Standing In the grounds of St John’s Innovation park, a 21-acre plot which houses several state-of-the-art office buildings designed to house businesses of varying sizes, Hatch is comprised of three large steel segments that when brought together create a fully formed 2.5 metre tall steel egg. Positioned in front of the Sir Maurice Wilkes building, from which it takes its inspiration, these cracked shell-like sculptures are adorned with dissipating markings of binary code, representing the story of the famed Cambridge-based computer scientist; Maurice Wilkes.

A sculptural art intervention that references the incubation and cultivation of these new businesses within the innovation park, Hatch’s cracked-egg form represents the birth of these new ventures.

Hand-welded from steel and sprayed with a bronze liquid metal paint on the outer – a colour matched to that of the outside of the Maurice Wilkes building – the inside of each structure has been coated with a matte black paint to allow the binary code cut-outs to appear as if glowing when looked at from within. The movement of the sun causes binary patterns to appear in shadow on the surrounding paving throughout the day.