About Nayan Kulkarni
Nayan is working as an integral part of the design team to provide the strategic inclusion of public art in the ongoing design development of Sadlers Farm highway improvements. It is anticipated that the involvement of an artist at an early stage in the design process will ensure complete integration into the scheme and form a benchmark for major commissions within future road infrastructure works in Essex.
For over a decade Nayan's art practice has informed a series of diverse public realm and architectural collaborations. All of his work comes out of an engagement with notions of place and experience, underpinned by his fascination with light, technology, material and architectonic structure.
His past projects have included integrated architectural interventions in the public realm, light and art elements in urban design frameworks, lighting strategies, temporary installations, landscape based sculptural interventions and public art strategies. His studio work has been shown extensively in the UK and abroad.
Recent and on-going collaborations and design partnerships include Moment Southampton, Shoal Cardiff, Cascade Derby, Nocturne Newcastle/Gateshead, Sky Mirror Birmingham, Breaking Boundaries Ashford and Blink & Shimmer Parkland Gateway Corby.
Nayan is interested in the moments where light, people, structure and space work together.
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“The sources from the concepts come from many places. However, the Essex location and scale of the proposed changes to the local landscape interest me. Inspiration is as varied as a small tyre used as a planter at the Watt Tyler Country Park and as complex as the communities that visit Pitsea Cemetery. In other words, the local landscape.”
Nayan Kulkarni
