A fun and exciting competition to combine with Anthea Hamilton's exhibition 'The Squash' in 2018.

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James worked as part of the team at Bowles & Wyer to produce conceptual ideas and narrative to relate to the exhibition, designing interactive public art spaces at the entrance to Tate Britain.  

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We were proud to have been shortlisted to design and install our entry, but were sadly pipped at the post and just missed out.

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As with most competitions like this, it was a great way to get the team working creatively on something we perhaps wouldn't normally have taken on.

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The key design features revolved around a field of Kimono clad scarecrows guarding a plot of seeds, representing squash seeds.  A great area of a selfie and opportunities to create your own Kimono!

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On the opposite side of the gallery, a series of seed shaped raised beds and benches offered space for community groups and school children to experiment with growing produce.

 

Anthea Hamilton's installation - A solo performer in a squash-like costume inhabits the Duveen Galleries every day for more than six months for the Tate Britain Commission 2018. Each element of The Squash has evolved from Hamilton's interest in a photograph she found in a book several years ago when looking at improvisational theatre and participatory art practices in the 1960s and 1970s. It showed a person dressed as what looks like a vegetable lying among vines 

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This competition was undertaken at Bowles & Wyer