Gordon Young

Gordon Young is a visual artist
who focuses on creating art for the public domain. His work ranges from sculptures to typographic pavements for places as disrelated as government headquarters and village squares. The common denominator for all projects is the basis of relevance to the surroundings.

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Sculpture for the park at an entrance of the new Government Communication Head Quarters in Cheltenham. Nine large glacial granite boulders have been worked and lettered in individual ways that refer to different forms of communication. Each stone has a different characteristic and is covered with code, ciphers, encrypted messages, mysterious symbols, languages or prayer, etc.

In collaboration with:
Typography – Why Not Associates.
Implementation – Russell Coleman.