beehives highlighting the global decline of the honey bee

Location: The green space behind the cake stand.

Three concrete casts of the interior and undersides of beehives reveal the space within which the honey bee constructs, maintains and develops it’s community unashamedly referencing Rachel Whitereads’ artwork entitled ‘House’.

‘Hives’ aims to imply absence, transience and loss and increase public awareness of the global decline of the honeybee population. As our primary pollinators, their continued loss would ultimately herald our own.