Lauren Curl, Ed Elliott, Paula Morison and Madge
'Wall With A View'
This was a collaboration between the artists – an ever changing, 26 metre long hoarding on the edge of a regeneration site at one end of the Cardiff Bay Barrage Coast Path.
The wall is host to a mass of poetry randomly created by passers-by freely interacting with the large magnetic words. The words connect with Cardiff and the Bays history in the original form of three texts, the first extracted from the poem ‘Grey’ by Grahame Davies; the second from the poem ‘Cardiff Born’ by Mererid Hopwood and the third from the lyrics in ‘Diamonds are forever’ by Shirley Bassey.
Ed emailed us to meet him at the wall during the Cardiff Design Festival. He thought we’d be interested in seeing it as a talking point for future collaboration. We missed the meeting, not once but twice (Sorry again Ed!) but finally headed there early one morning for some poetic intervention our-selves. ‘Wall With A View kind of teased us. Time passed, we were there for hours intrigued, contemplative, thoughtful, imaginative, playful and pretty nostalgic. We left as some passer-by intervened too. Who said the art of communication is dead?
Artists commissioned by Safle in association with Cardiff Harbour Authority.
