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guide www.wondersofweston.org iNTRODUCTiON SEEKiNg THe WONDERS OF WeSTON Claire Doherty and Theresa Bergne – 8 RuTH CLAXTON And My Eyes Danced – 16 TiM eTCHeLLS Winter Piece – 19 Shelter Piece – 22 LARA FAVAReTTO Without earth under foot – 25 TANiA KOVATS iN ASSOCiATiON WiTH gRANT ASSOCiATeS HOLM – 28 RAuMLABORBeRLiN Silly Scope – 32 WRights & SiTeS Everything you need to build a town is here – 36 iNTRODUCTiON Wonders of Weston is a programme of remarkable and memorable The Annotated Guide to Wonders of Weston, a richly illustrated guide artworks, part of the national Sea Change initiative, which seeks to to the programme annotated by Weston residents will be published by support the revitalisation of British seaside towns. Launching on Book Works in spring 2011. (→ www.bookworks.org.uk) 29 October 2010, Wonders of Weston features new artworks by artists Ruth Claxton, Tim Etchells, Lara Favaretto, Tania Kovats in Wonders of Weston is produced by Situations, a public art commissioning association with landscape architects Grant Associates, architects and research programme at the University of the West of England, Bristol raumlaborberlin and artist collective Wrights & Sites. (→ www.situations.org.uk), in association with Field Art Projects, an arts Each of the artists or collectives has responded to the specific consultancy operating in the public realm (→ www.fieldartprojects.com). characteristics of Weston-super-Mare, often drawn to existing The programme has been developed as part of the national Sea Change architectural structures or gathering points such as the former Model initiative, managed by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Yacht Pond, Weston Market, the Railway Station and Town Quarry. Environment (CABE) on behalf of the Department of Culture, Media and The resulting programme features sculptures which transform viewing Sport (DCMS), and is managed by North Somerset Council. points out to sea, a kaleidoscopic mobile pavilion and a night-time luminescent phenomenon, which play on the carnival wonderment of the seaside, as well as a number of texts, illuminated, cast and etched, which encourage us to consider the seaside as a place of childhood memories, contemplation and anticipation. The programme is accompanied by public nominations for the Seventh Wonder of Weston which include a hill fort, a mystic path, a theatre organ and Weston brass band. Nominations can be viewed at Wonders of Weston website (→ www.wondersofweston.org) along with video interviews with the artists and full information on visiting Weston-super-Mare. 5 E L M S LE Y L A D C SAN O L L U ROA M D . D R N TO D LS A KE O R L A N E EN UE B . AV E VE C A FO RD E K W AL H S E W N D A C LA T N R N EA A O S B L N A B A O K R N T R D R OU S D O A RO A O P E N ISL GH N Q L U E R E R R E N N O LA E D S T. M A D U O W ’S RK A RO K ES ’S N C LO R D O E D A D A I D N O W R M A A G D Y A A LEN W Y C A KEWSTOKE D Y WA N H ROA TO E R E U CHURCH L WORLEBURY GOLF COURSE I O B B N U B J RO A D O R I D M B E B L E E W N O A L R T H M Map of A L A D . D A O A Weston-SuPeR-MARe M R AD D WriGhTs & sites KE RO A STO O EW R K ILL M Everything you need to build H I RY LT EBU O WORL WESTON WOODS N a town is here H IL A D L RO BIRNBECK ISLAND AND PIER A constellation of signs O L Worle throughout Weston. Start here BRIST D A to view the keystone sign or O D B R OA L R A T TO Y IS downloadT a map of all signs at T R B R E ER old ToWn QUarry P E K SOU TH ROAD UP E R I www.wondersofweston.org. R B D AD O R SHRU O A BB R Tania KovaTs ERY AVE CECI L D Y R D R U HOLM B A S ‘ S ANCHOR H H N G I R C HEAD B E WE BRISTOL ROAD