Liverpool Biennial and Liverpool City Council have commissioned leading South Korean artist Koo Jeong A and Wheelscape Skateparks to design a new permanent interactive sculpture for Everton Park, the Everton Park Wheels Park, in partnership with Friends of Everton Park, the Land Trust and Liverpool Vision. The work, a wheels park for skaters and BMX bikers, will be a new public space for the city and will have a section at its centre that glows in the dark.
Since February 2014, Koo Jeong A and the designers from Wheelscape Skateparks have been working with local young people in Everton, North Liverpool and city skaters to devise a new wheels park. Familiar skating forms and features have been combined with new sculptural elements to create a unique space for experimentation. The design responds to its immediate surroundings, as well as drawing on Koo Jeong A’s references to diamond shapes and forms conceived through the artist’s interpretation of the area. In addition to the fluorescing central bowl designed by Koo Jeong A, the wheels park will also incorporate a training area and BMX track.
This commission is part of a long-term commitment by Liverpool Biennial to work in Everton Park. Work on the project will begin in January and will launch in Summer 2015. It will be managed and maintained by The Land Trust, in conjunction with their community partners, Friends of Everton Park. This will be the flagship project of a citywide scheme by Liverpool City Council to produce and build five wheels parks in Liverpool.
Everton Park Wheels Park
Koo Jeong A and Wheelscape Skateparks
Construction commencing summer 2015
Everton Park
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