You’ve probably read in the papers that we’ve recently been doing some work with local artist Gary Hindley at Park Hill in Sheffield.

Gary, whose work can be viewed here, is a local lad who watched our progress at Park Hill carefully. As soon as he saw the façade come down, he saw the ideal opportunity to display his artwork within the building’s bare frame. He swiftly contacted our office and earlier this year (with snow underfoot) we toured the building and discussed his initial thoughts.

What really caught our attention was that he wanted to display faces of people connected to Park Hill – choosing key figures (such as the famous caretaker Grenville Squires) and unknown characters from 1960s footage of the scheme who had once lived there.

Urban Splash gave Gary some ‘studio’ space (see him working in it here) created from the original garage block. In it he set about creating his masterpieces, working with our site manager Lee Taylor to ensure that his vision could be safely installed.

Grenville and the mysterious ‘woman in the curlers’ have been staring down on the City for a couple of weeks now, with two more ‘faces of Parkie’ soon set to join them.