Water Works was a large-scale public art commission for Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Asphalt Art Initiative, created in partnership with Glasgow City Council and Civic Engineers to coincide with COP26.
Installed outside Anderston Station in Glasgow, the artwork transformed the ground plane and columns beneath the M8 into a colourful route through a previously overlooked public space. The work was inspired by Glasgow’s relationship with rain, water runoff and the need for more joyful, useful urban spaces.
The project combined public artwork, wayfinding, benches and planting, including a rain garden designed to support biodiversity and help manage surface water. A very Glasgow kind of challenge: too much rain, too much concrete, and a very good excuse for a giant graphic intervention.
