northcabin – Cabin Tactics

northcabin is a temporary commissioning programme taking place in a disused operating cabin on Redcliffe Bridge, Bristol. northcabin commissions emerging artists to produce unique and ambitious artworks for the public realm. 

Sovay Berriman, Cabin Tactics, 31st May – 27th June 2008 (posters)
This commission utilised the exterior façade of the cabin with a series of A2 posters containing one of twelve symbols uniquely developed by the artist.

Through research for the commission Sovay Berriman made associations between the architectural form of the cabin and the classic dystopian novel 1984 by English author George Orwell. The amalgamation of symbols building across the cabin reinforced an atmosphere of constant surveillance. During the course of four weeks the work was on display the posters were renewed and replaced creating a layering of undecipherable language