Art, Industry and Climate Change: The 450 Tonne Art Project - Patrick O’Mahony - Part 2

This episode is the second part of our conversation with Patrick O’Mahony, Creative Director of NEWSUBSTANCE. 

This episode is all about their ambitious project ‘See Monster’ in Weston-Super-Mare. Part of the Unboxed Festival, it’s an old gas platform (think ‘oil rig’) converted into a public space to inspire conversations around climate change and renewables.

We went there to film these two episodes and the sheer scale of the project blew me away.

It is one of the greatest pieces of industrial theatre that I have ever seen and a wonderful example of British creativity. 

Listen to our first episode with Patrick to get a wider backstory on him and his company NEWSUBSTANCE.

In this episode we discuss:

• How See Monster came to be.
• Where the creative vision started.
• How do you transport a gas platform from the Netherlands to Weston-Super-Mare?
• Scoping a project on this scale. 
• How will sustainability and creative design develop in the future?
• Where did the idea for the waterfall come from?
• The future of pop-up installations

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