greyworld book
greyworld’s new book, entitled In The City, has just been published. The book is hardback, 64 pages, and beautifully illustrated throughout…
Archives: April, 2010
Railings (1996)
We often delight in the simple pleasure of picking up a stick and running it along a set of railings, making a lovely “clack-clack-clack” sound. greyworld tuned these railings so that when you ran a stick along them they played “The Girl from Ipanema.”
Invisible (2009)
The entire town of Burnley has become a canvas for magical paintings that appear and disappear throughout the day and night. Some as big as a house, others as small as a door, these paintings reveal a hidden side of Burnley, offering viewers the opportunity to explore the town in a whole new light.
Bins & Benches (2005)
Five bins and four benches have been injected with a magic serum of life so that they can break free from their staid and fixed positions to roam free in a public square in Cambridge.
Playground (1999)
What appears to be the remains of a playing field is still visible through the overgrown grass. As people explore this area they unlock the ghostly sound of past sporting activity..
Urban Samples (2003)
Urban Samples is an installation that takes fragments of from the urban environment. When touched or examined the elements create music, evocative of their original location…
Bloom (2007)
greyworld have created a permanent 55m installation for a striking new Foster and Partners development in historic Spitalfields, East London. The work of art occupies the full height of the building’s central 10-storey atrium. It uses hundreds of flowers, hidden within a seemingly sober column suspended within the space, to allow the building to bloom
The Layer (1999)
The Layer is an art system created to articulate transit spaces through a series of contact sculptures.
