Monchelsea Park

Creating a more connected and focused development

FrancisKnight were appointed by Redrow Homes to produce a public art delivery plan for Monchelsea Park, Maidstone.  The delivery plan supports a full planning application for a prospective residential development of 302 dwellings (total of which 211 private and 91 affordable dwellings) at Monchelsea Place, Maidstone, Kent. 

Monchelsea Place is historically agricultural meadowland.  A typical Kentish landscape, it benefits from mature trees, hedgerow boundaries and abundant wildlife. The site is flanked to the west by Bicknor Wood, which is a designated ancient woodland and close to Otham, a small parish. The existing ecology and landscape have influenced the approach for the public art, in particular the established trees and new village green both offering focal points and a place to site artwork to aid connectivity throughout the development. 

Kent-based sculptor Jason Mulligan was appointed as the Lead Artist.  Jason is a contemporary sculptor specialising in stone and has been involved in the fabrication and installation of a wide variety of public art projects across the UK and Eire.  As part of the project, Mulligan provided a hands on sculpture workshop with nearby school, Langley Park Primary Academ, delivering two workshops with students in Year 6.

The final artworks titled ‘What We Left Behind’, were inspired by research around the Iron Age and Roman pottery.

As Jason, comments: “What was left behind by a previous generation of people, comprising of fragments of pottery has now been reimagined and made whole again in this site-specific sculpture for Monchelsea Park. Immortalised in stone and now suggesting a new gathering, standing together, possibly in conversation and with an everchanging outlook and view towards the future.”

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