Seed | Rachael Champion & Jonathan Trayte at Station Hill, Reading, UK

Hales is delighted to announce the unveiling of Seed by Rachael Champion & Jonathan Trayte as part of the Station Hill public art programme, devised by cultural placemaking agency, Futurecity, and commissioned by Lincoln MGT to create a new art trail across the site’s two acres of public realm, linking the station with the town centre. Seed references Sutton’s Seeds and 19th Century Reading, merging botany, history and image microscopy.  It sits on a plinth honouring Reading’s brickmaking heritage and its surface is embellished with nine bronze reliefs of magnified seed textures, chosen through a public engagement programme.

 

Rachael Champion’s work most often manifests as a response to a place or a landscape with careful consideration to a site’s characteristics and history. Contrasting industrial materials with ecological matter, such as plants, grasses and algae, her work challenges our interrelated expectations of the two. Champion aims to assert and express an interconnectivity between the built environment and the natural world, which has become paramount to communicate in the face of climate change.