Micah Purnell has teamed up with Wembley Park in a range of vibrant installations.
The award-winning text based artist and designer Micah Purnell has created a new installation for the Spanish Steps at Wembley Park. Renowned for his distinctive, inspiring public messaging. Purnell lives in Manchester, and has worked with clients including the NHS, The Guardian and Elbow.
Three words spread across 180 steps in three columns set in radiating colours read POWER IN UNITY.
“It seems to me the only way to rally against adversity is together, whether in sport, in health or against injustice. It’s the practice of togetherness that we have the greatest potential for victory, healing and change. This is what the artwork is about - that some funky colourful vibes to brighten your day.”says Purnell
One fitness enthusiast on social media said “Don’t you just love running up these stairs? It’s become part of my workout now!
Alongside the installation are scores text based illuminating animations across Wembley Park. Eight messages have been created by Purnell in response to the brief ‘Against the Odds’ and underpinned by togetherness. The statements include 'Strength in Numbers', 'Community Like Never Before' and 'You and Me & Everyone', which all speak of unity, inclusivity and togetherness, in spite of difficult times.
Purnell says “The vibrant colours I use bounce out of the darkness. People are supporting one another in more tangible ways, difficult times such as these have in some way shone a light on local humanity."
Three words spread across 180 steps in three columns set in radiating colours read POWER IN UNITY.
“It seems to me the only way to rally against adversity is together, whether in sport, in health or against injustice. It’s the practice of togetherness that we have the greatest potential for victory, healing and change. This is what the artwork is about - that some funky colourful vibes to brighten your day.”says Purnell
One fitness enthusiast on social media said “Don’t you just love running up these stairs? It’s become part of my workout now!
Alongside the installation are scores text based illuminating animations across Wembley Park. Eight messages have been created by Purnell in response to the brief ‘Against the Odds’ and underpinned by togetherness. The statements include 'Strength in Numbers', 'Community Like Never Before' and 'You and Me & Everyone', which all speak of unity, inclusivity and togetherness, in spite of difficult times.
Purnell says “The vibrant colours I use bounce out of the darkness. People are supporting one another in more tangible ways, difficult times such as these have in some way shone a light on local humanity."
Private view: 6pm to 10pm, Thursday 1st July 2021
Open to the public: Friday 2nd to Saturday 31st July 2021
Friday 5pm – 8pm, Saturday & Sunday 12pm – 6pm (or by appointment)
The Belfry and North Gallery at St John on Bethnal Green,
200 Cambridge Heath Road, London. E2 9PA
Alter Us is a London-based, multi-disciplinary art collective that questions, and attempts to offer solutions to, pressing issues at the forefront of our contemporary context. Their concerns include capitalism and inequality, individualism, connection and disconnection in human relations, sustainability, and the relationship between nature and new technologies in the age of the Anthropocene.
The group presents a new exhibition, entitled Last Sunset / New Sunrise, which takes its theme from one of the questions which form the collective's manifesto: Are we moving towards the last sunset or a new sunrise? Each participating artist has reflected on this question, exploring the complexities of our species' survival, made especially pertinent by the backdrop of a global pandemic.
The exhibition is taking place at St. John on Bethnal Green Church and is divided into two distinct spaces: a Dark Room, simulating the twilight of the last sunset, and a White Room, evoking the brightness of a new sunrise. The opposition of the spaces allows for a dialogue between the contrasting possibilities of our potential extinction and sustained future existence.
As well as contemplation on the influence of our species as a whole, Alter Us invites reflection on the impact of our individual actions and their role in the planet's future. In other words, how can we be a part of a new sunrise and not be fated to watch the last sunset?
Participating artists: César Baracca, Lorenzo Belenguer, Lois Bentley, Tere Chad, Mandeep Dillon, Paul Hindle, Margaret Jennings, Maritina Keleri, M. Lohrum, Nathalie Mei, Tom Norris, Teresa Paiva, Christopher Pearson, Ana Luiza Rodrigues, Ludmila Sigismondo, Aleksandr Tishkov and Giuseppe Mario Urso.
Free of charge throughout the Festival, 6–15 July 2021
10am–4.30pm, Monday–Saturday
1–4.30pm, Sunday
Also open to concert-goers before each performance, and during intervals
St Albans Cathedral, North Transept
Artists: Carolyn Attewill, Robert Baggaley, Francis Bowyer, Tessa Cole, Virginia Corbett, Patrick Cullen, Clorinda Goodman, Lyn Hirschowitz, Diane Maclean, Juliet Nall-Cain, Katharine Newman,
Caroline Romer, Linda Smith, Sue Thomson, Dione Verulam.
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Paul Weller - On Sunset.
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