A number of people have asked me who made my neon piece 'I'M IN LOVE WITH THE MODERN WORLD'. It was NeonNeon of Farnham, Surrey
(the-original-neonneon.blogspot.com). NeonNeon is run by Nick Malyon. Nick has worked with, among others, Mona Hatoum, Cerith Wyn Evans and Tracey Emin, and did a superb job on my piece. Thanks too to the technician Stuart Harte, who positioned it inch perfect on the 99p Stores pediment (working on a very wobbly monkey tower, with much wisecracking from pavement level).
One of the things you learn when involved with any public installation is that a lot of expertise, help and favours need to be called in. So there are plenty of people I want to thank. One of them is James Brooks, who alerted me to the Street Gallery project which is responsible for the programme of art interventions in Cleveland Park Avenue. Another is the photographer Charlie Milligan. The week the installation was switched on Charlie was particularly busy. Even so he crossed London on a very cold evening , at very short notice, and took endless trouble over the photographs.
Again, Ashley McCormick, curator of the Street Gallery project, has put in far more time than she was required to, both before and during the installation, coming up with any number of helpful and creative suggestions. Sam Neal, programme manager, physical regeneration, with the London Borough of Waltham Forest, has been a consistently positive presence - and thanks of course to 99p Stores who have made their building available for all the Street Gallery projects.
There are many others - and they all contributed to making the project great fun - and doable!
