REGENT’S PARK ESTATE STORY TRAIL
Regent’s Park Estate Story Trail is an exciting new resident-led socially engaged public art trail through Regent’s Park Estate, Euston.
Described by residents as
“a glimmer of light”, the 10 commissioned artists and collectives have created 12 site-specific installations that bring 28 new public artworks across the estate. Each artwork relates to locations selected by residents and explores local culture, ecology and heritage as well as responding to some of the practical needs of the area.
The Story Trail is a celebration of the past, present and future of Regent’s Park Estate, promoting a sense of local pride, safety and connection through a series of public art works created for residents and visitors alike.
The inspiration for the project is a 300-year-old Plane Tree that lives in Clarence Gardens: “If this Tree could speak imagine what stories it would tell!”
THE ARTISTS
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Alisa Ruzavina is a community & ecology-tending interdisciplinary artist and facilitator working across installation, textiles, ritual, and participatory art. Her curiosity lies in creating conversations and collective experiences in the public realm that playfully explore alternative forms of knowledge, opening possibilities for sustainable place-based ways of relating, making and being that bring urban audiences closer in communion with the land, the civic commons, and the surrounding them intercultural and interspecies communities.
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Brendan Barry is a photographer, educator and camera builder whose creative photographic practice combines elements of construction, education, performance and participation. Fascinated by the mechanics of vision and the processes of analogue photography, his work is concerned with the transformation of different objects and environments into spaces capable of viewing and making a photographic image.
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Clayground Collective – Duncan Hooson & Claire West work with clay and devise clay-based activities with strong visual impact, an element of performance and collective making, contributing to shared cultural memory. They believe that everyone, whatever their age or background, will gain something positive from an experience of clay, through getting their hands dirty, by making, playing and exploring the material’s creative potential.
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Dustin Ericksen's art explores the boundaries of perception and how we think about our surroundings. Using sculpture, performances, and images, he captures these deep philosophical ideas. While he used to live on Regent’s Park Estate, he now works from a studio there. His art has been shown globally and is held in both public and private collections.
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HAQUE TAN – Ling Tan & Usman Haque create unforgettable architecture, systems and experiences that get people working together, co-creating diverse shared futures. Our work transcends conventional boundaries, blending physical and digital, human and non-human, natural and artificial. With diverse backgrounds spanning multiple heritages and languages, we bring a unique approach to the design process, embracing the concept of the 'other': other ideas, other people, other genders, other cultures, other beings, other species.
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Jack Wates is a London-based artist. His practice is formed around the production of spatial ‘moments’ with projects taking form across a variety of disciplines from public realm art projects and multi-sensory installations to ‘performative’ sculpture and the production of images.
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Shiraaz is a visual artist, architecture graduate and designer based in Yorkshire, UK. His work process is rooted in a simple admiration for nature; from the cells that form our physical bodies to the sacred geometry guiding our solar system and universe. The intention through all the mediums of his work is to capture fleeting, intangible and metaphysical moments and suspend them in time.
Through his artwork and architectural practice he aims to respect, enhance and pay gratitude to the environment. He works sustainably and eco-friendly in order to better our communities and the places we call home. -
Ocean Stefan makes performance work, installations and text. Their work is playful, low-key and interventionist and elevates the everyday, while remaining accessible. The things they make frequently play with language, duration, mischief and confusion.
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Rafal Zajko is a Polish artist working and in living in London. His work deals with issues around industrialisation and technological progress, often exploring their environmental impact. His sculptural practice incorporates diverse materials and processes including ceramics, kinetics, prosthetics, and performance as a means to examine folklore, science fiction and queer technoscience.
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YARA + DAVINA are a British social practice duo, who make ambitious, playful, interactive public artworks that respond to site, context and audience. Unfailingly inventive, their participatory artworks are rooted within the every day, using formats from popular culture; such as mini golf to jokes, to explore issues that touch on the human condition.
In response to artists HAQUE TAN’s installation ‘More Than Human’, local Ukrainian artist and musician Ayamikhan was inspired by the idea of talking to the old tree and created a unique sound piece ‘Soliloquy For A Plane Tree’.
”I have thought about how to create a piece of music that embodies or evokes somehow the sense or feeling of a tree. I often use simulation of wind to generate notes in my music, then quantise that into the modes I like.
I decided on the Neapolitan major and minor modes, each played by a synthesiser, then output to nine separate channels, those treated differently. Thus, many branches of sound from a single trunk.”
