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Raunds Gateway Artwork

Powerpoint Presentation Document 19th July 2018

A TOWN ON THE MOVE

Mandy Taylor - Project Manager Peter Davidson - Artist Stephen Broadbent - Artist Lucy Gannon & Ray - Artist & Designer Droppingstone Farm

Examples of Completed Work

Studio examples of work completed using casting

Studio examples of work completed using carved stone & wood

Studio examples of work completed using fabricated metal

Studio examples of work completed using glass

Studio examples of work completed using concrete, ceramic & enamel

Studio examples of work completed using cast concrete

Raunds Gateway Artwork

This artwork needs to both welcome people to Raunds as they drive in from the A45 and feel familiar to local people coming from within the town. For drivers approaching the town, their first impression will be the new development by the roundabout and the artwork needs to balance this by presenting a civic identity that has older roots. For local people it needs to remind them who they are.

Raunds Gateway Artwork

Raunds Gateway Artwork

We have tried to look for an image that speaks both about the past and the future, about where Raunds has come from and where it is

• going. We settled on the march of 1905 because it presents an picture of a community moving forward together. Specifically, it allows us to

commemorate Raunds’ history as a shoemaking town, but more generally the idea of a town on the march allows us to suggest Raunds moving ahead into the future.

Raunds Gateway Artwork

We began developing a design by looking at the action of walking and producing sole shapes for a pair of walking feet. We then arranged a series of these pairs into an interlocked linear pattern to evoke a group

• f people marching together. We decided to

make the number of individual soles correspond to the number of shoemaking businesses in Raunds at the time of the march in 1905.

Raunds Gateway Artwork

What is most interesting about that march is that it was not organised by a

• union. It did not express a stand-off between workers and management, but

rather all classes coming together as a single community to march to London and make their voice heard.

Raunds Gateway Artwork

So we produced a design of soles marching in a line. Then, about half way along, we began to curve the line upwards, away from the

• horizontal. The idea is to give the feel of a community moving away from its origins but still acting with purpose, marching onwards and

upwards together. To reinforce this idea of changing direction, we set our marching soles within a frame with the first half of them supported from the bottom edge and the second from the top edge.

Raunds Gateway Artwork

So we arrived, quite literally, at a picture of a town on the move. Raising this framed picture up on a solid base gives it the height to be seen from a distance and also allows us to incorporate words on the base. On the front face we can put the name of the town, on the back we can put the names of the shoemaking businesses from 1905 as well as perhaps the names of all the people who took part in the march that day.

Raunds Gateway Artwork

Raunds Gateway Artwork 7 m 3 m 1 m

Raunds Gateway Artwork

We have chosen materials to give a feeling of quality to this piece. We wanted a modern brightness and optimism but communicated through materials that have associations with Raunds’ industrial past. So the soles will be cast aluminium, but with a high-gloss powder coated finish, in red. The supports will be steel but will have a forged feel to them and the way they attach to the cast soles and slot into a wooden frame will give an echo of industrial-era lasts. A base of concrete or stone will give a nod to Raunds’ earlier involvement with quarrying.

Raunds Gateway Artwork

Examples of projects that we have completed using hardwoods that can endure in the public realm and weather naturally with minimum maintenance

Raunds Gateway Artwork

This is our preferred location as it allows the artwork to lean more towards the town and become embedded into a soft landscape that is accessible by pedestrians. The following pages illustrates the different views of the artwork as you approach the junction. (the drawings are illustrative and do not allow for level changes or trees and rubbery) The exact location will need to be proven following further site investigation of services

Raunds Gateway Artwork

Raunds Gateway Artwork

Raunds Gateway Artwork

Raunds Gateway Artwork

Raunds Gateway Artwork

Raunds Gateway Artwork

A TOWN ON THE MOVE

This piece needs to both welcome people to Raunds as they drive in from the A45 and feel familiar to local people coming from within the town. For drivers approaching the town, their first impression will be the new development by the roundabout and the artwork needs to balance this by presenting a civic identity that has older

• roots. For local people it needs to remind them who they are.

We have tried to look for an image that speaks both about the past and the future, about where Raunds has come from and where it is

• going. We settled on the march of 1905 because it presents an

picture of a community moving forward together. Specifically, it allows us to commemorate Raunds’ history as a shoemaking town, but more generally the idea of a town on the march allows us to suggest Raunds moving ahead into the future. We began developing a design by looking at the action of walking and producing sole shapes for a pair of walking feet. We then arranged a series of these pairs into an interlocked linear pattern to evoke a group of people marching together. We decided to make the number of individual soles correspond to the number of shoemaking businesses in Raunds at the time of the march in 1905. What is most interesting about that march is that it was not

• rganised by a union. It did not express a stand-off between

workers and management, but rather all classes coming together as a single community to march to London and make their voice heard. So we produced a design of soles marching in a line. Then, about half way along, we began to curve the line upwards, away from the

• horizontal. The idea is to give the feel of a community moving away

from its origins but still acting with purpose, marching onwards and upwards together. To reinforce this idea of changing direction, we set our marching soles within a frame with the first half of them supported from the bottom edge and the second from the top edge. So we arrived, quite literally, at a picture of a town on the move. Raising this framed picture up on a solid base gives it the height to be seen from a distance and also allows us to incorporate words

• n the base. On the front face we can put the name of the town, on

the back we can put the names of the shoemaking businesses from 1905 as well as perhaps the names of all the people who took part in the march that day. We have chosen materials to give a feeling of quality to this piece. We wanted a modern brightness and optimism but communicated through materials that have associations with Raunds’ industrial

• past. So the soles will be cast aluminium, but with a high-gloss

powder coated finish, in red. The supports will be steel but will have a forged feel to them and the way they attach to the cast soles and slot into a wooden frame will give an echo of industrial- era lasts. A base of concrete or stone will give a nod to Raunds’ earlier involvement with quarrying.

Raunds Gateway Artwork

July 2018

Shoe manufacturers in Raunds

Adam Brothers J W Black (Robert Bass - 1874) Ernest Chambers James Chambers J H Clark (William Clark - 1874) R Coggins & Sons John Horrell & Son Walter Lawrence Neal & Gates Nene Boot & Shoe Works C E Nichols William Nichols & Sons Owen Smith & Company Regulation Boot Company John King Smith Spire Shoes St Crispin Productive Society Tebbutt & Hall Brothers Wellington Boot & Shoe Company

Raunds march organisation

116 marchers Chief - 1 Officers - 3 Cycle corps - 3 Ambulance - 1 'A' Company - 18 'B' Company - 20 'C' Company - 21 'D' Company - 16 'E' Company - 22 'F' Company (the band) - 11