Design of a youth shelter in memory of a local young person. Young people have been involved in its design through consultation and workshops carried out by Free Form.

Client: Shoreditch Trust & Hackney Borough Council

Free Form was appointed as Public Art Consultants to firstly to produce a public art strategy identifying opportunities at an early stage for this new mixed-use housing development in East London. The outcome has resulted in a £120k programme of public artworks including landscaping using a 100% recycled glass pavers; a new seating area; commemorative artwork and working with Stitches in Time in the creation of a foyer piece for the new Healthy Living Centre.

(Left) Harford Street Consultation Day. Young residents create tiles using Eluna 100% recycled glass, which will be used as part of a new floorscape for the development.

Client: East Thames Housing and Bellways Homes.

Free Form is about to begin a programme of design workshops with Hungerford School to create images for the hoarding that surrounds the Market Estate.

(Left – Market Estate with existing hoarding)

Client: Southern Housing and Higgins

Free Form is designing a new toddler area on Buckland Court Estate in Hackney and the design incorporates artwork created by local children at the Buckland Court Garden Party consultation day last August.

The children made their own play sculptures using clay and working directly onto scaled plans.

Free Form also ran recycled glass workshops with young children whose work will be fired and made into glass pavers for the toddler area.

(Left – Sketch design for Buckland Court toddler area)

Client: Bushow Henley

Design and installation of fibre optic courtyard floor design using Eluna 100% recycled glass, Fleet Street, London.

Client: Fleetwood Developments

Young people from the Regents Park have been involved in all aspects of this project to design new gates for Cumberland Road Market. From digital media workshops and consultation with fellow residents right through to bringing their final designs to a public vote.

(Left - Cumberland Market Gates)

Client: West Euston Partnership

Free Form was appointed by Shoreditch Trust to design and manage improvements to Shoreditch Park, formerly a sparse, uninviting and under-used green space in Hackney.

Working with the London borough of Hackney and receiving funding through section106 planning obligations, the programme has established a lively Park User Group and created sculptural entrance markers, new pathways using 100% recycled glass pavers designed by local schoolchildren, bespoke design granite seating and heritage lamp-posts cast from the originals. Community involvement in the conceptual development stage of the project provided a way for park users to play a strategic and creative role in the design process.

(Left – new bespoke railings for Shoreditch Park)

Client Shoreditch Trust and Hackney Borough Council

Free Form has created three floor roundels for the new pathways in Grove Gardens; Dunstable using Eluna 100% recycled glass.

(Left - Residents of Downside Estate took part in workshops with Free Form to design tiles using colourful recycled glass.)

Client: South Bedfordshire District Council

Free Form Arts Trust is the appointed public art consultants and lead artists for the Bishops Square, Spitalfields by Hammerson Plc and Spitalfields Development Group. As public art consultants to the Bishops Square Development, Free Form has explored opportunities for floorscape artworks and the implementation of 3 year rolling Sculpture programme.

Client: Hammerson Plc & Spitalfields Development Group.

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Located on the Queens Bridge, Shoreditch, the 7 metres high sculpture is made from Corten Steel, inlaid with bespoke 100% recycled glass, backlit with blue LEDs. The sculpture celebrates the Regents Canal's industrial heritage. Its rusted finish and shape is reminiscent of the T Section Steel Girders.

Design Team
Project Manager - Alan Rossiter
Project Artist - Joel Parkes

Client: Shoreditch Trust