Powder coated aluminium
Commissioned for Accelerator Park, Cambridge by Canmoor and Greater Cambridge Shared Planning Department.
Quantum Frequency is a permanent public artwork created for Accelerator Park, a science and innovation campus in Sawston, Cambridge. The work transforms the site’s boundary into a continuous visual system, using abstraction to reflect the energy, curiosity, and interconnected thinking that underpin scientific research.
Drawing inspiration from retro scientific diagrams, early computing graphics, and vintage textbooks, the artwork develops a language of looping forms, nodes, and pathways. These motifs suggest atoms, orbits, data streams, and networks of knowledge, flowing rhythmically across a series of large-scale, laser-cut aluminium panels. Rather than presenting a single fixed image, the work unfolds sequentially, encouraging movement, perception, and repetition.
The project was developed through a research-led, site-specific process, including workshops with pupils from Icknield Primary School and members of the local Sawston community. These conversations revealed science as something playful, interconnected, and embedded in everyday life, and those perspectives were distilled into the final composition.
The title Quantum Frequency refers both to the smallest units of energy and to ideas of rhythm, resonance, and shared wavelengths. Together, these concepts frame the artwork as a quiet landmark — one that reflects science not only as a discipline, but as a collective human endeavour shaped by collaboration, imagination, and long-term thinking.
