Congratulations to LSBU student Ewan Coleman for his stunning flower design inspired by Linder’s Art on the Underground commission The Bower of Bliss at Southwark tube station.

I set this project up with the BA (Hons) photography department at LSBU with the brief for Year 1 Photography students to submit an image for a poster design considering one or more of the key themes Linder has focused on in her work:

Mapping a vertical history of Southwark;
The station interior inspired by 18th Century notion of the English landscape garden;
The station as a place of peace and tranquility, a refuge from urban life;
The histories, myths and fables of women based in Southwark;
A picture of empowerment for women everywhere.

I short-listed the submissions with LSBU’s Senior Lecturer Adam Brown and Art on the Underground Curator Kiera Blakey. The final design was chosen by artist Linder. This is what she said about the designs:

“I was delighted to see the work of the five shortlisted artists! I felt that even though I was just looking at one example of their work, I got some sense of each student as an individual who in turn responded to the brief in their unique way.”

Linder felt that Ewan’s design would work especially well in relation to her artwork, and would be noticeable to passing customers against advertising whilst reading well from a distance.

Ewan’s poster design will be outside Southwark tube station until the end of this month and Linder’s commission is up until October 2019. For more information visit here

Ewan Coleman’s Poster Design Monstrous Flower