"I love that they, as residents and artists in their own right, have a stake or claim to a public artwork being planned for their area as it goes through an immense period of change."
"fragments of local conversation permanently embedded into the landscape, leading the eye to the words 'horses are here' written high in the sky"
"Thamesmead was once known as "the town of the future"."
Was.Is.Will.Be will be sited at Southmere Lake in Cygnet Square and unveiled on 28 November. The work is a first permanent public sculpture by Jasleen Kaur and is funded by the non-profit housing association Peabody. A creative studio of five Thamesmead residents, including Comfort Adeneye and Gonzalo Fuentes, helped select the work. Project partners include Studio Danmole, the public art consultancy Company, Place, and youth culture specialist Joseph Gray. The piece incorporates fragments of local conversation embedded into the landscape and features the words 'horses are here' written high in the sky. Other Peabody commissions include Bob and Roberta Smith’s Thamesmead Codex and Ackroyd & Harvey’s planting of seven oak trees inspired by Joseph Beuys’s 7000 Oaks. Thamesmead originated in the 1960s on reclaimed marshland with Brutalist low-rise housing and served as a backdrop for A Clockwork Orange.
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