the building

From his first conceptual drawings for NERAM's Stage Two Development the architect, Colin Still, allowed for and indeed insisted that the outside of NERAM should be a space which needed artistic input.

He went on to create the terraces and the arcs and he employed materials which would provide a suitable "canvas" for public art (sculpture) to be commissioned in the future.

He allowed space to create work that would sit comfortably or react/interact with the nature and physical structures that surrounds it.

This philosophy was applied to all aspects of the building: The Cafe and The Artist Studio were built not only to cater for people's activities inside, but also to act as transition spaces where people see beyond the walls and move between inside and outside; the galleries are spaces which not only display works but create a mosaic of art beyond the glass and metal, on to the concrete and out into the open air, the natural grass and scattered trees.