Only Connect
Art on telecomms cabinets around Stevenage
Artist Caroline Nelson with her first finished telecomms cabinet!
You may have started spotting some artworks appearing on Openreach and Virgin Media cabinets around Stevenage...you know, those green or black 'boxes' that you find on almost any street in any town...
Well now they are becoming canvases for new artworks by a brilliant range of Stevenage artists!
The project was initiated and is funded by Stevenage Borough Council, as a way of brightening up our town and offering a more positive and creative alternative to tagging...
So far we have transformed 13 cabinets (see gallery below), with plenty more to come in Spring 2025! We'll be adding QR codes soon and developing a trail that people can follow around the Town Centre and Old Town...
Caroline Nelson painting cabinet - by Costa, Queensway
Caroline Nelson artwork - next to Costa on Queensway
Caitlyn Bridgman with artworks - made in collaboration with children at Woolenwick Infant & Nursery School - outside the school
Caroline Nelson painting cabinet - by Costa, Queensway
We have called the project 'Only Connect', inspired by this sculpture by Angela Godfrey, unveiled in St Nicholas Churchyard in 1997. The words are drawn from 'Howards End' by E.M. Forster, who famously lived in Rooks Nest House in Stevenage as a child.
Only Connect sculpture by Angela Godfrey
This project, along with Covid the Cobra, Pride in the Hyde and more all form part of Junction 7 Creatives' growing work developing and creating public art in various locations around Stevenage.