Friendship Follies
A new commission for Wentworth Woodhouse as part of the House of Fun exhibition 5 August – 16 November 2025 and for Keppel’s Column 8 – 9 August 2025. Part of the first ever Children’s Capital of Culture 2025. The Whistlejacket Room at Wentworth Woodhouse hosts a 6m high recreation of the Rockingham Monument plus four […]
Pet Project
The Bowes Museum was founded by Joséphine and John Bowes and opened to the public in 1892. Even though it looks like a French chateau it was never used as a residence, but was designed and built to showcase the Bowes’ huge collections of paintings, textiles, ceramics, furniture and silverware. Pet Project responds to the […]
Bananarchy!
A site specific, playable exhibition that explores Hull’s historic fruit market that operated at Humber Street for 250 years. Humber Street Gallery occupies 64 Humber Street which was built on a WWII bomb-site by fruit wholesaler T J Poupart in 1956. The company sold fruit and vegetables and the site housed a banana ripening room […]
Cambridge Playlaws
The Cambridge Playlaws are a series plaques that encourage Cambridge citizens to reconnect with their playful selves and to be more playful in public spaces. There are 10.6 plaques in total – 10 complete plaques and 0.6 of plaque that is just over half legible – responding to the way in which the project is […]
Play Revolution
Play Revolution is a playful art installation for Wonderlab: The Bramall Gallery at the National Railway Museum (NRM) in York. It is a permanent, interactive artwork that includes fixed and loose parts to explore engineering habits of mind. All elements are influenced by the displays and archives at the museum with input from children and […]
Heaven
Heaven is a new interactive artwork for Left Bank that is an immersive and joyful experience for people of all ages. Located in the nave of the former church, Heaven is a large, colourful, inflatable structure co-designed with children from the local community. Participants can run, jump, hide, race, climb, dance and chill on the […]
Play Rebellion
Play Rebellion is an interactive exhibition where audiences are invited to become active participants and get physical with the artwork, to reconnect with our inner creative geniuses* and generate new possibilities. For too long our creativity has been drained out of us by an outdated education system that no longer prepares us for contemporary life. […]
PlayShapes
PlayShapes is an interactive, play-led activity for children that allows them to create their own sculptures, installations or playscapes. Based on 1m coloured cubes that break down into steps, triangles, polygons, rectangular prisms, and cylinders children use their imaginations to create new structures either alone or in groups. At the beginning of each 45 minute session seven cubes are set […]
Skip, Play, Repeat
‘Skip Play Repeat’ is a playful and participatory artwork commissioned by Mirador Arts for ‘Walking In Other’s Footsteps’. The project is a response to the Elizabeth Roberts Working Class Oral History Archive, one of the most important collections of oral history testimonies of working class life in north west England. Mirador Arts commissioned three artists […]
Consumption
Consumption is a site specific installation for Ripon Workhouse Museum addressing issues around wellbeing in older people. Working with the museum’s team of volunteers, Consumption shows the volunteers preparing and eating a standard meal served to inmates in 1861. The volunteers sit in rows, segregated by sex as they would have been in 1861, eating […]