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If you’re responsible for a place that needs identity, connection, or public understanding, this page explains how commissioning works, and what happens next.
Commissioning a public artwork rarely starts with a finished brief. It starts with a conversation about the place, the people who use it, and what the project needs to achieve.
What I Do
I create site-specific public artworks that help places feel recognised, navigable, and worth caring about.
Using a structured mythmaking process; combining local research, community participation, and narrative design, I translate local history and lived experience into contemporary visual landmarks.
The work supports Placemaking Outcomes such as:
Identity and Belonging
Wayfinding and Visibility
Community Buy-in
Public Understanding of Change
Long-term Relevance in the Public Realm
How Commissioning Works
The process is collaborative, structured, and designed to reduce risk.
1. Project Conversation
We begin with a conversation about your site, objectives, constraints, and stakeholders. If we’re a good fit we can start the development process, if we’re not, there’s no obligations and we can part ways.
2. Research & Story Development
I gather context through site research, local history, and, where appropriate, community engagement, identifying stories already embedded in the place.
3. Design & Direction
Concepts are developed with clear checkpoints, allowing stakeholders to review and refine direction before anything is locked in.
4. Delivery
The artwork is produced on site using professional materials and specialist finishes, with experience working on live public spaces and complex logistics.
5. Legacy
The finished work becomes part of the place’s identity, designed to endure, be understood, and be cared for over time.
What You Can Expect
☑ Experience working on live public and civic sites ☑
☑ Clear stakeholder and approval checkpoints ☑
☑ Community engagement where it adds genuine value ☑
☑ Durable materials and specialist protective finishes ☑
☑ Calm delivery within real-world constraints ☑
Your Story, Told Your Way. Guaranteed.
Collaborative from the ground up: the story is co-created with the people who know the place best, so the final work is locally owned, not imposed.
No generic concepts: the narrative is unique to the site and its people
Clear checkpoints: set milestones so stakeholders can review direction before paint touches the wall
Designed for impact: the artwork supports identity, engagement, and legacy, not just aesthetics
Collaboration is central to the process.
Community voice is included where it meaningfully strengthens the work, not as a tick-box exercise.
Book a Project Conversation
If you’re considering a project, or simply want to explore whether this approach is right for your site, book a project conversation below.
You don’t need a fully formed brief.
We’ll start with the place, and take it from there.
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