Window Wanderland 2022
In January 2022, Cambridge BID brought the Window Wanderland community arts project to Station Road for the first time. Station Road is a key gateway into Cambridge for many including tourists and commuters.
We commissioned four artists to design and decorate ground floor windows of office blocks in Station Road.
Loïs Cordelia
(50/60 Station Road)
Loïs specialises in intricate scalpel paper-cuts, and her artwork balances precision with free-flowing energy. Until the Covid pandemic, she created most of her art live in public, regularly taught workshops and performed live art demonstrations along with commentary and talks. She now focuses on bespoke commissions and community arts projects and still shares behind-the-scenes insights through her YouTube channel.
For her Window Wanderland artworks, Loïs has interpreted three iconic Cambridge sights: the Fitzwilliam Museum, Botanic Gardens, and Bridge of Sighs.
Adam Bridgland
(50 / 60 Station Road, WeWork building)
Adam is a Cambridgeshire-based artist, with work exhibited around the world and in local collections. His depictions of identity and belonging, nostalgia and emotion give to his work a hugely personal aspect, and are influenced by a graphic and visual tradition that is quite specific to Britain.
Adam’s windows celebrate Cambridge United Football Club and the extraordinary achievements of the team during the last year. Adam says, “the central text is my own, focusing on the positivity that a new day can bring, a message that anyone can relate and believe in. Every Morning is flanked by two comments taken from Mark Bonner, the Cambridge United manager, one describing their promotion success in May 2021 and the other following the team's historic victory against Newcastle United in the FA Cup Third Round on the 8th January 2022. The colours used reference the famous yellow and black of the team's home football kit”.
Anna Doherty
(Clayton Hotel Cambridge)
Anna is a Cambridge-based illustrator, with nine children’s books in her repertoire and an interest in science illustrations and women in STEAM.
Anna’s windows celebrate Cambridge through its literature. “Our city has a strong connection to books through its history, many libraries, and publishing house (Cambridge University Press). I wanted to combine the joy of reading, Cambridge-in-a-book, and Cambridge's culture of literature by making a window based on books by authors who either are from or who lived/studied in the city.”
Lucy Gough
(22 Station Road, Mott MacDonald)
Lucy lives and works in Cambridgeshire has exhibited widely in the UK as well as completing commissions. Her prints use simple graphic lines and bold colour blocks to form a coherent style that has come to define her artistic practice. Her most recent work draws inspiration from a variety of sources including architecture and geometry.
About Window Wanderland:
Window Wanderland is a UK-wide community arts project encouraging households, shops and public buildings to decorate their front windows with colourful displays of lights and art materials.
Cambridge City Council ran the Cambridge Window Wanderland event, from January 10th-23rd, 2022.
Creative Cambridge residents also decorated their windows as part of this project, view the interactive map to find out which streets took part.
Thanks to our building partners for being part of this project: Cushman & Wakefield and WeWork, Mott MacDonald, Clayton Hotel Cambridge.
