Commission to undertake extensive building-wide artwork installation at The Exchange Building at Colworth Science Park, a joint venture between Unilever plc and Goodman plc.

End-to-End 2-year project included: concept planning, artwork creation from my original © photography developed onsite, artwork production and installation liaison.

Twenty-two artworks spread across large, wall-mounted, acrylic panels and full-height vinyl graphics.

Theme: Abstraction of innovative processes and machinery undertaken at Unilever’s R&D site. Centred around ice cream and tea production methods and popular brands such as Magnum and Lipton’s.

Over a number of days I was allowed access to a variety of restricted spaces to create source imagery from what I saw. Details of machines and natural products in various stages of development and testing.

From there I created a number of abstract and bold artworks from selected images; adding colour and texture to patterns and shapes I observed and photographed which remained unaltered. All artworks are single images with no digital compositing so each can trace a path back to one source; adding a story to what at first glance is random patterns.

A booklet was also produced to accompany the installation, telling the story behind the artwork for both education and appreciation.

Update - May 2026

This project is dedicated to the life of Dr Sally Ann Forsyth OBE DSc (1962 - 2026) the CEO of Goodman/Unilever JV who brought forward The Exchange Building in 2010-2011 and with whom I worked so closely concept/inception to final installation of this work.

She was a joy and inspiration to work with, providing support and collaborative critique to make the installation such a success, choosing a piece (image 3, to rhs of lift) as her parting gift in 2013 when she left to become the CEO of Norwich Research Park.

RIP