Lorna Green

LORNA GREEN
B.A.(Hons), M.Phil., FRBS

Mount Pleasant Farm, 105, Moss Lane
Bramhall, Cheshire, SK7 1EG

phone: 44(0)161 439 7459

mob: 44(0)777 854 8356

www.lornagreen.com

Sculptor & Environmental Artist

I am a sculptor and environmental artist whose main interest is in Art in Public Places. I have worked throughout the U.K. as well as overseas in both urban and rural landscapes, indoors and outdoors and have made sculptures which have been both permanent and temporary. My sculpture is site specific in that it relates totally to the site taking into consideration the architecture, the landscape, the history, economy, ecology or mythology of the area. I use a wide variety of materials relevant to the project – wood, stone, bricks, steel, bronze, planting, rope, sand, water, glass, light, plastics, even feathers, silk flowers and drinks cans, and snow, etc. and enjoy working on both large and small scale.

Because all the work I do is commissioned and frequently on a residency basis, both temporary and permanent, I have a wide experience of working with landscape architects, planning permission applications, fabricators, engineers, quarries, brick works, health and safety regulations, administrators, concerns of the general public and the local community with whom I work which include workshops for ideas, assisting, discussions, selection of final sculpture, etc. I am very good at deadlines, budgets both large and small, the vagaries of climate and very much enjoy collaborative projects.

All my projects have a story which has emerged from consultation with the local community: they can include stories or artefacts meaningful to specific areas - I have worked with courtyards which provide spaces for students to chill out in, in a hospital to calm the patients and staff, with schools to develop a sculpture for their grounds, in parks, and have used thousands of tonnes of spoil for earthwork projects for people to use and enjoy – far better than dumping in a landfill site.

I love the research that goes into the development of a sculpture and I relish the snippets of information and the rich stories that people tell me. I suggest a few ideas and the community chooses the one they prefer. Sometimes they like elements from a couple of ideas which I then re-think to incorporate them and when everyone is happy, it goes ahead. This is an exciting and stimulating time because the final result evolves organically and I never quite know what the end result will be.

I have worked the length and breadth of the UK as well as in Australia several times, New Zealand, Canada, China, Korea, Japan, Hungary, Italy, France also several times, Germany twice, the former Yugoslavia, Italy, Lithuania, Ireland, Austria, The Netherlands and Lapland and am happy to continue to work and explore other countries and continents. I enjoy the challenge of learning the language of the countries as well as the customs, food and the way of life. To work in another country is totally different to having a holiday – and having some language certainly helps to enrich the experience.

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Saver screens 2008

Plastic bags, black and silver powder coated steel frames Height 2.25m x dia. 2.5m
Commissioned by the Co-operative Financial Services for the foyer of the CIS Building in Manchester as part of their internal campaign to raise issues on re-using plastic bags and
protecting the environment.

Timescale
Varnished blue slate, brass discs and safety lamps, Cor-ten steel arch, blue solar lights, magnesium limestone boulders and dust - planting to be achieved in spring 2009, Whinstone gravel. Length 50m x width 30m x height 4m
Commissioned by Kelloe Community Partnership in conjunction with Durham County Council for the site adjacent to the original railway line from the colliery which closed in 1983. Timescale references the village's heritage and also its aspirations for the future. The brass discs represent the identity discs of the miners and also the levy that was paid to the church on every ton of coal mined.

Snowdrops for Cambo - wood. 2009
Stone, pebbles and wood sprayed with white paint,
natural slate. Sizes Variable.
Commissioned by The Cambo Estate, Kingsbarns, St. Andrews, Fife as part of Scotland's Snowdrop Festival.
Each of the seven sculptures was inspired by the progress of snowdrops around the selected sites at the time of making - from closed to full bloom.

Spring, Summer and Autumn 1, 2 and 3. 2008
Wood, paint. Sizes variable
Commissioned by Cheshire County Council for "Something Beautiful" in Tatton Park, Knutsford for 'Cheshire's Year of Gardens 2008'.
The installations are about the life cycle of the deer in the park using fallen branches to represent antlers, painted in the colours of leaves from the yellows of early spring, the greens of summer to the rich tones of autumn - birth to death of both deer and leaves.

Verso l'Inizio 2008 -Towards the Beginning
with Carlotta Brunetti for the International Meeting for
Landart, in Pordenone, Italy. 100m x 35m x 4m.
Hay, willow tree. The dead rises up and over a river into the tree of life, the willow, to be regenerated.
Photo: Carlotta Brunetti

Look, Reflect and Recover, 2
Two roof gardens with five 3m high "fountains" in total, of stainless steel rods threaded with specially made varied sizes of blue glass beads set into in "pools" of blue glass chippings in aluminium dishes surrounded by blue neon lights. The "rivers" are of limestone , spray painted with blue enamel paints, glitter and lacquer. Each element is surrounded by pebbles and artificial rocks complete the gardens.
Commissioned by Gateshead NHS Trust for the new North East NHS Surgery Centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.