The Pontypool Project 2000/2001

This project involved the landscaping and changing of three traffic roundabouts which are the main entrances and exits to Pontypool in South Wales.

After a few months of consultation with many people, to explore who could be involved in the project, the first half of 2000 was spent working with three hundred and sixty year nine school pupils from three local schools, one of which was Welsh language. Before any pen was put to paper the students were introduced to a short rigorous historical examination of the area, people industry, roads and communications. They later produced quite personal images to reflect upon these issues.

The first set of images produced were for parade and display at all the local summer festivals, in the form of large transparent banners. At the end of the summer the banners were returned for each student to take home.

The original scans of these images are on the www.pontypooltown.info/sculptures website.

The second set of images were actually the jumbled pickings from the original designs, arranged by the pupils as a code or pattern so that all three hundred and sixty individual designs could fit together.

The next six months were spent working in a local industrial estate producing the sculptures. Local firms were a crucial part in the constructing of the sculptures, suggesting that skills from past industries had been retained and adapted to inform and shape the new industrial developments.

  Images : Pontypool [ 1 ]

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