News December 2008

Title ‘Roche’ Façade of the new House of Fraser
Cabot Circus, Bristol

Blueprint Magazine.pp feature December issue 2008.
Extracts from ‘Department Store Bristol’ Austin Williams.

...’it is nice to see elevations driven by genuine artistic ambition’

...’at every turn there is a genuine attempt to convey higher artistic goals’

...’congratulations to a reasonably enlightened developer and client, and to the architect and and artist for producing a deceptively simple building...

...‘This genuine artistic endeavour is best expressed by the use of a real artist’

....’ Just as with any real art, it’s not meant to be easy, and you have to work at it to get rewards.’

Title ‘Roche’ Façade of the new House of Fraser, Cabot Circus, Bristol

“This work is both charged and completed by the quality of marine light particular to Bristol. The drawings for the relief were made in response to the stone, scale and geometry of the architecture to bring a sense of landscape and an awareness of reflected light and cast shadows; a realisation of the moment.'

Artist Susanna Heron in collaboration with Stanton Williams Architects.
Bas relief in glass and bronze integral to the Portland Roche fossil-stone facade on Bond Street South.
Three storey glass window, etched and sandblasted, 14.4 x 13.4 metres located above the bronze frieze.
Bronze panels, cast and milled, interspersed with brass cassettes, 7x35 metres at ground level.

For further information and images please contact Susanna Heron