Unrealised Project

‘Unrealised Project’ was initially made as a proposal for a public artwork that was never made. The image is of a now demolished sixties tower block in Liverpool with William Morris designs digitally montaged onto the exterior. The work brings together the residues of the Morris decorative wallpaper and fabric designs’ utopianism juxtaposed with the modernist architectural brutalism of the tower block, turning what is normally inside outside and what is domestic and intimate, public. The montage proposes a monument to two failed utopian aspirations, the original purpose of the tower block to replace slum housing in the 1960s and Morris’ utopian designs. The image suggests there can be a better way of conceiving and constructing architectural and civic space.