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Colin Rose, Rain, stainless steel, water, Millennium Square, Sheffield, 2006. Commissioned by: Sheffield City Council as part of the ‘Heart of the City’ regeneration scheme
Rain was created to celebrate the newly created Millennium Square in the heart of Sheffield. It is part of a series of works relating to the importance of water to the steel industry and the development of the City. The focus of the work is a series of raindrops that spatter across the new Millennium Square. Nine mirror polished stainless steel spheres ranging in size from 800mm to 2000mm diameter have a skin of water running over their surface and sit in 3m diameter pools cut into the paving with LEDs underneath the water.
Other recently completed works by Colin Rose include You at the Genome Centre, Hinxton, Cambridge which celebrates the current research being undertaken there into the human genome, and Starball at European Institute of Bioinformatics, Cambridge. Both of these works contain hybrid elements of geometric and natural forms and are fabricated in mirror polished stainless steel to reflect and contain the viewer within in the work.
See ‘Public art in practice’ for more on Sheffield’s public art commissioning programme.
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