The Exeter Riddle

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My work as a public artist is about site, how I respond to that site and how the user uses that site, key elements within the work are light onto the work, absorbed by the work or through the work, texture is important as is the rythym of the piece. In Exeter a large 6.5 metre high stainless steel sculpture was opened in March 2005 based on the Exeter riddles. The 10th centrury riddles translated by Kevin Crossley Holland are written in mirror writing and then read in the reflection, the answer to the riddles are on the stainless steel spheres. The 'geoneedle' is 5metre high stone with a stainless steel cap marker for the UNESCO world heritage site the East Devon and Dorset Coastal Path. The geoneedle is sited at Orcombe point near Exmouth. Recent projects include working with Mendip AONB to create 7 information points and a generic gateway design, with input from two artists working in the community Jane Flood a storyteller and Kate Green a digital artist. Tintagel lead artist, creating a new square for the town as well as a 3 km walk along the cliffs. Michael has been appointed lead artist on the blackdown hills neroche project through to 2009