I worked to create an inhouse staff group who could engage with the commissioning process to identify artists for commissions within the new HMRC headquarters in Newcastle in 2004.

The client was committed to encourage the creativity of staff when they moved into new office accommodation at Benton Park View, Newcastle upon Tyne, which was designed by Sir Michael Hopkins and Partners. Working in partnership with Commissions North and the staff steering group, a series of contemporary artworks were commissioned. There were four artists involved in the project: Effie Burns produced a series of cast glass architectural forms for each office atrium; Jo Coupe took wildflowers from the surrounding site and transformed them into fine bronze casts which refer to Victorian botanical illustrations;  Diane Welford collected the staff’s doodled 'thought forms' and reinvented them as miniature bronze sculptures; and glass artist and writer Dominic Fondé asked staff to keep diaries and then etched individual entries onto 24 blown glass vessels.