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Transient Sanctuaries
Public Art & Installation
Photography
Date
2013
The “Transient Sanctuaries” created fleeting hide-aways to be discovered within tranquillity of the Parklands in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. They formed unusual timber refuges for story-telling and nature workshops, before migrating to their next location. The intimate mobile pavilions nestled amongst the newly-created lush gardens dramatically juxtaposed with the scale of the surrounding structures.
The mobile pavilions are the legacy of artist and designer Natasha Reid’s installation for the Celebrating Sanctuary festival held on the South Bank in June 2013. They were constructed temporarily as part of her art/architecture/advocacy project, an “Embassy for Refugees”. As the legacy to the installation, the experimental timber pavilions will have a continued afterlife, adapting to bring unexpected spaces of refuge and sanctuary to local communities in a variety of contexts.
