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Culross Vanishes, by Anne Howesen |
Change at King's Cross
IT’s like a blank canvas, slowly being filled in by architects.
And how the 67-acre railway lands – essentially a large new town in the heart of King’s Cross – will look is the topic of a new exhibition starting this week.
Whether it is much-needed development and regeneration or a missed opportunity to restore and renovate the area depends on your political hue.
But for artist Anne Howeson, who has lived close to the site for many years, whatever the outcome of the dumper trucks and cranes and diggers, it is an inspiration.
The Royal College of Art lecturer is showing her work in conte, crayon and pencil, at Kings Place in York Way. The exhibition marries studies she has made of King’s Cross as it exists now and in the past, with vividly imagined and fantastical details of how it could look when the builders leave. “It is more an imaginative exploration of what King’s Cross means,” she says.
Howeson’s credits include spells lecturing at Central St Martins, who are moving to the Granary buildings in King’s Cross, and the Camberwell College of Art.
“I have wondered what will be in the new landscape,” she says. “It concerns both what is going and has gone, and celebrates what is still there, and creating a fictional future.” She admits to mixed feelings over the building project. “I think I am typical of a lot of people who live near by,” she says.
“I feel a mixture of both excitement and ambivalence. I want to see some change but certainly not overdevelopment.”DAN CARRIER |
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