Harrison Park is a new 65 bed Extra Care Residential Facility by Riverside UK in partnership with Hull City Council and Wates Living Spaces. I was commissioned by Riverside and RKL Art Consultants to produce digitally printed glazing vinyl and bespoke furniture and wall mounted works.
Croft Goode Architects, Re-Form Landscape Architects, VGL

http://christophertipping.co.uk/category/harrison-park/

The Glazing Vinyl Artworks are presented as a series of abstract & figurative elements based upon a number of historic land maps, including the 1816 plan of Cottingham Common showing historic field patterns, each of which is annotated with the names of the individual landowner and /or tenant farmer.

The Inclosure Act of 1766 transformed this ill-drained common meadow and pasture, which was subject to seasonal flooding from the tidal River Hull, into a landscape of sluices, dykes, drains and ditches, the names of which, will be familiar to many of you now.

The 1886 hand drawn map of Coldharbour Farm, on North Carr Lane -now Orchard Park Road, in the collection of the Hull History Centre, shows the individual fields held by the tenant farmer, which were farmed until the new estate was built in 1963. This new Extra Care Facility on Hall Road, part of the Orchard Park Estate, sits within the original boundary of the farm.

It is this historic landscape and community which provides a ‘frame’ of support and a visual reference for the artworks, reflecting the fact that there has been a continuous system of land & water management and farming, in turn supporting a community on this site since medieval times.