The Pecking Bird by Gary Hume joined other pieces of public art, such as Antony Gormley’s men, in Regents Place in October this year.

This 20-panel painting which stands 14 metres high and 9 metres wide is located on the corner of Brock Street and the Hampstead Road, 17 metres above the ground.

Gary Hume (b 1962) lives and works in Camden and upstate New York. He represented Britain at the 1999 Venice Biennale, is a Turner Prize nominee and recently had a successful solo exhibition at Tate Britain.  This giant bird is Hume’s first piece of public art and is in his characteristic bold painting style, given extra luminosity by the use of gloss paint on aluminium.

The bird and other natural world motifs pervade Hume’s work, and the design of Pecking Bird reminds us of the birdlife to be found nearby in Regent’s Park, and also on the green roofs of Regents Place itself, including the endangered Black Redstart.

Linked to Monday Mellow Yellow.