LOWER IN ASSOCIATION WiTh IR O D N E O ASHCOMBE B H L E M C R K RO U D M GranT associates A R L O M PARK L UPPE Q B D R L A E N madEira covE C E H N U D O D RCH R T T P O E A S N AD I RO P Tim ETchElls R R R U N E K O K GROVE B R ILT R Set within the newly landscaped NI L M G R H A I D T marinE laKE STO PARK E CEMETERY D Winter Piece TH R N SOU SIDE . gardens of Madeira Cove, the caUsEWay E R distinctive landmass of Steep D A two-part artwork on the OAD WATeR AdVeNTuRe ON R Holm is created in miniature, JOHN MAiNe MILT façade of the Winter Gardens PLAY PARK ARCH O STREET R WATERLO drawing the viewer’s attention O Y Pavilion invites us to reflect A L T to the encounter with landscape REE P T S D ER on the seaside as a place of A K BA R D R A WinTEr ST O W T R and scale. A DO G childhood memories and adult GardEns A S D N E I M D EA K E R C D LHA GRAND PIER Pavilion R M GROVE O E L E contemplation. Best viewed R S B F S L R I M EG A after sunset. E O NT W WESTON S C inFORMATion hall STR EET H MILTON S OXFORD ST. A TOWN HALL LOC D STAT KING ROA l ara Favaretto ION RD D R Without earth under foot E StaTion T O dOLPHiN C D S R I VA SQuARe L NE A remarkable night-time L A occurrence appears on the W W IN Marine Lake causeway which ELLENBOROUGH TE RS PARK TO K dissects the sea from this E R O D A artificial lake. D Y A A O W C M LEVE R DON IN RAUMLABORBERLIN R A OAD E LU modEl V R R C E O H H Silly Scope, SPAM! The John yachT Pond C R LIFTO F N R D D IE L D Cleese fanzine and Funny E S SE D VE RN RD W Foot Age A A D Y R A A P O E S X R C LA E shElTEr E REN E CE RD V H N T Inspired by Weston’s most N I E E C R R R A N A R E famous resident, John Cleese, D B CLARENCE A M Tim ETchElls PARK V E a temporary kaleidoscopic Shelter Piece CE RD S structure encourages visitors CLAREN CK ROAD and residents to see the world A text in fragmentary scenes, QUANTO D W A I askew. Two other parts to witnessed by the artist during a ROAD O Ruth claxTon N ND R A T ORL O E M E R the project, a fanzine and R I 24-hour period in Weston, is set And My Eyes Danced S H T LTON RD S O videos made with local young R N here against the expansive view CHA K O E U V A sculptural installation R people, can be seen in the P E out to the Bristol Channel. H O D I A L emerging from the former Model station waiting room. L D R O Yacht Pond shifts in appearance Until 12 November. A D EAN DOW BR N A V N E with the changing light and tide. O R T BROAD OAK H RD CRICKET 0 1/4 1/2 3/4 MILE GROUND 0 1/2 1 KM U P H A I H L T L E C R R U R H O C A D ROA D DM IXO N D L O R AY O BRO ADW A D SO U TH B L E A DO N H ILL R D O M A N ROA C E L T B I R C ID G W A T E R W A Y B LEA DO SH IP LA TE R O A D A D RO SEEKiNg THe Situations has focused in recent years on exploring exemplary WONDERS OF WeSTON models of public art commissioning ranging from projects which have been developed by a curator or artist who is embedded in specific A curatorial perspective places over long periods of time to 24-hour sculptures which capture the imagination of the public through unannounced interventions. Field Art Projects have always valued the importance of building good Weston-super-Mare has been undergoing a process of regeneration for working relationships with clients and stakeholders by developing their over 150 years. Brunel’s Bristol & Exeter Railway reached the small knowledge of good practice in order that they can better respond to the settlement in 1841, transforming the townscape from a lone hotel and commissioning process as well as recognising the value of temporary a couple of inns into a seaside resort for thousands of workers from the and more ephemeral commissions as part of an advocacy process.