Lorna Green - Meet, Sit and Talk

Lorna Green is a sculptor and environmental artist based in Cheshire, who works in both urban and rural environments nationally and internationally. Her public art installations can be permanent or temporary and are often interactive. She undertook her MPhil at the University of Leeds and was a visiting lecturer in the School of Fine Arts, History of Arts and Cultural Studies from 1990 to 1997. In 1995 she was commissioned to create a site-specific sculpture for the Chancellor's Court; Meet, Sit and Talk is made up of 3 stone circles, each stone bearing a rectangle of polished granite reflecting the sky and surrounding environment. Green explains the sculpture 'is intended to be used - for sitting, for meeting at and to create a socially interactive space' and students can be seen lunching and revising among the stones on sunny days. Green redesigned the whole area in collaboration with landscape architect Allan R. Ruff, who created a garden path recalling the flow of a river, the planting changing shape and colour as the seasons pass.