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.
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