Regent's Place is a 13-acre, fully managed mixed-use campus in London's West End occupied by nearly 20,000 workers and residents.

Regent's Place commissioned Artiq to develop a sculptural intervention to create a focal point for the bustling square in the heart of the campus and to celebrate the launch of their biodiversity focus for Summer 2018.

Working closely with the team at British Land, Artiq procured a work of public art to reflect the creativity, innovation and energy of a mixed-use development and to provide a stimulus to support their educational outreach activities for local schoolchildren and residents.

Launch by Rebecca Newnham was the perfect work of art for this project. Predominately working as a sculptor and designer, Rebecca's work explores scientific ideas, life cycles and botanical forms, with sculptures that consider growth, propagation and seed distribution as well as flight, energy and the transference of matter.

She incorporates sustainability as a core part of her process, reusing glass bottles to create an innovative aggregate for her sculptures and to provide a handmade glass skin that can be seen as a feature in many of her pieces.

The sculpture represents the energy required to elevate a swan from a static position into the air.

Featuring a steel skeleton, silver mirror and grey, silver and black enamelled glass, the work bristles with energy, movement and light, providing an elegant visual representation of the dynamicity of the development and beautifully reflecting the sunlight and surrounding nature to create a unique focal point of engagement and inspiration for the community of Regent's Place.