Bromsgrove School

Locharbriggs sandstone, 2000

Breeze’s exhibition work with its emphasis on content caught the attention of Richard Slawson of Associated Architects in Birmingham in 2000. A new ADT building was nearing completion at Bromsgrove School and needed to be named and a shield carved. With the encouragement of the architect Breeze was able to develop this basic requirement and find an apposite quotation which summed up the ethos of the art department and the school in general. The lettering was carved in situ and the shield brought to site and installed. Breeze was careful to ensure that the layout of the lettering and shield fitted into the overall design of the building. With a similar philosophy to that within his work at the Glasgow High Court, Breeze was keen for the quotation to speak to the teachers as well as the pupils. The wording from Paul Klee says:

Man is not finished. One must be ready to develop, open to change and, in one’s life, an exalted child: a child of creation and the creator.