A RichTea Projects commission undertaken with Amanda Westbury, 'Love this Place' is a series of installations reflecting the four histories of the St John's development in Chelmsford. Originally a Napoleonic Barracks, the site became a workhouse and then St John's Hospital. The area has now been developed by Linden Homes with some original buildings remaining and sympathetically re-purposed into apartments and houses.

The installations are divided into four sections as shown below on the commemorative postcards designed and produced for all the new residents. The entrance signage has been designed to reflect the medical background of the land with three slick panels in a transluscent white acrylic showing a timeline from the early 1800's until the last babies born at the maternity wing of the hospital. Three old fashioned finger posts across the development point to spaces in time and their relevant years, and in the lage pocket park you can find objects from each era in the form of brass inserts into the paving. Finally, along the curved wall a series of texts found on the white boards and across the hospital walls at demolition, have been reproduced onto grey discs and grouped across the red brick wall.

A series of postcards were designed to reflect each element of the public artwork installations. These were delivered to each new resident on the development.

Click to enlarge each postcard to read about the different elements in more detail.