cb1 Cambridge

Artists: Antoni Malinowski and Dryden Goodwin
Location: Cambridge

cb1 is the largest regeneration scheme to take place within the historical city of Cambridge The development of the Cambridge station area will include architectural contributions from some of Britain’s most celebrated contemporary architects and artists.

Lead artist David Cotterrell has developed a strategy for the site that offers artists to develop ambitious projects for the public realm, and contribute to the development process and presenting this to the wide range of audiences that live, work and visit the city. More than eight significant commissions are proposed for the site.

The first two major commissions are by Antoni Malinowski and Dryden Goodwin for the Bus Interchange and the Southern Entrance to the site.

Antoni Malinowski innovative ideas for the Southern Entrance to the site, involves light, texture and rhythms. Antoni's project aims to provide a connection between architecture, place and spirit of place. Antoni has identified the overwhelming characteristics of Cambridge as the medieval rhythms of the Gothic architecture and the micro- rhythms woven into the architectural details which energize and animate the larger rhythms of brick and stone. He will utilize these rhythms within his work, creating pattern through shape, colour, natural and artificial light incorporated into the buildings within the Southern Entrance.

Dryden Goodwin’s proposal relates to the Bus Interchange and the wider city of Cambridge, local and visiting travellers and their fleeting experiences with people and place. Dryden project is to work with the existing structural designs of the bus shelters and using the glass panels to present sequences of hand drawn portraits with LCD screens showing short animations of these sequences. Dryden’s portrait drawings are accompanied by fragments of the conversation between the artist and ‘sitter’, revealing a multitude of personal exchanges and stories. Recordings and drawings concentrates on a person’s face and head, and animations show the accelerated progression of these drawings, together they form an intimate and diverse social portrait of a community.

The project is commissioned by cb1, Brookgate Ltd and managed by Commissions East.