Chester Designed by Nature: Spring Blooms - Crossroads Honeycomb

Located at Chester’s famous Cross, where the four historic streets of Bridge St, Eastgate St, Northgate St and Watergate St meet, the Crossroads Honeycomb reflects the beautiful simplicity of nature’s repetitive patterns. Based on honeycomb shapes, the work is found draping across some of the city’s famous architecture and filling in the spaces between. Expanding from a central point, it will reflect the bustle of the hive in the city’s most popular meeting landmark.

Artist Bex Knight is a scenographer and artist from the West Midlands. Having graduated with a degree in Design for Performance in the summer of 2021, she is just beginning to explore the creative world as a freelance artist. Bex’s work has predominantly been exploring connecting the artwork to its public space, often focused on using natural materials, as most recently demonstrated by her "Hand in Nature" sculpture in the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall.

Funding to provide the services in this project is provided by the Welcome Back Fund (WBF). WBF is managed by Her Majesty’s Government and is supported by the European Regional Development Fund. 

The project is receiving more than £300,000 of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (and in London the intermediate body Greater London Authority) is the Managing Authority for European Regional Development Fund. Established by the European Union, the European Regional Development Fund helps local areas stimulate their economic development by investing in projects which will support innovation, businesses, create jobs and local community regenerations. For more information visit https://www.gov.uk/european-growth-funding.