Atrium: A showcase of art & design

Friday 7th Dec, 6.30 – 10.30pm
Saturday 8th Dec, 12.00pm – 6.00pm

Set within the frame of Great Western Studios’ dramatic atrium, a new collaboration opens.

Resident artists and designers are presenting a showcase of their own work, celebrating a diversity of media. This is a unique opportunity to meet exhibitors and to buy directly from them. It will be open to the public Friday evening 7th December, and Saturday afternoon 8th December.

Explore the central atrium and its adjoining studios and gallery to find work from over 30 exhibitors. Among them you can find Jimmy Turrell, a graphic designer who combines digital techniques with handmade collage, screen printing, drawing and painting. His clients include The Guardian, Green Peace and Nike. Wendy Bain is a colourist who works with oils, acrylics and gold & silver leaf. Her paintings capture the energy and mood of landscapes with colour and movement. Julie Goldsmith is a sculptress. Her totemic figures are talismanic and poetic.

ilovegorgeous are designers of beautiful vintage-inspired clothes for girls. They will be selling samples from previous seasons’ collections. Shiv is an illustrator; working with photography and Photoshop, she creates a realistic feel within an abstract subject matter. Her clients include Sony Music, BMW and Camel.

This event promises to be an open and accessible market place with unique works on offer. In addition to the examples given above, you can also find visual arts, mosaics, ceramics, printing, photography, jewellery, leatherwork, textiles, millinery, fashion, costume, architecture and landscape design.

Come celebrate in a creative community. With the Atrium Café offering food and drink, it is set to be a vibrant and enjoyable experience.

Great Western Studios Atrium

Moxon Architects new Architects’ Journal entry

‘Seemingly effortless, Moxon’s glass and steel viaduct around Taunton Castle belies the complexity of its construction’, writes Felix Mara.

Moxon conceived the bridges as a typology of spans, each with very different structural principles: a viaduct in the case of the Castle Green Bridge, a simply supported beam in for the Mill Stream Bridge and a tied arch to the River Tone Bridge. Their contexts are also very different: a Scheduled Ancient Monument in the case of the Castle Green Bridge, landscaped parkland for the Mill Stream Bridge and a river in the case of the Tone Bridge. The essential point is that they have a shared language of detailed design.

Moxon, also the designer of Taunton’s Third Way Bridge that completed last year, is one of several architectural practices with a convincing portfolio of bridge projects, including Wilkinson Eyre and Clash Architects. These firms bring unique architectural skills to this work, seen, for example, in the use of false perspective in the Castle Green Bridge, which tapers from 5 to 2.6m in width to increase or diminish expected travel distances.

A meticulous note on Moxon’s drawings states that no horizontal paving grout lines should be in the same line within five rows of each other. This refinement extends to practical features, such as drainage gaps between glass decking planks and the strips of grey slip-resistant fritting on them.

Read the full article here.

Photography by Simon Kennedy

Moxon Architects