Art, Research & Adventure
Bath
A installation commissioned to reflect the building's unique context and purpose.
Client: The University of Bath
Photography: Dom Moore
A permanent, building-wide installation responding to the meeting of culture and academia on the University of Bath's campus. The installation is encountered in many different places throughout the building, with each location presenting varying expressions of a common visual language.


The Edge was an arts and creativity hub informed by the context and research of the University of Bath, up until its untimely closure during the coronavirus pandemic. The Edge encouraged collaborations between the arts and research, providing a place where artists, audiences, researchers and academics can find new perspectives and fertile ground to showcase new thinking and ideas.




At The Edge mechanical engineers met artists interested in moving structures, architects work with the arts to shed new light on the nature of play and how architecture influences it, people bring together inventing and engineering expertise to create artworks of scientific complexity.




The Edge commissioned Smith & Lewarne because they wanted to represent these collaborations visually. The permanent installation is located throughout the building.


We utilised the collaborative nature of the building within the installation by developing an abstracted system where the images could be read across the different disciplines as a starting point for future conversations.




The unfortunate closure of the Edge has not meant the end of the building however, and the installation remains visible to visitors to the Students' Union who now occupy the building.