I’m told that no one is interested in anything you’ve created more than a few years ago! But projects that span the first twenty years of my creative career feel too important to me to be forgotten. So I’ve grouped them together in this archive. All the projects listed represent my time at award winning agency Land Design Studio working alongside so many talented architects, engineers, writers and designers to create some wonderful cultural projects.
The Mary Rose Museum reunites the ship with its artefacts for the first time since it sank before King Henry VIII in 1545.
Once again, working alongside architects Wilkinson Eyre the collective creative team won a global architectural competition to design the new home for one of the most important historical projects in Britain. The Galleries create a snapshot of time moments before the ship sank in battle. Visitors walk along re interpreted deck levels to imagine the life on-board with digital projection and film content used to successfully bring this story to life.
“The Mary Rose is one of the most important objects in English History. It’s up there with the Doomsday Book, the Magna Carta, and Hampton Court. Indeed I would go further. The Mary Rose is the English Pompeii or Herculaneum; all Tudor life is there.” David Starkey,
Awards:
2015 – European Museum of the Year Award, Special Commendation and Finalist
2014 – Museums and Heritage Award Best Permanent Exhibition,
2014 – Art Fund Prize, Museum of the Year, Finalist
The National Waterfront Museum Swansea was at the time, the largest lottery funded project in Wales and the first Museum in the UK designed specifically for free visitor access and a focal point for urban generation within the city of Swansea.
Working alongside award winning architects Wilkinson Eyre, we created a significant series of exhibition galleries that told the story of Wales’ industrial past. Using digital media and interactive technology to create a narrative that would attract a new younger audience to visit museums and cultural attractions. This award winning project was chosen as an exemplar for visitor access.
Awards:
2006 – Association for Heritage Interpretation, Special Award
Changing the face of St Pancras Station to become the new home for Eurostar.
The new terminals were designed to provide comfort, functionality and celebrate the heritage of the original listed station. Partnerships were created with Google and the National Gallery to provide visitor engagement during their dwell time in the departure lounge. Whilst in the business premier lounge we designed bespoke furniture and created a unique pattern with Timorous Beasties to reflect the Victorian heritage through a contemporary lens.
Awards:
2008 – FX Awards Leisure Entertainment Venue, Finalist
No1 Smithery was a major new addition to the Historic Dockyard Chatham.
In renovating the original Smithery building alongside architects Van Heyningen and Haward architects we created the largest collection of ship models in existence with a series of new museum galleries to display and interpret key items within the collection.
The exhibition content marries intricate object display with interactive digital media and graphic communication to bring to life the history behind these precious artefacts.
The Millennium Seedbank is a global initiative to archive a seed from every plant species in existence from all corners of the globe.
Based within Wakehurst Place in Sussex and part of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, the Seedbank was created by Stanton Williams Architects.
The award winning project includes a public space focusses on key stories around the importance of seed collections and its impact on the world we live in.
Awards:
2001 Concrete Society Award
Scott. An award winning global exhibition project to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of Captain Scott’s fateful last trip in search of the south Pole.
Designed for display in London and Sydney the exhibition centres around a full scale representation of Scott’s Cape Evans Hut.
Influenced by Lars Von Trier’s film Dogville the story is told through areas marked out on the floor of the hut itself. Using the original photographic archive of Herbert Ponting the environment was brought to life with a collage of objects and imagery locaterd in the specific location in the hut itself.
Awards:
2013 – Museums and Heritage Award Best Temporary/Touring Exhibition, Winner
Dinobirds. A global touring exhibition designed for the NHM London.
The exhibition was designed to illustrate the direct link between birds and dinosaurs using never before seen fossils recently discovered in China. Using a series of changing environments to chart the first time it was theorised by the Victorians through to the time it became scientific fact. fact. The exhibition uses a layered design concept for multi- language communication with the centrepiece of the exhibition, an interactive where you can scan fossils and search for identifiable skeletal parts.
Quite incredibly, outside of club football, The National Football Museum was the first time a museum was dedicated to the beautiful game.
Located within specially created spaces at Preston’s Deepdale Stadium, (the only remaining original ground from one of the founders of the Football League) we created two distinct galleries celebrating the origins of the games through to present day and a thematic interactive gallery that celebrates key elements within the game.
Awards:
2003 – European Museum of the Year Award, Shortlist