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At the first meeting with the Talbot group we discussed public art styles and purpose.
• Creative themes can be based on text such as notes or letters on mass shown produced on wooden tiles or walls or rags. Lots of small messages or one large message can be displayed.
• The theme can be environment related such as housing for animals from bats to bees and birds or plants or it can have a political message.
• Pubic art can be based on subject themes such as animals, nature, gardens, food, homes etc.
• It could be based on history or local identity such as the shark fin like structures or way finding tourism signs.
• Artworks can be based on materials such as found or recycled objects such as local stones or obselete appliances.
• They can have a use such as seat, bench, shade, structure, shelter or part of something functional.
• Or it can frame a view as well as being a shelter. It can repurpose a remnant structure or ruin or decorate an unsightly functional object.
• Larger scale public art can be integrated with landscape design and architecture. This is more often professional or competition based and requires more funds.
• Creative themes can be based on text such as notes or letters on mass shown produced on wooden tiles or walls or rags. Lots of small messages or one large message can be displayed.
• The theme can be environment related such as housing for animals from bats to bees and birds or plants or it can have a political message.
• Pubic art can be based on subject themes such as animals, nature, gardens, food, homes etc.
• It could be based on history or local identity such as the shark fin like structures or way finding tourism signs.
• Artworks can be based on materials such as found or recycled objects such as local stones or obselete appliances.
• They can have a use such as seat, bench, shade, structure, shelter or part of something functional.
• Or it can frame a view as well as being a shelter. It can repurpose a remnant structure or ruin or decorate an unsightly functional object.
• Larger scale public art can be integrated with landscape design and architecture. This is more often professional or competition based and requires more funds.