STILL LIFE

At the entrance to the Chineham Shopping Centre, on the Basingstoke to Reading road, is Still Life by Peter Randall-Page.  Carved from Kilkenny limestone, the sculpture consists of three components, each representing an endangered species - the shell of the Vertigo Aangustior snail, the chrysalis of the swallowtail butterfly, and the fruit of the spindle tree.  The artist was keen to blur the line between botany and zoology and explore the internal energy of objects at rest. Still Life was commissioned by Taylor Woodrow, the developers of Chineham Shopping Centre, to celebrate the European Year of the Environment. Hampshire County Council and Southern Arts supplied additional funding.