Stig Evans

“TIMELINES” Brighton Marina opened to the public in 1979 and covers 127 acres (0.51 km2) and has a functioning harbour, residential buildings, and leisure and retail units. It is the largest man made Marina in Europe. The Public art commission formed part of ‘Phase 1’ of a new regenerative development scheme, providing 195 residential apartments with retail units underneath. Situated on the West Quay in the inner harbour the development was built on piled concrete platforms suspended over the water. Three large-scale tiled polychromatic wall artworks (90m in total) were designed to wrap around the base of the new buildings with the intention to make the structures appear suspended over the water. Taking the idea of colour change in the sea at different times of day the artworks form a type of phenomenological barcode or timeline. The ‘timelines’ consist of a sequence of colours the sea goes through in an idealised day. The size of each colour section is proportional to the time it remains that colour. Placing the buildings in context with its local environment by corresponding the artworks to sea colour the artworks are also intended to highlight sea and water pollution by referencing the Forel-Ule Scale