Sectors

Sculpture by setting

Where a piece is going changes almost everything about it — the scale it has to hold, the finish a maintenance team can look after, the window it can be installed in and the approvals it has to clear. These eight pages set out what we have learnt about each setting, with indicative scale and budget, the considerations that decide the outcome, and completed work in that sector.

Eight settings we work in

Each page covers the brief, the considerations, indicative scale and budget, a curated selection and case studies.

  • A walled churchyard under a large spreading tree, with low headstones and crosses in mown grass along the wall.

    Memorials and Commemoration

    Memorial work carries a responsibility the rest of the catalogue does not.

  • A mature private garden with clipped topiary, massed white roses and a stone path curving past a small stone fountain towards a large house.

    Gardens and Private Residences

    Private commissions are the least constrained and the most personal work we do.

  • Commuters spread across a wide station hall with departure boards and a long clear span above.

    Transport Hubs

    Airports, stations and metro forecourts are the most constrained sites we work on and the most rewarding, because a piece here is seen by more people in a week than a gallery piece sees in a decade.

  • A paved route between two office buildings with clipped planting on both sides.

    Corporate Campuses

    Corporate commissions are usually driven by an architect with a coherent material palette and a client who wants the piece to mean something without being literal.

  • A broad paved walkway flanked by tall trees in full leaf, with dappled light across the paving.

    Parks and Landscape Schemes

    Landscape work is the sector where material choice does most of the design.

  • A shopping centre atrium under a circular skylight, with balconies stepping back on each level and escalators crossing the void.

    Shopping Malls and Retail

    Retail sculpture works hard.

  • A large paved civic square seen from above with one figure walking across it, and a line of trees and benches down one side.

    Public Art and Civic Schemes

    Civic commissions are procurement exercises before they are artistic ones.

  • A resort terrace above the sea with day beds and parasols under palms on flagstone paving.

    Hotels and Resorts

    Hotel work is judged on two things: how the piece photographs, and how little trouble it causes once it is in.

Not sure which of these you are?

Most briefs sit across two of them. Describe the site and we will tell you which constraints actually apply.

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