Fig. 1. Detail of Tom Denny’s commission at Gloucester Cathedral.
Plans to install a £100,000 stained glass window in a new bus station in Gloucester have been approved. A condition of the planning approval for the station was that it included a piece of public artwork. The window is scheduled to be created by artist Tom Denny, a designer of international merit already responsible for beautifully successful stained glass at Gloucester Cathedral.
Some feel that the cost of the artwork is excessive in a ‘cash-strapped environment’, but supporters of the project have said that its cost is a very small part of the overall build, budgeted at £7.5m, whilst Leader of Gloucester City Council, Paul James, has pointed out that it may also “potentially help” the council in its ambition of being City of Culture in 2025.