Constructed Opera becomes Permanent Feature
With a bombardment of art exhibitions, public art interventions and music and video events across the city the Axis Festival and AirSpace Gallery have given Stoke on Trent a glimpse of how fun and inspiring art in the city can be.
We saw everything from fly posters, wrapped lamp posts and gallery exhibitions to live art in shops, installations in bars and guerrilla video art on the Victoria Hall.
Following the success of the visual arts programme it has been requested that one piece of temporary work become permanent. In the same spirit as Anthony Gormley’s statues at Crosby Beach were cherished to such an extent that they were eventually declared a permanent feature; the Victoria Hall in Hanley have requested that Rebecca Huxley’s ‘Place, Movement and Sound’ remains permanently on the windows leading up the stairway towards the rear of the building.
Commissioned by the AirSpace Gallery as part of the diverse Axis Festival Visual Arts programme Huxley’s work consists of giant geometric shapes taped onto large windows. Described as a ‘constructed opera of line and pattern’ the work is reminiscent of stained glass windows, capturing the light and projecting coloured shapes inside the building.
